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27/09/2006 : Statutory Disciplinary Procedure
I talked last week about the increasing importance of procedure in employment law. You may remember that the introduction of the statutory disciplinary procedure in October 2004 added a few more mines for employers to tread on. However, employees… »

27/09/2006 : The Importance of Procedure
In 1971, when the first laws relating to unfair dismissal were introduced the idea was that employees who believed that they had been unfairly dismissed would be able to present a claim in a relatively informal setting without the need to be represented… »

27/09/2006 : References
My advice to employees who intend to change jobs is that it is generally not in your interest to annoy or aggravate your current employer for no good reason, even when you already have another job offer in your hand. Burning your bridges is rarely a… »

27/09/2006 : Maternity
Maternity rights, a bit like parental leave and pay, generally only interest the young and employers but at the risk of boring those of us beyond child bearing age, I will try and set out an incredibly complicated set of rights as clearly as I can.… »

27/09/2006 : Parental Leave and Paternity Pay
If you have not got children and are not an employer, parental leave rights are probably about as exciting as going to the dentist. However, boring though it may seem, I won’t apologise for dealing with the subject of parental leave which… »

27/09/2006 : What price injured feelings
I mentioned last week a recent case in which a young woman whose boss made a pass at her, received £1,000 as compensation for her injured feelings. I suggested that Ms Walker’s award might have been higher were it not for the fact that the… »

27/09/2006 : 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 they have fallen out with the employer. But what… »

27/09/2006 : 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 person is an employee and what rights non-employees may… »

27/09/2006 : 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. The British Crime Survey estimates that in 2002/3… »

27/09/2006 : 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 day from exposure to secondary smoking in the workplace.… »

27/09/2006 : 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 there will be nobody left to turn the lights out, let… »

27/09/2006 : 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. But it is important to understand that it is more of… »

27/09/2006 : Modern Apprenticeships
The idea of apprentices has been around for a very long time – letting people learn their trade whilst getting on the job experience is something that benefits both employers and employees. The concept of apprenticeship has changed considerably… »

27/09/2006 : Expecting The Worst
I’ve mentioned that one of the pieces of advice I give out most frequently is that “pregnant women are bomb proof”. However, statistics show that some employers are not following that advice. The Equal Opportunities Commission… »

27/09/2006 : 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 being unfairly dismissed whereas full timers only had… »

27/09/2006 : 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 far easier if both parties understand their rights… »

27/09/2006 : 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 given notice of termination. As an employee, how much… »

27/09/2006 : 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 made him or her ill. A recent case is a classic illustration… »

27/09/2006 : 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 sympathy with workers sacked by the company that supply BA… »

27/09/2006 : 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 articles about the laws which affect all employees and… »

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