Let your employees use Facebook — it’s less risky than you think – The Times
“Web 2.0 has thrown up new legal challenges for businesses but they shouldn’t detract from the opportunities.”
The Times, 18th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Category: employment
Sage (UK) Ltd v Bacco – Times Law Reports
Law reports in appeal papers
Employment Appeal Tribunal
“When lodging copies of authorities for the purposes of an appeal to the appeal tribunal, parties should ensure that where cases had been reported, those reports were copied in the bundle of authorities.”
The Times, 11th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Employment Appeals Tribunal refuses ‘powerful’ new evidence – OUT-LAW.com
“A worker has won the right to compensation for his sacking after being accused of poaching customers from his employer and starting up his own rival firm. The employer lost the case despite a tribunal finding ‘powerful evidence’ in the employer’s favour.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th October 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
Minimum wage rates are increased – BBC News
“More than a million workers are to receive a pay rise as increases to the minimum wage come into force.”
BBC News, 30th September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Crackdown pledge on minimum wage – BBC News
“Firms who pay less than the minimum wage face bigger fines as part of a crackdown on ‘rogue’ employers.”
BBC News, 12th September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Unlimited fines for employment agencies that exploit workers – The Times
“Employment agencies will face a legal crackdown to stop them exploiting workers after unions exposed a stream of abuses, suffered mainly by migrant workers.”
The Times, 13th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Brown plans new migrant controls to get unskilled Britons back to work – The Guardian
“Gordon Brown will today try to quell union anger at the growing insecurity of the British workforce due to migration of cheap and casualised foreign labour by promising to find an ‘extra 500,000 British jobs for British workers’ “.
The Guardian, 10th September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Marked increase in employment tribunal cases – The Lawyer
“Employment tribunal cases continued to rise during 2006-07, up 15 per cent on the previous year, figures from the Tribunals Service have revealed.”
The Lawyer, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Four out of five companies took no age discrimination action – OUT-LAW.com
“Fewer than one in five companies have changed their employment and recruitment practices in the wake of new anti-age discrimination laws, according to research by employment relations body ACAS.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th August 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
MPs want UK to pay living wage to overseas staff – The Guardian
“MPs called for legislation yesterday to make British retailers pay their garment workers overseas a living wage.”
The Guardian, 17th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Strikes, work curbs and litigation: how life may change under the EU charter – The Times
“Britain was told yesterday that it had all but lost its fight to stop the Charter of Fundamental Rights becoming legally binding in the new EU treaty set to replace the failed European Constitution, sources claimed yesterday.”
The Times, 21st June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Bosses central to new immigration plans – The Guardian
“Employers could be obliged to make new staff produce a passport or birth certificate before they start work or face financial penalties, under new proposals to crack down on illegal immigration announced today.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Rogue employers to face illegal working crackdown – Government News Network
“The Home Office drive against illegal working moved forward today as talks began with industry on the implementation of tough new legislation designed to crackdown on bogus employees.”
Home Office press release, 15th May 2007
Source: www.gnn.gov.uk
Regina (Gibbs) v. Bishop of Manchester – Times Law Reports
Reasonable notice is sufficient
Regina (Gibbs) v. Bishop of Manchester
Queen’s Bench Division
“Since a lay worker in a diocese was not protected by employment legislation, his licence to serve might be revoked with no right of appeal, provided he had been given reasonable notice.”
The Times, 25th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Monitoring of employee breached human rights, says European Court – OUT-LAW.com
“The monitoring by a Welsh college of an employee’s email, phone and internet use was a breach of her human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The UK Government must pay £3,000 damages and legal costs in the case.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
Dispute resolutions fail say harassed employees – OUT-LAW.com
“Workplace dispute resolution procedures make cases of discrimination worse and do not benefit the victim, according to sufferers of harassment on grounds of religion or sexual orientation.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
