Employment Law Bulletin archive 2008
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ELB
848 31 December 2008
European parliament votes in favour
of ending working time opt-out, guidance
on Employment Act 2008, worked
examples on calculating statutory maternity
pay with salary sacrifice and
childcare vouchers, Saini v All Saints Haque Centre
and others, letter
informing employee of increase in holiday entitlement
ELB
847 10 December 2008
Flexible working extension to go
ahead in April 2009, Queen’s Speech
outlines forthcoming employment
legislation, new tribunal award limits
announced, XpertHR launches good
practice service, Chagger v Abbey
National plc and another, letter imposing
a lay-off or short-time working
ELB
846 26 November 2008
Consultation on tips and the minimum
wage launched, Employment Act 2008
receives royal assent, BERR approves
revised Acas discipline and grievance
code of practice, benefits provision
during additional maternity leave worked
example, Rolls-Royce v Unite,
redundancy selection scoring form
ELB
845 12 November 2008
XpertHR launches job pricing service,
agency Workers Directive: have the
arguments just begun?, termination of
employment due to long-term incapacity
and payment for notice period, Royal
Bank of Scotland Plc v Harrison,
shift-swap policy and agreement form,
Claridge v Daler Rowney Ltd
ELB 844 29
October 2008
European parliament approves Temporary Agency Workers
Directive,
statutory sick pay changes introduced, worked examples on holiday
accrual
in first year of employment, Tradition Securities and Futures SA v X
and
another, sickness absence: SSP1 form and SSP2 form
ELB 843 15
October 2008
European Commission proposes changes to maternity
Directive, sex
discrimination claims concerning contractual payments,
government
consults on right to time off for public duties, line manager
briefing on
timekeeping, Sodexo Ltd v Gutridge and others
ELB 842 1
October 2008
Heyday: age discrimination challenge alive and well,
early/late birth:
applicable maternity provisions, London Borough of Lewisham
v Malcolm,
MacCulloch v Imperial Chemical Industries plc, Loxley v BAE
Systems Land
Systems (Munitions & Ordnance) Ltd, employee attitude survey
form
ELB 841 17
September 2008
Government consults on proposals to amend the EWC
Directive, TUPE
transfers: when an objection isn’t an objection, how to deal
with maternity
pay, salary sacrifice and childcare vouchers, (1) Perry’s
Motor Sales Ltd
(2) Perry’s Burnley Ltd v Lindley, policy on employees taking
a second job
ELB 840 3
September 2008
Government consults on flexible working, the
abolition of the statutory
dispute resolution procedures, Selvarajan v
Wilmot and others, Procek
v Oakford Farms Ltd, policy on employees who
are breastfeeding/expressing
milk, amended documents on holiday and
maternity/adoption leave
ELB 839 13
August 2008
Acas receives more equal pay than unfair dismissal
complaints for
conciliation, government announces plans to stop employers
including
tips in minimum wage, Bayode v The Chief Constable of
Derbyshire,
letter informing an employee of ineligibility for parental leave
ELB 838 30
July 2008
Rise in employment tribunal claims, government publishes
response to
Equality Bill consultation, union indirectly discriminated
against female
members, Equality Bill could 'transform' disability law,
Duncombe & others
v Department for Education and Skills, line manager
briefing on paternity rights
ELB 837 16
July 2008
Draft Regulations amending maternity and adoption leave
provisions published,
statutory sick pay oversight to be rectified from
October, disability
comparator test thrown into doubt, how to manage
homeworkers,
Miles v Linkage Community Trust Ltd, employee of the month
policy
ELB 836 2
July 2008
Information on Equality Bill published, government
consults on right
to request time off for training, contract of service
counts when it all
goes wrong, Consistent Group Ltd v Kalwak and others,
Kuzel v
Roche Products Ltd, attendance allowance contract clause
ELB 835 18
June 2008
Acas publishes draft discipline and grievance guidance,
government
negotiates retention of working time opt-out, risk assessments
and
pregnancy discrimination, managing personal relationships at work,
Stevenson v JM Skinner & Co, policy on stop and search of employees
ELB 834 4
June 2008
Response to dispute resolution consultation published,
government agrees
deal on agency workers, employees to be given right to
request time off
for training, EAT issues new practice direction, company
maternity policy,
disability case law update, English v Thomas Sanderson
Blinds Ltd
ELB 833 14 May
2008
Acas consults on revised discipline and grievance code, government
announces rules for skilled foreign workers, Airbus UK Ltd v Webb,
Sharma and others v Manchester City Council, policy on religious
observance during working hours
ELB 832 30
April 2008
Pregnancy and work: updated BERR guidance, Acas to
conciliate after
fixed period has ended, inconsistencies in discrimination
law highlighted,
changes to sex discrimination law and maternity rights,
Okonu vs G4S
Security Services, employee assistance programme
ELB 831 16
April 2008
Government delays centralised vetting system, TUPE
transfers outside
the EU, Holis Metal Industries Ltd v GMB and another,
Davies v Farnborough
College of Technology, Atkins v Coyle Personnel plc,
policy on relocation
assistance, letters on possibility of a relocation and
informing of relocation
ELB
830 26 March 2008
Regulations amending Sex Discrimination Act
published, third-party
liability for sexual harassment, how to manage cover
for long-term sickness
absence, James v London Borough of Greenwich, GAB
Robins (UK) Ltd
v Triggs, policy on palmtop/hand-held computer use, absence
record form
ELB
829 12 March 2008
New national minimum wage rate approved,
changes to minimum wage
enforcement from October 2008, conducting checks on
the immigration
status of prospective employees, Richmond Adult Community
College v
McDougall, Voss v Land Berlin
ELB
828 27 February 2008
TUPE case law update, government responds
to paternity consultation,
Hart v Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary,
Hutchins v Permacell
Finesse Ltd, Shaw v CCL Ltd, foreign employees documents
updated
ELB
827 13 February 2008
Case-law year starts with two important
Advocate General opinions, how
to discipline employees during pregnancy or
maternity leave, Bleuse v MBT
Transport Ltd, O'Neil v Wooldridge Ecotech Ltd,
policy on reintroduction
into the workplace on return from maternity leave,
illegal working codes finalised
ELB 826 30 January
2008
Advocate General delivers opinions on holiday pay and sick leave,
how to
harmonise terms and conditions after the acquisition of a business,
Regent
Security Services Ltd v Power, Klusova v London Borough of Hounslow,
letters
notifying of retirement where previous agreement not to retire
reached
ELB 825 16 January
2008
Line manager briefing on agency workers, increase in limits on
tribunal
awards, Home Office v Evans and Laidlaw, Jackson v
Computershare
Investor Services plc, Lyddon v Englefield Brickwork Ltd,
homeworking
agreement, policy on right of appeal over redundancy selection
criteria
ELB 824 2 January
2008
Guidance on dealing with overpayments, a new kind of 'earlier' and
'informal' dispute resolution, age discrimination - recent tribunal
decisions,
National Grid Electricity Transmission plc v Wood, Scottish and
Southern
Energy plc v Mackay, Homeserve Emergency Services v Dixon
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