Have a question? Call us on 0800 1979 345
A nine year old girl has received a £5.5 million compensation payout after Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust failed to spot she had meningitis when she was 8 months old and sent her home with a 39.9 degree temperature.
A reminder that all employees with six months’ service now have the right to request flexible working under new rules which came into force on 30 June this year.
The essential point for employers to remember is that requests are just that. They can be refused on a wide number of grounds, including the cost to the business or the inability to cover work.
Discrimination law in the UK could expand to include obesity. Current equality laws do not protect people who are discriminated against because of their size or weight. But this could change if the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decides in favour of a Danish childminder who says he was sacked for being too fat.
Criminal convictions which have become ‘spent’ (elapsed) do not usually need to be disclosed to prospective employers. However, there is an exception where the job being applied for involves working with children and vulnerable adults. In those cases all convictions and cautions, regardless of how old or how serious, must be brought to light.
There have been various cases on whether workers who are required to be ‘on-call’ or to sleep at their place of work are entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for those hours. They may not actually be working but they are there and available to work if and when needed.
The law isn’t entirely clear on what is and isn’t ‘time-work’ for the purposes of the NMW regulation. The Esparon case may help clarify it a little.
A new rule applies to TUPE transfers that take place on or after 1 May.
It used to be the case that a transferor had to give a transferee employee liability information 14 days before the transfer. That information includes the names of transferring employees and details of any disciplinary action taken against them or legal action they have brought.
After months of speculation and anticipation, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has spoken. It’s now clearly the case that where a worker’s pay includes an intrinsic element of commission, that commission must be taken into account when calculating their holiday pay.
A very important change in employment law slipped into the statute books recently.
From 6th May, anyone who wants to bring a claim in an employment tribunal must first submit an early conciliation form alerting Acas to the case. It’s followed by a period of talking through the issues and trying to avoid getting the tribunal involved in the dispute.
The controversy that is zero-hours contracts rumbles on. Despite some calls for banning them, the government has issued its latest indication of support for these arrangements which it says have a place in the labour market.
A man and two women had to be taken to hospital following a collision during rush hour.