Whilst things have escalated in the Middle East those clients with employees there have been closely monitoring the situation now for some time. Before any overseas deployment there is much to organise not just travel paperwork and visas. Some destinations require additional vaccinations and a risk assessment should always be carried out before any deployment […]
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Employers’ liability for fraud
A new offence of ‘failure to prevent fraud’ has been created under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. Under the Act an organisation will be criminally liable if an employee commits a fraud intending to benefit the organisation (ie the employer). Similar to harassment, there is a reasonable steps defence if the organisation […]
New ACAS Guide for making reasonable adjustments for mental health
In what is national stress awareness month, ACAS has launched a new guide on making reasonable adjustments for mental health at work. It gives guidance for employers as to what reasonable adjustments are with examples and how to respond to requests for reasonable adjustments for mental health reasons and how best to manage employees with […]
Are restrictive covenants enforceable?
This is the million dollar question. It depends on whether the restrictions only go so far as is necessary to protect the business’ proprietary interest. There are many arguments on both sides about protecting the business assets when staff leave and preventing solicitation and poaching when acting for the employer and being able to freely […]
ACAS early conciliation extension
The 1st December 2020 brought not only the start of advent and the Elf on the Shelf for some but for employment lawyers saw changes made to the time periods for early conciliation through ACAS. ACAS early conciliation is mandatory before employees start many of the common employment law claims in the Employment Tribunal […]
Employment Law in 2017
Firstly, Happy New Year to all my followers. I hope 2017 is a year filled with happiness, prosperity and health – not necessarily in that order! 2017 was a great year in which we strengthened the support team and the support services. Excello won some awards and we had some great victories for clients whether […]
Apprenticeship Levy
There has been surprisingly little publicity over the Government’s draft bill which will introduce the apprenticeship levy. Over recent years there has been a lot of funding and initiatives to encourage businesses to take apprentices. This has been partly due to the unemployment crisis of the young. The new levy is expected to come into force […]
Key decisions in 2016
We await a number of key decisions in 2016 which may change the scope of employment law issues. Amongst these decisions are the Court of Appeal decisions on whether or not the uplift of 10% applies to injury to feelings awards (Vento guidelines) for discrimination claims. We currently have two EAT decisions in favour and […]
Labour Leadership Contest
As the press is dominated by the race for the next Labour leader, I noted with interest that Jeremy Corbyn has set out his vision for the future government in equality policy. Jeremy Corbyn is seen as the favourite to take over the party in the opinion polls. The highlights of his policy are that […]
Freedom to choose your representative in legal expenses insurance
It has long been established that under Directive 87/344/EC policyholders have the right to a free choice of representative in legal proceedings. The trouble is that this is often difficult to secure as insurers insist that legal proceedings are only after issue and a policyholder should use their panel solicitor notwithstanding the geography and that […]
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