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We are delighted to launch the first of our 2015 webinars with an HR hot topic.  With the likes of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram being increasingly used as a…

In addition to providing employment law support, we can also help with your business immigration needs. Immigration is a topic that is constantly in the public eye, with ever-changing goalposts…

Do you remember the Woolies redundancy case?  As a quick recap, Woolies treated each of its stores as a separate establishment and as a result it did not count all…

ACAS has made changes to its online early conciliation form so that a claimant can include details of his or her representative, in which case ACAS will make contact with…

The Government has introduced legislation to limit all unlawful deduction claims (excluding certain claims for example for SMP, SSP) to 2 years before the ET1 is lodged. This is to…

The European Courts stopped short of making obesity a “protected characteristic” but it did say that it could meet the definition of a disability if it is an impairment which…

Achieving settlement more efficiently has been attempted via different means in the last few years, including judicial mediation schemes. Now this month sees the introduction of early conciliation through ACAS…

As of 30 June 2014 all employees with more than 26 weeks’ service will have the right to request flexible working. To date this right has been limited to those…

The Government is consulting over immigration fees, and in particular whether the migrant workers and those employing them should make an appropriate contribution towards the cost of running the immigration…

The Court of Appeal has agreed that a redundancy scheme which paid out on the basis of age banding was not discriminatory because it was objectively justified. The Department of…