As the Excello Law data card goes to print and before I mail these out to clients’ a reminder that the limit on the week’s pay will increase from 6th April 2016 to £479 from the current limit of £475. This means that the maximum basic award will increase from £14,250 to £14,370 and the […]
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Can a lay-off only be for a reasonable period?
The EAT held in the recent case of Craig v Bob Lindfield & Sons that there is no implied term as to reasonableness so far as the length of lay off was concerned but also went onto find in this case that the period of four-week’s experienced by Mr Craig was not unreasonable in all […]
Failing to give notice of redundancies
BIS has failed in its prosecution of three directors of City Link for failing to give notice of redundancies. The directors were alleged to have failed to give sufficient notice for redundancy plans under section 194 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. City Link went into administration on Christmas Eve last year […]
When to consult?
One of the key questions on an advisory basis for employers is when does the duty to consult arise. The short answer is when the proposal is at a formative stage but the EAT recently considered the matter in the case of Ivor Hughes Educational Foundation v Morris [2014] in the case of a collective […]
ECJ delivers Woolworths Decision
The long awaited decision from the ECJ was handed down this morning in the Woolworths case. The central issue for the ECJ to determine for the purposes of collective consultation whether each store was an establishment or the pool should be bigger. The ECJ has stated that it refers to the individual’s workplace not the […]