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• Fire Brigade Union Industrial Action - 25th September

  23/09/2013
  On the 25th September the Fire Brigade Union will undertake industrial action between 12:00 and 16:00 in England & Wales...

• Sickness Absence and Holiday Pay

  18/09/2013
  In July 2012, the Court of Appeal ruled that an employee on long-term sick leave is entitled to carry holiday leave forward to the next year, even if no specific request had been made to do so...

• Changes to RIDDOR

  11/09/2013
  Subject to Parliamentary approval, the Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR) are about to take effect...

• Third Party Harrassment Law Repealed

  11/09/2013
  Under the Equality Act 2010 an employer can be vicariously liable for harassment by a third party (such as a customer or a contractor) if (a) that third party had harassed an employee on at least two previous occasions; and (b) the employer had failed to take reasonably practicable steps to stop the harassment...

• Tupe Consultation - Government Response Published

  06/09/2013
  Earlier this year the government launched it consultation to seek views on a number of proposals to amend the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations...

• Custom & Practice and Enhanced Redundancy Payments

  05/09/2013
  The recent case of Shumba & others v Park Cakes Ltd (31st July 2013) provided guidance on when payments can become contractually binding through custom and practice...

• £40,000.00 for failure to assess legionaires disease

  02/09/2013
  A private care home has been ordered to pay £40,000 in fines and costs after it failed to manage the risk of elderly residents...