If so, it’s about to get even more complicated!! Next month, there are a number of key changes taking place including the following:
Whistleblowing – important changes
After 6 April 2010, Employment Tribunals will have the power to pass on whistleblowing allegations (made under the Public Interest Disclosure Act) to a prescribed regulator. Claimants will be able [...]

Yesterday, Christine Pratt, CEO of The National Bullying Helpline,  claimed several people in Gordon Brown’s office had contacted her anti-bullying charity.  According to Ms Pratt, “three or four” calls had been made to the National Bullying Helpline in recent years and BBC political correspondent Norman Smith said it was understood one of the individuals involved [...]

At EmployEasily HR we recognise that, for busy business people like you, complying with uk employment law can be a distraction that takes your focus away from growing your business.
So to save you time and help you avoid costly employment tribunals, we plan to host a series of Employment Law seminars towards the end of [...]

Dunfermlinepress.com reported last week that Dunfermline Electronics firm Simclar International Ltd have been ordered to pay Alexander Shand £8009 after an Employment Tribunal panel concluded the his sacking for failing to clock out to attend a hospital appointment was unfair.
Remarkably, the firm’s original decision to dismiss Mr Shand for ‘gross misconduct’ was upheld following an [...]

A pilot for a new case management system for Employment Tribunals and ACAS Individual Conciliation called Caseflow started in the Nottingham Employment Tribunal and ACAS offices in late November 2009.
The main goal of this initiative is to deliver improvements in efficiency and effectiveness by replacing the current paper based system with an electronic one where [...]

A nurse facing disciplinary action for wearing a cross necklace has accepted redeployment and instructed her lawyers to file a claim of discrimination.
The nurse was asked to remove a cross by her employers on the grounds of safety and uniform policy. The nurse appeared on GMTV this week, and has claimed she was unaware [...]

A judge will rule this week whether a default retirement age of 65 is necessary to the UK government’s social or employment policy objectives, bringing to an end a lengthy legal process that has been running for almost three years.
Hundreds of employment tribunals are on hold until this case clarifies the law, with millions of [...]

A Muslim cocktail waitress has won damages after refusing to wear a skimpy dress. Fata Lemes resigned from her job at the Rocket Bar in Mayfair when she was asked to wear a red dress which she claimed made her look like a prostitute. She later took the owners to a tribunal, winning over £2000 [...]