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When military security activities are outside of the scope of the Working Time Directive (BK v Republika Slovenija (Ministrstvo za obrambo))

When military security activities are outside of the scope of the Working Time Directive (BK v Republika Slovenija (Ministrstvo za obrambo))

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on When military security activities are outside of the scope of the Working Time Directive (BK v Republika Slovenija (Ministrstvo za obrambo))

The tax implications of hybrid working arrangements

The tax implications of hybrid working arrangements

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on The tax implications of hybrid working arrangements

UK accession to Lugano Convention—is the door now closed?

UK accession to Lugano Convention—is the door now closed?

The following Arbitration news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on UK accession to Lugano Convention—is the door now closed?

Reducing the risk of COVID-19 spreading in the workplace: a practical guide for employers

Reducing the risk of COVID-19 spreading in the workplace: a practical guide for employers

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Reducing the risk of COVID-19 spreading in the workplace: a practical guide for employers

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Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)

Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)

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...

How are the post-employment notice pay (PENP) provisions applied in circumstances where the employee is (a) on long-term sickness absence and has exhausted his entitlement to sick pay, or (b) has been dismissed summarily without notice?

How are the post-employment notice pay (PENP) provisions applied in circumstances where the employee is (a) on long-term sickness absence and has exhausted his entitlement to sick pay, or (b) has been dismissed summarily without notice?

How are the post-employment notice pay (PENP) provisions applied in circumstances where the employee is (a) on long-term sickness absence and has...

Protective awards

Protective awards

Protective awardsThis Practice Note examines claims for protective awards following an employer’s failure to carry out collective redundancy...

Place of work and mobility clauses

Place of work and mobility clauses

Place of work and mobility clausesThe written statement of particulars of employment issued to a worker to comply with section 1 of the Employment...

Practice notes

Unfair dismissal remedies—general

Unfair dismissal remedies—generalCoronavirus (COVID-19): The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020...
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19th May
Practice notes

Discrimination arising from disability

Discrimination arising from disabilityThis Practice Note covers an Equality Act 2010 provision which had no equivalent under the law which applied...
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19th May
Practice notes

The early conciliation requirement

The early conciliation requirementCoronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England, Wales and Scotland during the...
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19th May
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Practice notes

No response, rejected response or claim not contested: employment tribunals

No response, rejected response or claim not contested: employment tribunalsCoronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England,...
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19th May
Practice notes

Smoking in the workplace

Smoking in the workplaceProviding a smoke-free workplace (in enclosed or substantially enclosed premises) has been obligatory in England since 1 July...
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19th May
Practice notes

Redundancy—fair procedure: individual consultation

Redundancy—fair procedure: individual consultationWhere there is no statutory obligation to consult with any existing employee representatives (see...
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19th May
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Practice notes

Time off work for antenatal appointments

Time off work for antenatal appointmentsAn employer or, where applicable, a temporary work agency or hirer, cannot unreasonably refuse to allow a...
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19th May
Practice notes

Continuity of employment

Continuity of employmentUPDATE: In its ‘Good Work Plan’ published in December 2018, the government has indicated that it will legislate to extend the...
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19th May
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Practice notes

Calculators on Lexis®PSL Employment

Calculators on Lexis®PSL EmploymentThis Practice Note explains and summarises the suite of calculators designed specifically to assist employment...
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19th May
Practice notes

Disclosure in employment tribunal proceedings

Disclosure in employment tribunal proceedingsCoronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England, Wales and Scotland during the...
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19th May
Practice notes

Definition of dismissal in unfair dismissal

Definition of dismissal in unfair dismissalTo succeed in a claim of unfair dismissal, the claimant must establish that they were dismissed by the...
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19th May
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Precedents

Draft outline script for disciplinary hearing (misconduct)

1Introductions of those present if necessary. Confirm who is taking notes and that copies of the meeting notes will be made available to the...
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19th May
Precedents

Application—additional information (further and better particulars)

[Insert date][Insert] Employment Tribunal[Insert address]To the [insert] Employment Tribunal[Insert name of case, eg X v Y]Claim Number: [insert claim...
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19th May
Precedents

ET3 grounds of resistance—unfair dismissal: protected disclosure

1Paragraph 1 of the Grounds of Claim is admitted.2As to paragraph 2 of the Grounds of Claim, it is denied that the Claimant’s colleagues were...
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19th May
Practice notes

Calculating pension loss in employment tribunal claims

Calculating pension loss in employment tribunal claimsPension loss will generally only arise in cases where an individual has lost their job and the...
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Produced in partnership with Keith Bryant QC of Outer Temple Chambers. 19th May
Practice notes

Contractual notice

Contractual noticeIn general, employers are free to give notice of dismissal at any time, unless they have expressly or impliedly agreed not to in the...
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19th May
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Practice notes

Coronavirus (COVID-19)—holiday and holiday pay

Coronavirus (COVID-19)—holiday and holiday payThis Practice Note considers issues relating to the right to holiday and holiday pay during the...
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23rd Jul
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Precedents

Letter—exercising contractual right to lay-off or impose short-time working

Letter—exercising contractual right to lay-off or impose short-time workingCORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): On 20 March 2020, the government announced the...
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23rd Jul
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Practice notes

Coronavirus (COVID-19)—sickness and other absence

Coronavirus (COVID-19)—sickness and other absenceSTOP PRESS (22/7/21): Provisions have been made to (1) amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus,...
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22nd Jul
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Practice notes

Bonus schemes

Bonus schemesBonuses can be a very effective tool to motivate and retain employees while allowing businesses to control wage costs. In certain sectors...
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19th Jul
Practice notes

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme—right to statutory redundancy and other termination payments

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme—right to statutory redundancy and other termination paymentsFor information on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...
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19th Jul
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Q&As

How is holiday leave and pay treated for term-time only staff who take a period of maternity or adoption leave which extends over school holidays?

How is holiday leave and pay treated for term-time only staff who take a period of maternity or adoption leave which extends over school holidays?The...
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19th Jul
Practice notes

National minimum wage

National minimum wageStatute guarantees a minimum hourly rate of pay to almost all adult workers.Government guidance on calculating the national...
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16th Jul
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Practice notes

Calculating a week's pay

Calculating a week's payCoronavirus (COVID-19): The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020 (Week’s Pay...
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12th Jul
Practice notes

Employment status tests—from a tax and NICs perspective

Employment status tests—from a tax and NICs perspectiveCoronavirus (COVID-19): in light of the coronavirus crisis, the government announced temporary...
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Produced in partnership with Anne Redston 8th Jul
Practice notes

Employment status—why it matters

Employment status—why it mattersCoronavirus (COVID-19): in light of the coronavirus crisis, the government announced temporary measures to support...
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Produced in partnership with Anne Redston 7th Jul
Practice notes

Understanding and improving gender and other pay gaps

Understanding and improving gender and other pay gapsCoronavirus (COVID-19): The enforcement of all gender pay gap reporting deadlines was suspended...
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6th Jul
Practice notes

IR35—off-payroll workers—practical considerations for the fee-payer

IR35—off-payroll workers—practical considerations for the fee-payerThe off-payroll IR35 regime broadly applies where:•from 6 April 2017, a public...
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6th Jul
Practice notes

IR35—off-payroll workers—practical considerations for the end client

IR35—off-payroll workers—practical considerations for the end clientThe off-payroll IR35 regime broadly applies where:•from 6 April 2017, a public...
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6th Jul
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Practice notes

IR35—the general regime

IR35—the general regimeThis Practice Note explains the general IR35 regime which applies where an individual worker provides services to an end client...
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6th Jul
Practice notes

IR35—off-payroll workers

IR35—off-payroll workersCoronavirus (COVID-19): in light of the coronavirus crisis, the government announced temporary measures to support the...
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Produced in partnership with David Smith of DLA Piper 6th Jul
Practice notes

Shared parental pay (birth)

Shared parental pay (birth)IP COMPLETION DAY: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into...
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30th Jun
Practice notes

Shared parental pay (adoption)

Shared parental pay (adoption)Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Maternity Allowance, Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption...
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30th Jun
Practice notes

Writing off loans to directors or employees

Writing off loans to directors or employeesCompanies sometimes provide loans to directors or employees as part of the reward package or on specific...
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30th Jun
Practice notes

Tax issues on the provision of loans to employees or directors

Tax issues on the provision of loans to employees or directorsCompanies sometimes provide directors or employees with low interest (or interest-free)...
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30th Jun
Practice notes

Employment-related loans—defined

Employment-related loans—definedSpecific rules in the benefits code in ITEPA 2003, Part 3 apply to 'employment-related loans' and, in certain...
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30th Jun

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Breach of statutory duty

Breach of statutory duty

Breach of statutory dutyThis Practice Note considers claims for damages for breach of statutory duty. For guidance on claims for damages for a negligent breach of duty of care outside a statutory duty, see Practice Notes:•Negligence—when does a duty of care arise?•Negligence—when is the duty of care

The commercialisation of sport

The commercialisation of sport

IP COMPLETION DAY: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. At this point in time (referred to in UK law as ‘IP completion day’), key transitional arrangements come to an end and significant

Stay of proceedings—when can you apply to stay a claim?

Stay of proceedings—when can you apply to stay a claim?

Stay of proceedings—when can you apply to stay a claim?This Practice Note considers the question of when court proceedings can be stayed. It identifies scenarios in which a party may apply for a stay of proceedings, including to allow for: a jurisdictional challenge; arbitration; an attempt to

Pre-trial and case management hearings in the Crown Court

Pre-trial and case management hearings in the Crown Court

Pre-trial and case management hearings in the Crown CourtCoronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects impacted by the Coronavirus Act 2020 (CA 2020). CA 2020, among other measures, makes provision for the extended use of live links and audio links in criminal proceedings.