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Published: 27.09.06 : Sex Discrimination Part 2
The rights I am going to cover today are very sex specific, but they do affect all employees, whether male or female, directly or indirectly. It is the question of having babies – known in ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Protecting Employees From Violence
Whatever the statistics say, we must all take sensible precautions to protect ourselves from violence and the threat of violence. This applies to the workplace just as it does to our daily lives. ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Smoking And Drinking In The Workplace
Employees who are addicted to smoking are a dying breed in more ways than one. 86,500 people die every year from a smoking related disease and according to one expert, two non-smokers die each... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Time Off For Public Duties
As I have probably made too plain in previous articles, one of the worries I have is that with employees having the right to more and more time off work for perfectly legitimate purposes, one day th... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : What’s In A Contract Of Employment
I often find that once a new employee has signed on the dotted line, the employer forgets about the contract of employment, whilst employees only get interested when it is too late – after the... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : What's Your Status?
It may seem like an obvious statement, but only employees have employment rights. In particular, only employees are protected against unfair dismissal. So it is important to know whether or not a pe... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Flexible Working – What Does It Mean?
If you have been employed by your current employer for at least six months and you want to change your contract of employment, you may have the legal right to request different working arrangements.... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : More new law
This article will be very interesting to some people and as dull as ditch water to others. Which camp you fall into probably depends on whether you, or anybody close to you, is affected by the chang... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Do you believe?
Jon Loney, employment specialist at South West law firm Foot Anstey, highlights employers’ duties under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations. Religious extremism has been... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Sick Pay & Disability
Whenever radical new laws are introduced, it takes a good few years before the courts put enough flesh on the bones of the basic law for us to understand exactly what the law means in practice. ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Workplace Malpractice
Dave has been unemployed for a number of years and is naturally delighted when he gets a job working for a timber merchant. Part of Dave’s job involves cutting wood using a circular saw. Dave ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Unfair Constructive Dismissal
Nick has worked for a medium-sized company as a sales manager for seven years. He is responsible for five people. It would be unfair to say that Nick is lazy but his main interest in life is g... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Coming to an End
It is said that there are two certainties in life; death and taxes. However, it is just as certain that every job has a start and an end. At the end of the day, none of us live forever. Howeve... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Holiday Plan Ahead
This is the time of year when most of us think about going on holiday. How much we are entitled to can be a touchy subject. Time away from work is recognised as an important part of the work/l... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Holiday Pay
Workers are entitled as the law currently stands to four weeks’ paid holiday a year. Quite a lot of employers, particularly those who employ temporary, season or shift workers have adopt... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Money Laundering
Do you ever feel a deep sense of frustration when asked to supply utility bills, passports, birth certificates etc etc to prove to people who often know you well, that you are who you are and not so... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Sex Discrimination
Jon Loney, an employment lawyer at Foot Anstey highlights the latest case of sex discrimination This month a former male nurse won a case of Sex Discrimination against an NHS trust who refused... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : You’re fired!
Sir Alan Sugar certainly didn’t suffer fools gladly in this year’s TV series ‘The Apprentice’. His bullish style of peremptory dismissals made compelling viewing, and I for o... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Fixed Term Contracts
In June 2002, Gillian accepted a one year fixed term contract to work for a small publishing company as a graphic designer. At the end of the contract, she was offered a two year fixed term contract... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Part Time/Full Time
Jane works in a shop for twelve hours a week. She would like to work full-time but has children to run around after. One Saturday morning when she is working in the shop she gets chatting to Sara... Read more »

 

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