15 May, 2012
14 May, 2012
Issue 126 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
9 May, 2012
New report says that types of jobs available and improvements in skill levels, combined with changes to tax and benefit systems, will tend to widen inequalities rather than reduce them.
9 May, 2012
Measures announced include draft Care and Support Bill, and Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill bringing changes to parental leave and reform of employment tribunals.
1 May, 2012
Issue 125 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
26 April, 2012
New Supreme Court judgment that considers whether, in the course of his employment, the appellant had suffered indirect discrimination on the ground of age.
18 April, 2012
18 April, 2012
New Office for National Statistics figures show the first quarterly fall in unemployment since May 2011.
18 April, 2012
Issue 124 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
13 April, 2012
Ofsted best practice report for young people shows that those who complete work experience, course tasters or vocational study are more likely to make good progress in their apprenticeship than those starting straight from school.
10 April, 2012
Research by Guardian also shows that at least 24,000 vacancies do not offer enough hours to allow a couple with children to qualify for working tax credits.
10 April, 2012
IPPR analysis shows that unemployment will peak at 8.7 per cent and will not fall until at least September 2013.
5 April, 2012
Changes, that include an increase in the qualifying period for claiming unfair dismissal from one to two years, will save employers more than £50m.
4 April, 2012
New DWP research report explores the experiences and outcomes of the 'fit note' from the perspectives of employers and employees.
3 April, 2012
New statutory instrument amends section 4(3) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 so as to enable proceedings in respect of unfair dismissal to be heard by an Employment Judge alone.
3 April, 2012
New statutory instrument increases, from one year to two years, the qualifying period of continuous employment needed for entitlement to written statement of reasons for dismissal and to acquire the right not to be unfairly dismissed, with transitional provision for employees whose period of employment begins before 6 April 2012.
3 April, 2012
TUC warns that an increase in qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal will increase job insecurity, discriminate against younger workers, part-time women workers and employees from black and ethnic communities.
3 April, 2012
Unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds will be offered six months paid work and Welsh government will cover the cost of a minimum wage salary and the employer's National Insurance contribution, reports bbc.co.uk.
3 April, 2012
Issue 123 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
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