A topic that is not usually one that causes much concern within the Employment and HR arena is that of time travelling to work being counted as working time. However, Advocate General Bot has, in the case of Federacion de Servicios Privados del Sindicato Comisiones
It is often the case that Companies and HR Staff will be faced with disciplinary meetings comprising of a multitude of issues to be determined or which have resulted in the need to call a disciplinary meeting. The common law tests considered by Employment Tribunals
New Employment Limits Increase As a result of the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2015, employers will need to be aware of the new limits coming in to force as of 6 April 2015. The most interesting increases include: The maximum payment for any
As an employment law solicitor in Leicester, I am often asked to draft Contracts of Employment or contracts for self-employed contractors (sometimes called consultancy agreements or contracts for services etc). Last week, I had 2 new instructions, both very similar in nature but with slight differences
An update on the changes to the Employment Tribunal regime July 2013.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced plans to introduce a new kind of employment status – that of ‘owner-employee’. The plan is that new owner-employees will relinquish some of their UK employment rights in exchange for rights of ownership in the form of shares
An employment contract which was retained and not signed by the relevant worker remains valid for the purposes of enforcing restrictive covenants contained within it, a High Court judge has ruled. Benefits received by the worker under the terms of the unsigned contract, including pension
