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UK: Are 'zero-hours contracts' an alternative to the use of agency workers?
In a recent survey on employment trends in 2012, the CBI reported that the increased costs and complexity brought about by the Agency Workers …
EU publishes draft directive on board gender diversity
The European Commission has published a draft Directive which aims to improve gender diversity on boards of EU listed companies. The draft sets …
UK: Equal pay: out of time tribunal claims can proceed in the High Court
Employers could face a substantial increase in historic equal pay claims. The Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that …
Europe: Fixed-term employees: claims based on former fixed-term status permitted
Employers should not disadvantage an employee due to their former fixed term status. The ECJ has ruled that EU law permits employees to bring …
Europe: Collective redundancy consultation: ECJ fails to rule on trigger due to lack of jurisdiction
Uncertainty remains over the trigger point for collective redundancy consultation where a strategic business decision foreseeably or inevitably leads to …
UK: Court of Appeal confirms no service provision change where client changes
The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT's decision that the service provision change provisions of TUPE cannot apply where the client to whom services are …
UK: Holiday pay - possible challenge to calculation method in UK regulations
The Supreme Court has ruled that UK aviation working time regulations can be interpreted to comply with the ECJ's decision that holiday pay should …
UK: Union recognition - union can apply to CAC where employees sufficiently strongly connected to GB
The High Court has decided that a bargaining unit of pilots working for a UK registered company in several European countries was sufficiently strongly …
UK: BIS reforms - consultations on employee owner status
The government has now published its consultation document on implementing its proposal to introduce a new employment status "employee owners" (see …
UK: BIS reforms - removal of statutory questionnaires and third party harassment provisions
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill has been amended to reflect the Government's plans to repeal the provisions in the Equality Act 2010 relating …
New resources - October 2012
Home Office leaflets on forthcoming changes to Disclosure and Barring Acas guidance on the use of smartphones and other devices at work
UK: Bonus claims - Attrill v Dresdner Kleinwort appeal to proceed
The decision in Attrill v Dresdner Kleinwort is to be heard by the Court of Appeal next year - permission to appeal was given on 6 November. …
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