Ending employment can be a challenging process, requiring careful adherence to legal obligations and best practices. This topic provides essential guidance for legal practitioners on navigating terminations, redundancies, and dismissals, ensuring compliance and minimising risk.
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The government has published proposed new benefit and pension rates for 2024 to 2025 including in respect of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory...
ET1 grounds of claim—indirect sex discrimination[Insert in para 8.2 of claim form ET1:]1The Claimant is a woman and the Respondent is [enter details,...
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving...
Constructive dismissaldismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer...
ReinstatementReinstatement is one of the orders that may be made by a tribunal under section 112 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) following a finding of unfair dismissal. For a discussion of the other remedies available, see Practice Note: Unfair dismissal remedies—general.Following a
Where an employer begins collective consultation under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, then due to a change in circumstances fewer redundancies are required and so an updated section 188 letter is sent setting out the reduced number of proposed
Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)The right to notice means a right for the employee to remain in employment for the period of notice, not simply to be paid for it. An employer will therefore often include in the contract an express right to make a payment in lieu of notice ('PILON') as an
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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