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Published: 27.09.06 : Part Timers Know Your Rights
In the bad old days part time workers were entitled to feel like second class citizens from an employment law point of view. For example, they had to work for five years before being protected from ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Leaving Employment Part 1
The end of an employment relationship can be a difficult time for employees and employers alike. How difficult rather depends on who is ending it, why it is ending and how it is done. It can be made... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Leaving Employment Part 2
Generally, employees are not protected from being unfairly dismissed in the first year of their employment. However, unless they are guilty of gross misconduct, all employees have a right to be give... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Stressed Out
When an employee becomes too ill to work because of stress, not only is it very unpleasant for the employee concerned, it can often leave employers exposed to a claim that the employee’s work m... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Dismissal During An Industrial Dispute
There you are booked on your annual holiday, about to fly with British Airways, everything looking good until you find that your flight is cancelled. Why? Because BA staff have walked out in sympath... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Fundamental Employment Laws
Having written this column for some time, I think it’s time to get back to basics; a much misused and maligned expression. For a column about employment law, “basics” means a... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Safeguarding National Security
There is sometimes a fine line to be drawn between protecting the majority and the rights of individuals. Recent acts of terrorism have probably altered where most of us think that line should be dr... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Unfair Dismissal – Is It Worth It?
Last week I talked about basic unfair dismissal, concentrating on what an employee who has been dismissed needs to understand when bringing a complaint before an Employment Tribunal. Today I will co... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Equal Pay
It is an absolute scandal that women working full time only earn on average 81% of what men working full time earn. Women working part time earn even less. This state of affairs exists even th... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : The Christmas Party
Christmas is a time of year that most people look forward to, despite the fact that preparations seem to start in September these days! The majority of organisations do something to ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Paternity Leave Explained
I had not intended to write about paternity leave this week until I read a report from the Citizens Advice Bureau, the national charity that provides free legal advice, showing that many fathers are... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : To Tell or Not to Tell
What happens when an employee knows that a colleague is ripping their employer off or otherwise deliberately damaging the Company they both work for? The employee in the know has a bit of a mo... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Coping at Work
What do you do when you cannot cope at work? Our working lives are like a long road without many rest stops, or at least that’s how it can seem at times. There is a relentless pressure on most... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Turning a Blind Eye
Everyone does something stupid sometimes, often unintentionally.  However, when this happens in a work context, the outcome can be quite serious in all sorts of ways.  Let’s look at a... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Jumping too Early
We live in an age of continual and rapid change. This affects all of us in all sorts of ways. Whether you think this is good or bad, it’s a fact of life that is best dealt with by positive thi... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Paid on Time?
The recent case of Elizabeth Claire Care Management v Francis is a salutary lesson for employers who are a bit slapdash when it comes to when they pay their staff. Ms Francis worked in a care ... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : More About Race
Last week I wrote about race discrimination.  It goes without saying that the Race Relations Act protects everyone not just people from ethnic minorities.  However, I do sometimes wonder wh... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Race Discrimination
Race relations have always been a complicated subject, however, in the current climate it’s fraught with difficulty.  The Race Relations Act 1976 is an important piece of employment legisl... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Work and Families
You may have heard recently that the Government’s Work and Families Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 18 October.  It is yet another piece of radical employee-friendly legisla... Read more »

Published: 27.09.06 : Sex Discrimination Part 1
The second ‘big’ employment law issue that I will cover in this series of articles is sex discrimination. This generally gets splashed across national newspaper headlines when a victim g... Read more »

 

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