Employment and HR

• Acas Early Conciliation Statistics

  • Posted21 November 2014

  For Employment Tribunal (ET) claims lodged on or after 6 May 2014, it is a legal requirement, unless an exemption applies, for the claimant to first notify the Advisory, Conciliation...

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• Professor ‘Employed to Invent’ Denied Share of £24.5 Million Profits

  • Posted18 November 2014

  Those who are ’employed to invent’ normally have few rights to the fruits of their labour, as a professor who invented a novel blood glucose testing device discovered recently. Although...

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• Eminent Doctor Claims Age Discrimination

  • Posted7 November 2014

  In Reynolds v CLFIS (UK) Limited and Others, an eminent doctor and insurance expert who maintains that she was removed from her role as chief medical officer of a leading...

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• Government Taskforce to Assess Impact of EAT Holiday Pay Ruling

  • Posted5 November 2014

  Following the ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that employers should include ‘non-guaranteed’ overtime that is routinely worked when calculating an employee’s holiday pay, the Government has announced that...

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• HSE Publishes Injury and Ill-Health Statistics

  • Posted5 November 2014

  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently published statistics on workplace injury and illness for the year 2013/14. The figures show that an estimated 28.2 million working days...

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• Mandatory Retirement – Was 65 an Appropriate Age?

  • Posted27 October 2014

  In the long-running case of Seldon v Clarkson, Wright and Jakes, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld the decision of the Employment Tribunal (ET) that the inclusion in a...

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