Managing employees/workers

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  Employment law cases

  Agency workers: tribunal finds school underpaid temp by over £10,000

  The employment tribunal held in this case that the hirer, and not the temporary worker agency, was liable to pay compensation to the agency worker for failure to pay her at the rate she would have been paid had she been directly recruited by the hirer as an employee.

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  FAQs

  When will a derogatory comment posted on social media amount to defamation?

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  FAQs

  What can an employer do if an employee posts a derogatory comment about it on social media?

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  FAQs

  What are the defences available to an employee who has posted a potentially defamatory comment about their employer on social media?

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  FAQs

  Can a defamatory comment posted by an employee on social media be used as evidence in the employee's disciplinary proceedings?

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  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Ford justifies decision not to enhance additional paternity pay

  Ford has successfully justified its policy of paying men on additional paternity leave the statutory minimum, while at the same time offering generous enhanced maternity pay to women on maternity leave.

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Gerri Hurst, Sinead Keenan, Carly Mather, Joelle Parkinson and Mark Rose are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  FAQs

  If an employer agrees to a flexible working request, does it have to issue a new contract of employment to the employee?

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  FAQs

  What tribunal claims might an employee bring where the employer has failed to consider their request for flexible working?

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  FAQs

  Are agency workers eligible to make a statutory flexible working request?