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• Winter headaches

  1 December, 2010

  The recent bad weather has caused a considerable amount of disruption to everyone and many employees have been unable to make their way to work…

• Useful reminder of the perils of protective awards

  1 November, 2010

  A recent decision of the EAT has served as a useful reminder to employers of the dangers of not consulting properly in collective redundancy situations.
  
  In Lancaster University v The University & College Union protective awards of 60 days wages were made to employees who had lost their jobs as a result of fixed term contracts of employment not being renewed…

• Retirement in Good Faith

  1 November, 2010

  In a previous bulletin we reported that the Default Retirement Age is likely to be phased out between April and October 2011. As a result, many employers are taking steps now to retire employees aged 65 or over under the current, more favourable regime. However, the current regime has come under the spotlight in a recent case…

• Equality Act 2010

  1 October, 2010

  significant drafting error in the Equality Act 2010 has potentially rendered compromise agreements ineffective as a means of settling claims for discrimination or equal pay brought under the Act…

• Annual leave

  1 October, 2010

  The Inner House of the Court of Session has issued an important decision, which helpfully clarifies the law where claims for annual leave are made. The case is Russell & Others v Transocean & Others, and involved claims by several hundred offshore workers for annual leave. They worked, almost always, a pattern of two weeks on the installation followed by two weeks off it, and argued that the period off the installation could not count towards annual leave, which had to be taken from scheduled working time. The rota of 26 weeks of work, and 26 weeks of leave, had to be changed to 22 weeks of work, and 30 weeks of leave…

• Our Employment Law team takes to the road again

  1 October, 2010

  Following the success of our September employment law roadshow conference in Dundee, our specialist employment law team is set to hit the road again!…

• New Discrimination Legislation from 1st October

  1 September, 2010

  The Government Equalities Office has confirmed that the vast majority of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 will come into force on 1 October 2010…

• The importance of words

  1 September, 2010

  The importance of framing disciplinary allegations accurately was starkly exemplified in a recent decision of the EAT sitting in London
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• Employment Law Changes

  1 September, 2010

  A reminder that, as reported in our previous bulletin, the majority of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 will come into force on 1 October 2010…

• Better late than never!

  1 August, 2010

  Employers at present can normally require employees to retire at 65 and there is very little, if anything, that employees can do to prevent that. Sixty five has become known as the default retirement age (“DRA”), although some retire earlier or later by mutual agreement…