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Employers warned over holiday pay
Endeavour Partnership warns employers to ensure they are calculating holiday pay correctly after a number of recent legal challenges.
Posted in: Employment Law
New flexible working scheme to come into force
Employers are reminded that from 30 June 2014, all employees will have the right to request flexible working.
Posted in: Employment Law
Pensions auto-enrolment guidance
Although small businesses will not be subject to the pensions auto-enrolment requirements until June 2015 at the earliest, they should nevertheless take note of a recently published Pensions Regulator report.
Posted in: Employment Law
Endeavour hosts CIPD briefing
Endeavour’s employment team is hosting the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development’s June briefing on the subject of re-structuring a business.
Posted in: Employment Law News & PR
Restrictive covenants and goodwill agreements
A High Court case illustrates that it is not always in an employer’s best interests to immediately place an employee on garden leave, or seek injunctive relief against a departing employee when they leave to set up in competition.
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Confidentiality during employment and after termination
In what appears to be one of the few times that a judge has felt justified in allowing the inspection and imaging of employees’ computers, the High Court has recently ordered that an employer may instruct an independent computer expert to inspect and take images from the personal computers of two former employees.
Posted in: Employment Law
Dismissing an employee: taking the right steps
Two recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) cases highlight some of the issues a business needs to consider when contemplating dismissing an employee.
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Covert recordings of meetings admissible in evidence
In Punjab National Bank (International) Limited and others v Gosain UKEAT/0003/14, the EAT held that covert recordings of public and private conversations by an employee at disciplinary and grievance meetings were admissible in evidence and could be considered by the Tribunal when it came to determining the case at full hearing.
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Wages were not a pre requisite for employment status
In the recent case of Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v Knight UKEAT/0073/13, the EAT considered whether a managing director and sole shareholder who had not received salary for two years could be an employee and therefore entitled to a redundancy payment from the Insolvency Service under section 166 of ERA 1996.
Posted in: Employment Law
New policy on national minimum wage enforcement
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has published details of its updated policy on enforcement of the national minimum wage, which includes the revised scheme for naming and shaming employers, and the new system of increased financial penalties of up to £20,000 for the most serious cases.
Posted in: Employment Law