World Cup Fever

• Friday, 2nd June 2006
• Don’t forget your ongoing responsibility to ensure equal opportunities in your workplace.
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The new pensions whitepaper

• Friday, 26th May 2006
• The state pension age will rise to 68 by 2044 and a restoration of the link to earnings is planned for 2012.
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Length of service as a factor in pay awards

• Friday, 19th May 2006
• Length of service is commonly used as a factor, sometimes the main one, when reviewing an employee’s salary.
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Retirement at 68?

• Friday, 12th May 2006
• As part of a proposed restoration of the link between the state pension and earnings, the state pension age is to be raised to 68
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Indirect Discrimination - A Battle of Statistics

• Friday, 5th May 2006
• Indirect sex discrimination occurs where the effect of a particular practice is detrimental to a higher proportion of one sex than the other.
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Enjoy the Bank Holiday…if you get one…

• Friday, 28th April 2006
• One of the most troublesome ‘simple’ questions in employment law is ‘what bank holidays do part time staff get?
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“We can no longer trust you…”

• Friday, 21st April 2006
• Dismissal letters for gross misconduct.
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Collective Redundancies

• Tuesday, 28th March 2006
• The DTI is now consulting on making a requirement in statute not to send out dismissal notices until 30 / 90 days have passed since the formal notification to the Secretary of State.
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TUPE – some things don’t change

• Friday, 24th March 2006
• There has been much discussion recently about the coming changes this April to TUPE and in particular the automatic application of the Regulations where there is a service provision change.
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Grievances – employees must be clear

• Friday, 17th March 2006
• The question of what constitutes a “grievance” under the 2004 Dispute Resolution Regulations has produced a recent glut of cases.
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