Employment Law Newsletter

Employment Matters is our employment law newsletter, produced on a monthly basis and emailed to subscribers.
If you would like to receive this update, please email news@clarkewillmott.com 

Employment Matters - April 2013

• Redundancy selection criteria
• Restricting religion at work - the risks
• You were hired but you were NOT fired!
• The real cost of employee salary increases
• Knowing your procedural steps and following them promptly
• Maternity leave - know your facts
• Get it right from the start: Statement of particulars

Employment Matters - March 2013

• Geys v Société Générale, London Branch [2012]
• UK Border Agency - Revisions to the codes of practice for skilled migrant workers
• Department for Work and Pensions revises advice on fit notes
• Age, retirement and references!
• Overhaul of PAYE system
• You’re hired, you’re fired, you’re sued!

Employment Matters - February 2013

• Internal disciplinary hearings and right to legal representation
• More unenforceable Restrictive Covenants
• Make better informed recruitment decisions this year
• Checking your prospective employees...
• “Work for your benefits”?
• Update: Amendments to Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Employment Matters - January 2013

• What’s on in 2013?
• What are your People Management New Year Resolutions for 2013?
• Collective redundancy consultation
• When is ‘redundancy’ a legitimate reason for dismissal?
• Striking the balance between work and religion
• Pin down the termination date - termination of employment and payment in lieu of notice

Employment Matters - December 2012

• Annual review of compensation limits
• Update on employee-ownership
• New Disclosure and Barring Service
• Manager wrongfully demoted for 'gay marriage' comments on Facebook
• Winter weather measures for businesses
• Keep your restrictive covenants under review

Employment Matters - November 2012

• Thinking of dismissing an employee? Do not overlook relevant previous warnings!
• Have you ever been under pressure from a client to remove a member of your staff?
• Managing employee's extreme political views – balancing the risks
• Exemption from TUPE - single specific event or task of short term duration?
• Short-term working and lay-off - refresher
• Bringing parental leave into the 21st Century?
• Covering all bases - TUPE settlements

Employment Matters - October 2012

• Thinking of implementing a compulsory retirement age?
• Is the right to terminate work inconsistent with employee status?
• New Tribunal Fees
• Fancy becoming an 'owner-employee'?
• Prevention better than cure
• Equal pay claims can proceed to the High Court
• Can an employee be bound by restrictive covenants in an unsigned contract?

Employment Matters - September 2012

• Reasons for dismissal - principal or secondary?
• Considering the range of reasonable responses of an employer
• Sickness v holiday... the saga continues
• Manchester College v Hazel

Frequently Asked Questions/Employment law developments

• What rest breaks is a worker entitled to under statute?
• What is the national minimum wage?
• Parental leave
• Vince Cable

Employment Matters - August 2012

• Redundancy - same numbers of employees but less work
• Does an employer commit a breach of contract if it makes a 'genuine' mistake as to how much to pay an employee?
• What would happen if an employee was unfairly dismissed but before they were able to bring a claim they died?

Your Questions Answered

• Do employers have to pay Volunteers a wage?
• When is an employee entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay?
• Do student employees have to be paid through the PAYE scheme?

Employment Matters - July 2012

• The cost of equality
• Settlement agreements - a new way forward

Your Questions Answered

• In what cicumstances can employees take time off for family emergencies?
• An employee has made a "Data Subject Act Request" what information do I have to provide?

Employment Matters - May 2012

• Skeletons in the closet - discovering gross misconduct after agreeing to make a payment in-lieu of notice
• Second thoughts - Can an employee be re-disciplined for the same offence?

Your Questions Answered

• Who can accompany an employee to a disciplinary and grievance hearing?
• When should a compromise agreement be signed?

Employment Matters - April 2012

• Should employers give away information about their recruitment processes?
• Can a request for certain requirements put employees near retirement at a disadvantage?
• Sunday trading restrictions on track to be relaxed for the Olympics
• Be aware of the new rules on Apprenticeships

Employment Matters - March 2012

• 6 April 2012: It pays to know...
• Have your say...
• Dont forget - New employees from 6 April onwards - unfair dismissal protection after two years continuous employment
• The season of change - from 6 April 2012 changes to Employment Tribunal rules
• Pension changes for all employers on the horizon
• Employer's Vicarious Liability - At work or not at work, that is the question...
• Employers may be liable for assaults by junior staff against managers

Employment Matters - February 2012

• A Government consultation exercise
• Smoothing it over
• How early is too early?
• No award for lost earnings where re-engagement offer was refused
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - January 2012

• Parental leave explained...
• Recipe for good team work
• A compromise too far?
• Bad Teacher
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - December 2011

• If you don't ask...
• The reality of references
• A time for fun and festivities... and employment law issues!
• Snow day... no day?
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - November 2011

• Media Hype
• Hard times mean hard decisions...
• Flexibility...friend or foe?
• Dark nights don't necessarily mean dark days...
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - October 2011

• No more hiding behind employment contracts
• Two jobs, too hasty?
• Have a break...
• A boost for the economy... and a bonus for employers?
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - September 2011

• Ready... Get Set... Go!
• There's no such thing as a "self dismissal"...
• Rise in workplace fatalities
• Deleted does not mean unrecoverable!
• Statistics, statistics...
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - August 2011

• Riot repercussions...
• Pay cut conundrum
• The end of retirement as we once knew it
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder?
• What makes your employees tick?
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - July 2011

• What becomes of the broken hearted...
• Grasping grievances
• Objectivity, objectivity, objectivity!
• HR hints and tips
• Dates for the diary
• Spotlight on the team

Employment Matters - June 2011

• The demise of agency workers
• Daddy's left holing the baby...
• Beat the bullies
• Do you know your 'pokes' from your 'tweets'?!
• Spotlight on the team

Contact: Kevin Jones, Sharon Latham, Kate Gardner, Lindsey Bell, Marc Long