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The UK government has commissioned an inquiry into trade union tactics following a dispute at the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland …

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The UK’s Revenue and Customs service (HMRC) is cracking down on businesses employing unpaid interns …

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The UK government has proposed a new type of pension scheme known as a “defined ambition” pension scheme …

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The British Labour party has announced that if they win the next general election they will give companies tax rebates amounting to an average £445 per year for each worker whose salary is increased to the so-called “living wage” …

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A UK employer has recently been held liable by the Court of Appeal for failing to make guarantee payments to employees who had agreed to a decreased working time schedule …

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The UK Court of Appeal has released its judgment in the case of Coppage v Safety Net Services, stating that a clause preventing the former employee from soliciting any of the former employer’s business customers for six months after termination of the employment relationship was permissible …

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The UK Employment Appeals Tribunal has held that the provision of private medical treatment can come within the scope of “reasonable adjustments” that should be made by an employer to ensure a disabled employee is not at a disadvantage in the workplace …

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The UK health and safety claim procedure has been revised with the effect that employees can now only bring claims against their employer for specific breaches of health and safety legislation …

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Since October 1st, UK businesses no longer have to obtain the approval of the Health and Safety Executive in respect of their first-aid training and qualification provisions …

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The UK’s Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) were amended on October 1st …

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On October 1st new national minimum wage rates were introduced in the UK …

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The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has been granted permission to appeal against the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) decision in the Woolworths case …

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 Research carried out by Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC) has found that the annual average sickness absence in Europe (7 …

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Although the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is a British Crown Dependency, it does not have any redundancy legislation …

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The UK government has commissioned a review of its executive search voluntary code of conduct …

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