Employment Law blog

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• The Starbucks generation...

  18 May, 2012

  This week is Workwise week, now in its seventh year and in case you weren’t aware today is actually national “Work from Home Day”. …

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• An Uncompromising Approach to Severance

  9 May, 2012

  ANDY COULSON, the former News of the World editor and David Cameron’s former Director of Communications, has now been granted permission to appeal against a High Court decision that News Group Newspapers (NGN) does not have to pay all his legal costs over the phone-hacking affair. …

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• Recruiting New Staff Shouldn’t Be An Own Goal

  2 May, 2012

  English football fans no doubt felt a degree of relief this week (tinged perhaps with a little surprise!) that Roy Hodgson has been given the top job in English football and the sense of uncertainty following Fabio Capello’s departure will now lift.…

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• Employers can still lawfully force employees to retire

  25 April, 2012

  This morning, the Supreme Court dispelled one of the employment law myths that existed after the repeal of the Statutory Retirement Age of 65.…

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• Spring may have sprung, but less colourful news for Mothercare ....

  13 April, 2012

  The recent news that Mothercare is to close over 100 stores in the UK is unlikely to put a spring in the step of the 700 employees whose jobs will now be at risk from redundancy.…

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