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Last week saw economic Armageddon displaced from the news headlines by the furore over the ill-judged messages left by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Andrew Sachs’ answerphone. The messages involved lewd remarks about Sachs’ grand-daughter Georgina...
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The Government has announced plans to outlaw the practice under which restaurants pay staff a basic wage below the national minimum wage and make up the rest of it in tips left by customers. New law The new law is set to come into effect next year and...
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Earlier this week, the Times Online reported that a worker at Marks & Spencer ( M&S ) had been suspended after he “blew the whistle” on M&S’s plans to cut its enhanced redundancy payouts by up to 25%. According to the Times Online, the new...
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The UK Border Agency is now part way through introducing the Points-Based System (the PBS), details of which we provided in our article on the 3 of June. The launch date for Tier 2 of the PBS, which will replace the work permit scheme, is now set for...
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Name of weekly column: Speechly Speak Name of this week's contributor: Anne-Marie Balfour , solicitor, Speechly Bircham Last week the Government announced new plans to protect vulnerable workers in what it described as “dark corners of the labour...
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Not for the first time this year, the UK has been put it in its place by the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) over its interpretation of EU equal treatment legislation. It's now generally the case that employees are protected from discrimination...
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Name of weekly column: Speechly Speak Name of this week's contributor: John Brandon , Speechly Bircham The acceptance of a standard business dress code has always had the advantage of employees knowing what an acceptable standard of dress is. However...
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Name of weekly column: Speechly Speak This week's contributor: Eliza Nash solicitor, Speechly Bircham Dragon Den's Theo Paphitis’ recently made his attitude to pregnant women combining their careers with families and their ability to cope with...
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