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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.

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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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Is a protective award, made by an employment tribunal following an employer's failure to carry out collective redundancy consultation, subject to tax?
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If the employer is in receipt of apprenticeship funds derived from the apprenticeship levy, can it reclaim the cost of re-sit exams from the apprentice in circumstances when it cannot use apprenticeship funding to cover such costs and the training provider will not fund it?
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If, before the expiry of the 28-day deadline for presenting a response to an Employment Tribunal claim, the respondent has made an application for an extension of time to present the response and still is awaiting the Employment Tribunal’s decision on the application, what would be the effect of filing the response after the 28-day deadline?
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If an employee has been employed for ten years under a successive series of fixed-term contracts with each one lasting a year, at what point does the law treat the employee as working under a permanent contract under the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002; is it the date on which their current contract was entered into, or the date on which the next contract after they had accrued four years’ continuous employment was entered into?
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A claimant brings a discrimination claim and then settles via COT3, agreeing not to keep the fact and terms of the COT3 confidential, and waives their right to bring any future claim relating to facts that occurred before the agreement was entered into. Is the claimant prohibited from bringing a future victimisation claim arising from the fact they had brought the initial discrimination claim?
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Associated legal terms

Contributory fault

The concept that an employee's conduct has contributed to his/her own dismissal.

Direct discrimination

/dɪˈrɛkt/ /dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

The concept whereby a person treats another person less favourably on the grounds of one of the protected characteristics under discrimination law, for example, race, sex, or a disability.

Restrictive covenant in employment contract

A clause in a contract which places certain restrictions on the business activities of an employee for a period of time after his employment with the employer.
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