There has been lots of press coverage over the past few months about unpaid work and in particular internships. The Government has recently launched new guidance for interns on the issue of fair pay to help tackle some of the issues around knowledge. HMRC also appears to be taking a more proactive role. HMRC enforces […]
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TUPE regulations published
Further to my earlier blogs, the draft Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 have been published. They will be laid before Parliament in December and are expected to come into force in the New Year and will mostly affect transfers after this date. There are some transitional provisions relating to […]
The problem with Haringey
This blog is not about the rights and wrongs of the decision to dismiss Sharon Shoesmith following the Baby P case in Haringey, although I am sure many readers have a view on the subject. Instead, it is about the misreporting of the case itself. I am sure we have all read the press coverage […]
Confidentiality in Settlement Agreements
You may recall that there has been much press coverage over the past 12 months or so about the use of compromise agreements/settlement agreements particularly in the public sector where employees are being exited and asked to sign confidentiality clauses in return for their settlement. The use of “gagging clauses” is widespread but in the […]
Settlement Agreements
I often get asked what sort of amendments are usually needed to compromise agreements, which have of course been renamed settlement agreements. Well I can count on one hand the amount of times that I have signed a compromise agreement in its first draft. As it has been drafted by the employer, it is common […]
Improper behaviour in settlement discussions
Settlement discussions and pre-termination remain the hot topic at the moment as they bed into practice. The discussions are confidential and cannot be used in evidence in ordinary unfair dismissal cases. No such rules apply in automatically unfair dismissal cases or other claims such as discrimination claims. If the discussions arose out of an existing dispute […]