Employment and HR

• Veteran Manager Unfairly Selected for Redundancy

  • Posted21 September 2015

  A marketing manager who was made redundant after working for almost 30 years for the same employer has won the right to compensation after a tribunal pinpointed deficiencies in the...

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• Mobile Workers – Daily Travel to and from Work is ‘Working Time’

  • Posted17 September 2015

  In Federacion de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisones obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL and Another, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has handed down its opinion,...

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• Are You Prepared for the Rugby World Cup?

  • Posted16 September 2015

  The Rugby World Cup 2015 begins this week, with the first match (England v Fiji) kicking off at 8:00pm on Friday. The final will take place at Twickenham on Saturday,...

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• TUPE – Organised Grouping of Employees

  • Posted7 September 2015

  A service provision change under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) takes place when, immediately before the change, there is an ‘organised grouping’ of employees that...

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• Court of Appeal Rejects Unison’s Employment Tribunal Fees Challenge

  • Posted27 August 2015

  When Employment Tribunal (ET) fees were introduced in July 2013, the public service trade union Unison was quick to challenge the lawfulness of the new regime on the basis that...

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• NFU Mutual SafetyHub for Small Farms

  • Posted25 August 2015

  According to figures collated by NFU Mutual, smaller farming businesses, whose workers invariably carry out a wide variety of tasks, often in poor weather conditions, are still prone to significant...

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