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Part-time Workers

Employment Rights for Part-time Workers There has been a surge in part-time work over recent years.  More than 6 million people are now part-time workers in the UK and as  many as 47% of all females in employment are working part-time. Part-time workers have the right not to be treated less favourably than comparable full-time … Read more

BBC Severance Pay

The controversy over the BBC’s severance pay policy is unlikely to have reached its peak as the ex-director general, Mark Thompson is questioned by the Commons Public Accounts Committee this week.   Thompson has already submitted a statement to the committee claiming that the Chair of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten and Trustee, Lord Fry … Read more

Pensions Minister “determined” to tackle age discrimination

Steve Webb, the Pensions Minister, has said that he will strive to tackle age discrimination in the workplace. Mr Webb made his commitment on 3 September 2013 when launching a report by the International Longevity Centre (ILC-UK) which has established that European Governments are keen to encourage higher levels of engagement from older workers. According … Read more

Employers who fail to meet minimum wage to be named and shamed

According to the BBC the Government has announced new plans regarding the payment of the National Minimum Wage, which will come into effect from October. It is hoped that the new rules, and the damage that adverse publicity might bring, will embarrass firms into paying the statutory minimum rather than flouting the legislation. Although the TUC estimates that … Read more

25% of working mothers have suffered pregnancy discrimination

According to a recent survey by law firm Slater and Gordon,  than a quarter of mothers in the UK have encountered pregnancy discrimination against at work. One-third of 1,975 women questioned said they had found it very difficult to further their careers. More than half of the respondents felt that their employer could do more … Read more

What is your Employment Status?

Those who work on a self-employed basis have significantly less protection than employees in the workplace. There is a growing trend within certain sectors to work on a freelance or self-employed basis and there are tax benefits in so doing.  The benefits, however, must be weighed against the loss of employment rights. A number of … Read more

Flexible Working Time

During 2011 there were some significant consultations within Government that were titled Modern Workplace consultations[1]. One of the points that was put forward in these consultations, and which has been taken up by the Government, is to bring in statutory requests for flexible working time in certain circumstances. The decision to bring this in was … Read more

Shares for Rights

In George Osborne’s 2012 speech at the Tory party conference he put forward a shares for rights proposal where employee’s could give up employment rights such as unfair dismissal, statutory redundancy pay and flexible working time and in return they would gain shares in the company worth between £2,000 and £50,000. This was included with a … Read more

What Constitutes an Automatic Unfair Dismissal?

Within the Employment Rights Act 1996[1] and certain other pieces of legislation there are protections in place for employees greater than those afforded by a standard unfair dismissal claim.  If an employee is dismissed for one of these reasons laid out in statute and it can be proved that it was the reason or principal reason … Read more