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Around about now, some parents-to-be will be thinking ahead to next April. In less than nine months’ time babies will start to be born to mothers, fathers and partners or will be placed with adopters who are entitled to a new form of shared parental leave.
The key date is 5th April 2015; babies born or placed through adoption on or after then will trigger rights for their parents to combine and divide their individual leave entitlements.
A road marking company has been successfully prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive for breaching work equipment regulations and was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,123 in costs.
There has been a significant drop in the number of claims after employment trubunal fees were introduced in July 2013.
Hall v Xerox UK
Fixed term workers have their own branch of protection against discrimination. It’s there to ensure that these workers, whose contracts are set to end on a particular date, are not (without justification) treated less favourably than permanent staff.
But, as Hall v Xerox UK illustrated, differences in treatment are sometimes
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, says that doctors and nurses must ‘say sorry’ when things go wrong to end the ‘culture of defensiveness’ which developed under Labour.
Discontent around employment tribunal fees shows little sign of abating.
After losing its application for judicial review of the decision to bring in fees, Unison reportedly plans to introduce more evidence to support its appeal.
And the word on the street is that, in light of the huge drop in the number of claims being issued, the judicial review application may be lodged afresh.
A daughter has complained to the Blackpool Victoria Hospital after her ill father was left by a taxi outside his house.
Cheshire Fire and Rescue had to be called to a scene of a collision in a Chester suburb following an accident involving three cars.
Elys v Marks & Spencer
It comes to something when you fall asleep at work.
For one employment tribunal lay member, this may have been the unfortunate reality when he was observed with his eyes closed at various points during a three-week hearing. He had been drooling and even received a nudge from the judge.