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Posted on Thu, 17/05/2012 - 11:05am
The snappily-named Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive became law in England last May, but to the relief of most businesses, the Information Commissioner’s Office allowed a 12 month period of grace to allow website owners time to comply. That period of grace expires on 25th May 2012 and...
Posted on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 9:18am
Tom Gray of Actons corporate team has advised BioCity company and chemical manufacturer Promethean Particles, on its £500,000 investment funding. The finance will allow the company to double in size and is required to upscale its business, as Promethean looks to service newly-acquired clients in...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:26am
In Samsung Electronics v Monte D’Cruz, the EAT has determined that when a redundant employee is applying for a newly created role the employer can appoint ‘the best person for the job’ even if that involves a degree of subjectivity. Samsung re-organised its print division. The Claimant was...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:25am
In Zarkasi v Anandita, the EAT determined that a worker cannot enforce employment rights dependent on a contract of employment if the contract was illegal from the outset. The Claimant was an Indonesian domestic worker recruited from Indonesia to work for a family in the UK. In order to enter...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:24am
The Advocate General of the CJEU has given an Opinion in USA v Nolan that the trigger point for the duty to inform and consult about collective redundancies must be determined by the national court in the light of CJEU guidance. The case concerned a claim on behalf of civilian employees at a US...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:23am
The Court of Appeal has upheld a tribunal’s finding that a redundancy dismissal, the timing of which was motivated to avoid the cost of an enhanced pension if the employee was still employed at the age of 50, was justified age discrimination. The Court did however state that while the age...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:22am
The government has launched a Call for Evidence to consider whether the ACAS Code of Practice and current dismissal rules are too onerous, complex or misunderstood. Please see the BIS press release for further information http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=423725&...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:20am
There have been a number of changes to employment law in April: On 1 April Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Additional Paternity, Adoption Pay and Maternity Allowance increased from £128.73 to £135.45 per week. On 6 April Statutory Sick Pay increased from £81.60 to £85.85 per...
Posted on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:17am
A worker who meets the requirements listed in a job advertisement, but is unsuccessful in getting the job, is not necessarily entitled to disclosure of information indicating whether the employer engaged another applicant at the end of the recruitment process. In Meister v Speech Design Carrier...
Posted on Mon, 05/03/2012 - 4:41pm
In the recent case of Readman v Devon Primary Care Trust, the EAT determined that an employee can in rare circumstances act reasonably in refusing an offer of suitable alternative employment even where the Employment Tribunal concludes that a reasonable employee would have accepted the offer. Mrs...
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