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- Type:
- Leading practice guides
Leading practice guidance discussing how collective redundancy consultation processes and practices can be implemented in organisations through policies, training and identifying the role of key stakeholders.
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- Type:
- Leading practice guides
Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can consult with employees directly and via trade union and employee representatives during a collective redundancy process.
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- Type:
- Leading practice guides
Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can engage employees with the collective redundancy consultation process by ensuring that sufficient time and resource is dedicated to exploring the key topic areas of consultation.
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- Date:
- 29 May 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
With a general election confirmed for 4 July 2024, senior legal editor Fiona Cuming looks at two key areas where Labour's employment law proposals, if implemented, would transform the face of employment law in the UK and have significant implications for employers.
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- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect that the statutory code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement will come into effect on 18 July 2024.
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- Date:
- 22 May 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In July 2023, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 came into force. This legislation gives the Government the power to make regulations to introduce minimum service levels (MSLs) where strikes take place in "relevant services". To date, MSL regulations are in place for passenger rail, ambulance, border control, and fire and rescue services, with regulations awaited for key hospital, education and nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management services.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect that the Government launched a consultation on abolishing European Works Councils on 16 May 2024.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Mercer, the Supreme Court held that s.146 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A) is incompatible with art.11 as it does not protect workers against detriment for participating in industrial action.
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- Type:
- Training
Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay for the purposes of calculating redundancy pay and the extension of redundancy protection for pregnant employees and new parents in force from 6 April 2024.
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- Type:
- FAQs
Updated to reflect that the exemption from the requirement to elect representatives is extended for transfers on or after 1 July 2024.