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legal news for the UK, covering the latest information relating to employment law, commerical agent law, discrimination, mediation and employment law.
- Added on: Apr 18th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: ken
- Listed in: Law & Legal
- Tags: legal employment law mediation discrimination commerical
Recent Posts
Increase in the Use of Legal Action to Recover Debts
Creditsafe, a business information provider, has released a new survey that shows that companies in the UK are stepping up their efforts to tackle bad debts. According to the survey, one in four employers intend to take legal action in the next twelv...
Government Outlines New Plans for Job Centres
Under new plans recently outlined by the Government, job centres are set to become a “universal employment service” open to those already in work as well as the unemployed. The plans will modernise the current Jobcentre Plus network, and ...
What Constitutes an Employee?
The recent case of Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher and others has highlighted an important issue concerning the difference between employees and workers in legal terms. Mr Belcher and his colleagues were engaged by Autoclenz to clean vehicles for car auction...
Dramatic Rise in Employment Tribunal Claims
According to the latest full-year figures recently released by the Tribunal Service, the number of claims made in the year 2007/08 reached a record high of 189,303. The dramatic rise in cases - up 43% on the previous year - is thought to be due in la...
Volunteers Without Contracts Not Entitled to Discrimination Protection
The case of X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau has demonstrated an important point of law regarding the rights of voluntary workers. The claimant, “X”, was a disabled woman who worked for between four and five hours a week for the Mid ...
Widespread Support for Equal Pay Audits Among UK Public
A new poll conducted for the Fawcett Society and UNISON has shown that the overwhelming majority of the British public would support the introduction of a legal requirement on employers to carry out pay audits in order to eradicate the gender pay gap...
