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27/09/2006 : 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 to allow him to carry out routine procedures on female… »

27/09/2006 : 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 one was glued to my TV. However, such a management… »

27/09/2006 : 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. Gillian was hoping to be offered a permanent job but… »

27/09/2006 : 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 Sarah who works full-time. Jane is disgusted to learn that… »

27/09/2006 : Unfair Dismissal
The vast majority of employment related claims that employees make against employers are for unfair dismissal. Surprisingly there is still quite a lot of confusion as to what the unfair dismissal rules are. So here are the basic principles.… »

27/09/2006 : Unfair Dismissal – Time Limits
The way of the world is that everything seems to get more complicated. Things that were once simple are “improved” and, in the process, become extremely confusing. Let me give you an example of what I mean and see what you think. The… »

27/09/2006 : Religion Or Belief
In addition to sex, race and disability it has been unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of religious belief and sexual orientation since December 2003. Since that time, there have only been 377 religious or belief discrimination claims made… »

27/09/2006 : Working Time Regulations and the National Minimum Wage Act
Laws such as the Working Time Regulations and the National Minimum Wage Act tend to get overlooked by people in the context of employment law, in favour of “sexier” subjects such as discrimination. However, these rather bread and butter laws… »

27/09/2006 : Is it fair or not?
Andy, a young graduate, found it difficult to find a job after leaving university; he was delighted when he was offered a job in the accounts department of a small company as an accounts clerk. He started work on 1 January 2005. On the same day Lorraine… »

27/09/2006 : 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 being refused paternity leave because they fail to… »

27/09/2006 : 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 moral dilemma. Does he tell the employer or not? If he… »

27/09/2006 : 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 employees to perform at a consistently high level which… »

27/09/2006 : 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 an example. Alan and Colin work in a warehouse, it’s… »

27/09/2006 : 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 thinking. In employment jobs are constantly changing,… »

27/09/2006 : 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 home and her salary was payable on the first day of… »

27/09/2006 : 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 whether there is enough common sense in the writing and… »

27/09/2006 : 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 legislation, which is why I want to revisit it today.… »

27/09/2006 : 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 legislation that will delight the unions and horrify many… »

27/09/2006 : 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 gets an award that looks more like a lottery win than… »

27/09/2006 : 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 employment law as maternity rights.  I do not plan… »

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