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January 2017 news

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on January 2017 news

Happy New Year and welcome to our first Newsletter of 2017. We hope you are all surviving the cold and managing to still maintain just one or two of your New Year’s resolutions. If one of those resolutions is to... Read more


Case update (2): Redundancy – reliance on mobility clauses

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Case update (2): Redundancy – reliance on mobility clauses

Summary: Can a contractual mobility clause enable an employer to avoid dismissing employees for redundancy? Yes, but only if the terms of the mobility clause and the manner in which the employer operates the clause are reasonable. The EAT’s decision... Read more


Government reforms (1): Gender Pay Gap

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Government reforms (1): Gender Pay Gap

The Government has launched a new website, available here , which allows the public to view the gender pay gap by profession.  The website suggests that the highest pay gaps are in the construction and finance industries. There is also an... Read more


New guidance (2): Revised Code of Practice on Industrial action

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on New guidance (2): Revised Code of Practice on Industrial action

A draft revised Code of Practice on industrial action ballots and notice to employers has been published, available here . The revisions relate to new requirements that will be introduced by the Trade Union Act 2016. These concern ballot turnouts and... Read more


New guidance (3): Access to Work – Eligibility letter published

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on New guidance (3): Access to Work – Eligibility letter published

The Government has published the Access to Work eligibility letter for employees and employers, available here . The letter is intended to assist employees who consider that they might be entitled to support under the scheme. The Access to Work scheme... Read more


New guidance (1): ACAS Guidance on Social Exclusion

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on New guidance (1): ACAS Guidance on Social Exclusion

ACAS has published Guidance, available here , that seeks to raise awareness of the cost of social exclusion in the workplace.  According to the Guidance, social exclusion at work can have a negative impact on employees’ performance levels, confidence and wellbeing.... Read more


Case update (1): Unfair dismissal – re-engagement

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Case update (1): Unfair dismissal – re-engagement

Summary:  In cases of re-engagement, whose belief in the breakdown of trust and confidence between employer and employee is the most critical; the Tribunal’s or the employer’s? The employer’s, says the EAT in United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v... Read more


Government reforms (2): Apprenticeship levy

January 31, 2017 12:00 am Published by Comments Off on Government reforms (2): Apprenticeship levy

What do we already know? We updated you in our October 2016 Newsflash Apprenticeship levy that HMRC had published the first set of draft regulations for the calculation, payment and recovery of the Apprenticeship Levy, for a period of technical consultation, available  here... Read more