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BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: two new workplace guides and three guides updated

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: two new workplace guides and three guides updated

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’: two new workplace guides and three guides updated

Employment weekly highlights—24 December 2020

Employment weekly highlights—24 December 2020

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Employment weekly highlights—24 December 2020

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’ guidance fully updated plus four new sectors

BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’ guidance fully updated plus four new sectors

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on BEIS ‘Working safely during coronavirus’ guidance fully updated plus four new sectors

Employment weekly highlights—14 January 2021

Employment weekly highlights—14 January 2021

The following Employment news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Employment weekly highlights—14 January 2021

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Contractual redundancy payments

Contractual redundancy payments

An employee is entitled to a statutory redundancy payment when:•he has been continuously employed for not less than two years•he has been dismissed,...

Unfair dismissal remedies—general

Unfair dismissal remedies—general

Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020 (Week’s Pay Amendment Regs 2020),...

The term of trust and confidence

The term of trust and confidence

Every contract of employment is treated as containing an imposed term of trust and confidence. This requires employers and employees not to conduct...

Letter—from employer placing employee on garden leave

Letter—from employer placing employee on garden leave

[To be typed on employer’s headed notepaper][Enter name and address of employee][Enter date]by handDear [enter name]Garden leaveI refer to [[enter...

Precedents

Letter—TUPE (9) from employee objecting to transfer

[Strictly private and confidential][Address][Date]Dear [enter name(s) of relevant individual(s) at the transferor],Proposed transfer of [enter...
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9th Nov
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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9th Nov
Practice notes

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

Coronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England, Wales and Scotland during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and until...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Definition of dismissal in unfair dismissal

To succeed in a claim of unfair dismissal, the claimant must establish that they were dismissed by the employer. A contract of employment may...
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9th Nov
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Precedents

Letter—long-term sickness absence (6): to employee confirming dismissal on notice (following final written warning)

[To be typed on headed notepaper of employer][Date]Dear [insert name of employee],Re: [insert name of employer] (the Company)Following our most recent...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Unfair dismissal time limit

Three months beginning with the effective date of terminationAn unfair dismissal claim must generally be submitted to the employment tribunal within...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Employment tribunal case management

Coronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England, Wales and Scotland during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and until...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

The basic award

Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020 (Week’s Pay Amendment Regs 2020),...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Striking out and unless orders in employment tribunal proceedings

Coronavirus (COVID-19): All proceedings in employment tribunals in England, Wales and Scotland during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and until...
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9th Nov
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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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9th Nov
Precedents

Costs warning letter (employment tribunal)

[ON YOUR LETTERHEAD][Name and address of other party, or other party’s solicitor]Dear [insert contact name][Insert subject of letter, eg names of...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Calculating pension loss in employment tribunal claims

Pension loss will generally only arise in cases where an individual has lost their job and the pension provision that went with that job. An...
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Produced in partnership with Keith Bryant QC of Outer Temple Chambers. 12th Jan
Precedents

Application—postponement or adjournment of hearing

[Insert date][Insert] Employment Tribunal[insert address]To the [insert] Employment Tribunal[Insert case name]Case No: [Insert case number]...
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9th Nov
Precedents

ET1 grounds of claim—direct sex discrimination, sexual harassment and constructive dismissal

[Insert in para 8.2 of claim form ET1:]1The Claimant was employed by the Respondent as a [job title]. She worked at the Respondent’s premises at...
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9th Nov
Practice notes

Collective agreements

Collective agreements are agreements negotiated between one or more trade unions and employers or employers' associations and which relate to one or...
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9th Nov
Precedents

Letter—employer acknowledgement of notification of maternity leave

Date: [insert date]Dear [insert name of employee]Congratulations and thank you for telling me about your pregnancy and the date that your baby is due....
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9th Nov

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Practice notes

Disclosure—data protection and GDPR considerations

IP COMPLETION DAY: 11.00 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following the UK’s...
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Produced in partnership with Charlie Morgan (Senior Associate, Digital Law Lead (UK)) of Herbert Smith Freehills 18th Jan
Practice notes

Employment claims in Scottish civil courts

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Claims in Scottish civil courts have been affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. See: LNB News 16/03/2020 24, LNB...
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Produced in partnership with Russell Bradley of Ampersand 18th Jan
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Practice notes

Alternative dispute resolution in employment claims

IP COMPLETION DAY: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marks the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period entered into following the UK’s...
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18th Jan
Practice notes

High Court and County Court employment claims

UPDATE: On 26 September 2018 the Law Commission launched a Consultation paper on Employment Law Hearing Structures seeking views on how the shared...
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15th Jan
Q&As

What remedies are available to an individual who loses a new job because their ex-employer provides a poor reference in breach of the terms of an Acas-conciliated COT3 agreement which included an agreed form of reference?

Breach of contractThe employment tribunal has no mechanism of its own for making respondents comply with monetary or non-monetary awards (or with...
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5th Dec
Q&As

Does the small claims court have jurisdiction to determine whether an individual is an employee of a party?

The issue of whether an individual is an employee of another may comprise two questions:•whether an individual A has a contract to work for party B,...
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5th Dec

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Notice of acting

Case number [insert number][In the principal registryORIn the [insert court location] FAMILY court]Sitting at [insert place]Notice of actingBetween[insert petitioner name]Petitionerand[insert respondent name]RespondentTake notice that we [insert name of firm] have been appointed to act as the