‘The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, has told MPs he will press ahead with a decision on Wednesday to privatise the probation service, despite renewed public safety concerns and before the outcome of a high court challenge next week.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Changes to the way offenders are supervised in England and Wales may have contributed to two murders, says the probation officers’ union.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Staff who regularly clock up overtime could now be able to claim additional pay for annual vacation leave.’
The Independent, 4th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A legal challenge to government plans to privatise some probation services in England and Wales has been launched by the probation officers’ union Napo.’
BBC News, 30th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Proposals by academics to allow new defences against trade mark infringement to be created in the future should be resisted, a trade mark law specialist has warned.’
OUT-LAW.com, 6th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Paragraph 3 of Schedule A1 to the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 was not incompatible with article 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.’
WLR Daily, 12th September 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Bone v North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2014] EWCA Civ 652; [2014] WLR (D) 214
‘It was not necessary in a claim for detriment under section 146(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 for the independence of the relevant trade union to be established in order for an employment tribunal to have jurisdiction.’
WLR Daily, 15th May 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Home secretary says that in their handling of sensitive cases some officers had displayed ‘contempt for the public’.’
The Guardian, 21st May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two different bodies in the last week have reflected on issues concerning the fundamental imbalance in the employment relationship.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd April 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Hundreds of probation officers have appealed against the jobs assigned to them under a new system due to contract out most probation work from next year.’
BBC News, 18th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Government plans to privatise the probation service amount to a breach of the international laws on forced labour, according to a union legal challenge that is being launched on Monday.’
The Guardian, 10th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A trade union’s legal challenge to the introduction of fees to bring a case to an employment tribunal has been dismissed by the High Court.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘We asked the business lobbying group CBI, the Institute of Directors (IOD) and Trade Union lawyer Richard Arthur for their views on reform of this prickly area of law.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 7th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
United States of America v Nolan [2014] EWCA Civ 71; [2014] WLR (D) 46
‘Employers who were public administrative bodies or sovereign states were not exempt from the obligation to consult employees’ representatives about proposed collective redundancies imposed by section 188(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, as substituted.’
WLR Daily, 4th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The right guaranteed by article 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of individuals to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests encompassed the right to engage in collective bargaining relating to the terms and conditions of employment of a particular group of workers.’
WLR Daily, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Article 27 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, by itself or in conjunction with the provisions of Parliament and Council Directive 2002/14/EC, could not be invoked in a dispute between individuals in order to disapply national provision.’
WLR Daily, 15th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Companies can now start “looking in earnest” at how to make changes to the regime governing protections for employees transferring to a new employer after the publication of final regulations clarified some outstanding questions about the new regime, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
“HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is targeting 200 employers who recently advertised internships to ensure they are paying the minimum wage.”
BBC News, 11th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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