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About Employment Law

We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten into the precious hours in your working day.

Starting employment

We cover recruitment, employment contracts, policies, handbooks and more. It’s not just contracts though. Other documents may regulate the employment relationship, such as policies, procedures and collective agreements.

Managing the employment relationship

Sickness and absence is a common occurrence in an employment relationship that brings up multiple legal issues. We offer a range of resources with practical guidance and legal considerations.

TUPE, outsourcing, share. and asset purchases

TUPE 2006 will likely apply when acquiring businesses through an asset purchase. You’ll need to consider due diligence, consultation obligations, employees and liabilities transferred to the buyer.

Stay on top of changes

We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten

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If, on an ET1 claim form served on an employer respondent (that names the employer and a number of individual former colleagues of the claimant as co-respondents), the work address of the individual co-respondents is provided and those individuals no longer work at that address, are the requirements of the employment tribunal rules satisfied for the purposes of the claim against the employer respondent? Does the employer respondent have a duty to the tribunal to supply the addresses of those individual respondents named in the ET1 who are no longer its employees?
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If an employee submits an expenses claim outside the deadline in the employer’s expenses policy, can the employer refuse to reimburse him?
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Is high blood pressure a qualifying disability under the Equality Act 2010?
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Can an employer take down trade union notices from the noticeboard if they include derogatory and defamatory comments about the employer? Could the employer discipline the trade union representatives who put up the notices?
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How should holiday pay be calculated in circumstances where an employee—accrues annual leave entitlement before and during a period of maternity leave at which time they are on a higher rate of pay (due to undertaking a seconded role), and seeks to use the that accrued annual leave on their return to work, at which time they are on their standard, lower, rate of pay? If the employee does not receive the higher rate of pay, would this constitute maternity discrimination?
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Associated legal terms

Equal pay for equal work

The concept that a female or male worker is entitled to equal pay for equal work when compared with the opposite sex.

Natural justice

Refers to the basic fundamental principles of fair treatment.

Public holiday

A public holiday that is normally given to employees on certain days in the calendar year.
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