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The Government has published its response to a consultation on plans to introduce a new kind of employment status – ‘employee owner’. Under the proposals, employee owners would relinquish some...
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An executive has been found in breach of his contract of employment with his former employer after he leaked a confidential report during a luncheon appointment with a business contact. ...
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In Scott v Northumbria Probation Board, a probation officer whose unfair dismissal claim was rejected by the Employment Tribunal (ET) has seen that decision quashed by the Employment Appeal Tribunal...
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The procedure for making council employees redundant has been examined in the case of a former chief executive who was dismissed after her local authority switched to an elected mayor...
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A job centre manager who said that she was dismissed because of her zeal in helping a vulnerable teenager to find work has succeeded in her claim for unfair dismissal...
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Under the EC Working Time Directive, workers are entitled to a minimum of four weeks’ paid leave in each leave year. However, the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), which implement...
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