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DATE	ARTICLES
July 2009	Employment Law update
June 2009	Employment Law Round Up
May 2009	The Equality Bill - making discrimination easier to identify and avoid
April 2009 Edition	Employment legislative changes in April 2009
March 2009 Edition	An Update from Europe
February 2009 Edition	A further financial burden for employers in these difficult economic times
January 2009 Edition	When does Private life become Public?
December 2008 Edition	Do Employees have to incriminate themselves?
November 2008 Edition	Redundancy – Length of Service is a Lawful Criterion in the Selection Process
October 2008 Edition	ACAS Launches New Guide to Job Evaluations
September 2008 Edition	Establishing the Effective Date of Termination (and the cost of getting it wrong)
August 2008 Bulletin	Employment Law Update
July 2008 Edition	Disability-Related Discrimination – A Major Change
June 2008 Edition	Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide - as bad as it sounds?
Interim Bulletin - May 2008	Agency Workers to be Afforded Equal Treatment with Permenant Employees
May 2008 Edition	Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation – A Strict Interpretation
April 2008 Edition	Redundancy and Collective Consultation
March 2008 Edition	Disciplinary Proceedings - Redressing the Balance
February 2008 Edition	Opinions from Europe - The Shape of Things to Come? Discrimination by Association Do Workers Accrue Holiday Whilst Sick?
January 2008 Edition	Dismissal on the Grounds of Ill-Health
December 2007 Edition	Third Party Pressure to Dismiss
November 2007 Edition	Dismissal For Jealousy is not Discriminatory
October 2007 Edition	Equal Pay Claims at an All Time High
September 2007 Edition	Guidance on the Enforceabilty of Restrictive Covenants
August 2007 Edition	First Penalty Notice for Failure to Inform and Consult
July 2007 Edition	Settling Discrimination Claims – The Hidden Dangers And Other News
June 2007 Edition	TUPE
May 2007 Edition	Whistleblowing Update and Other News
April 2007 Edition	Can You Stop Employees "Preparing" to Compete?
February 2007 Edition	Dismissals for Incapability? What if the Employer is Responsible? And Other News
January 2007 Edition	The Employment Status of Agency Workers and other news
December 2006 Edition	A Briefing on the Equality Act 2006 Nick Benson is leaving Michelmores
November 2006 Edition	Admissibility of Secret Recordings Clearing the Air at Work
October 2006 Edition	Lifting the Veil on Religious Discrimination Two Cases of Passing Interest Employment Law Forum - 1st November 2006
September 2006 Edition	Employment Legislation Update
August 2006 Edition	Disabled Employees are not Entitled to Extra Sick Pay
July 2006 Edition	Employers Liable for Harrassment by Employees Fixed Term Employees Become Permanent Extending Family Friendly Rights
June 2006 Edition	Part-Time Workers and Bank Holidays Racial Grounds
May 2006 Edition	Employees and the World Cup Dealing with an Employee who has an Infectious Disease Employment Contracts for the Whole Family?
April 2006 Edition	Remuneration for Part-Time Workers - A Hot Topic Again Is Rolled-up Holiday Pay Lawful?
March 2006 Edition	Employment Status of Agency Workers Working Time Regulations
February 2006 Edition	Employees who work abroad can claim “Unfair Dismissal” New Draft Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Regulations Published
January 2006 Edition	Play it Safe - Treat as a Grievance Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Employees
December 2005 Edition	Qualifying Periods for Unfair Dismissal Claims Take Heart, You can deal with difficult Employees
November 2005 Edition	Web Logs and Employment Issues Vicarious liability
October 2005 Edition	Unfair Dismissal - Some Other Substantial Reason
September 2005 Edition	Equal Opportunities, a matter of common sense? Sex and Harassment, the Law is Changing
August 2005 Edition	Multiple Contracts - the dangers of employing the same person twice!
July 2005 Edition	Compromise Agreements…revisited Minimum Period of Parental Leave Our new Web Pages
June 2005 Edition	When does a meeting become a disciplinary hearing? Pension Consultation
May 2005 Edition	Collective Redundancies - Consultation and Notification
April 2005 Edition	New Rules for Statutory Maternity Pay Kigass Aero Components Limited v Brown 2002 – overturned by Court of Appeal
March 2005 Edition	Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 Issues surrounding Compromise Agreements
February 2005 Edition	Use of Restrictive Covenants in Contracts of Employment and 3 Case Studies
January 2005 Edition	Case Study of Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald International (2004) serves warning to employers that discretionary bonus clauses Constructive Dismissal – The Last Straw
December 2004 Edition	New Legislation Fair Procedure in Disciplinary Proceedings
November 2004 Edition	Proposed Changes to Working Time Directive Words of Warning
October 2004 Edition	Keep it Casual! Clean and a Whistleblower
September 2004 Edition	Misconduct Considerations Disability Amendments to the Legislation
August 2004 Edition	Save Money, Dismiss without Pay Treatment of Part Time Workers
July 2004 Edition	Focus on Disability Discrimination & the Duty to make Reasonable Adjustments
June 2004 Edition	Extra Complications with Maternity The Risks of Asking an Employee to go
May 2004 Edition	Stress at the top of the Agenda? When is an Employee not an Employee?
April 2004 Edition	Entitlement to Commission Payments Disability Discrimination – Justification for failing to make reasonable adjustments
March 2004 Edition	The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003 Communication with Absent Employees
February 2004 Edition	Personnel Files and Data Protection Compliance Compensation for Unfair Dismissal – Injury to Feelings
January 2004 Edition	An Employers Duty to Inform “Absent” Employees of Valuable Rights Discrimination – easier to establish more difficult to defend
December 2003 Edition	Discrimination on the Grounds of Religion or Religious Belief and Sexual Orientation Duty to consult when making 20 or more employees redundant
November 2003 Edition	Mobile Phones on the Road – Employer’s liability Employing workers from overseas
October 2003 Edition	Dress Codes Social Convention v Freedom of Expression Pregnancy is Private
September 2003 Edition	Monitoring your workers Post Termination Discrimination
August 2003 Edition	Consulting with Employee Representatives Employers who insist on Full Time Workers may fall foul of certain pieces of legislation
July 2003 Edition	Union Learning Representatives Agency Workers, Unfair Dismissal – Who is the employee
June 2003 Edition	Jurisdiction of an Employment Tribunal to award compensation for Personal Injury, Distress, Hurt Feelings and Damage to reputation Disciplinary Procedures
May 2003 Edition	Equal Pay Questionnaires Statutory Protection Against Harassment Rolled up Holiday Pay to be held unlawful

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