by Sam Swinstead | Nov 23, 2012 | General News
Thank you to Karen Jackson at didlaw for alerting us to this in her very useful blog. In a nutshell – businesses are no longer required to provide access to a stakeholder pension scheme & if they have less than 30 staff they also don’t need to comply...
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 21, 2012 | General News
We issue a polite word of warning to employers today…. Ensure that when you are considering disciplinary action that it is proportionate to the misconduct that you believe occurred. A Housing Trust demoted a manager for expressing his views about gay marriage...
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 19, 2012 | General News
HR Zone have an interesting blog post today about the business risks in using self employed contractors in a way that could result in either HMRC or an employment tribunal deciding that they are in fact employees....
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 17, 2012 | General News
We are pleased to report that thankfully the Court of Appeal saw sense & concluded that a breach of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act can’t be claimed when any damage to relationships or reputation that result from the dismissal are a consequence of the...
by Sam Swinstead | Nov 16, 2012 | General News
We’ve just read that a judgement expected from the Court of Appeal today may have an impact on how tribunals reach their verdicts in unfair dismissal cases. If the verdict goes in favour of the claimant, the tribunal may be required to consider whether a...
