July 2016 bulletin

  • Acas Code doesn’t apply to ill health
  • Immigration status and nationality distinguished
  • Immigration provisions come into force
  • Prosecuted for taking personal information
  • Victory for victims in modern slavery case
  • Crackdown on legal highs

June 2016 bulletin

  • Injury to Feelings Compensation for Breach of WTR?
  • An Unstable Picture for Young, Pregnant Women
  • Dismissal for Failure to Break Up was Discriminatory
  • Tighter Rules on Illegal Working
  • Destruction of Confidential Information
  • A Question of Status

May 2016 bulletin

  • Disciplinary wasn’t Discrimination
  • Incorporation of Company Policies
  • Transgender Discrimination
  • Restrictive Covenants Judged as at ‘Day One’
  • ‘Private’ Emails and Human Rights
  • Consultation on Pay

April 2016 bulletin

  • Letter to Sick Employee Led to Trouble
  • Public Interest Element of Whistleblowing
  • Exaggerated Injury, Fair Dismissal
  • Childcare Vouchers During Maternity Leave
  • What are Normal Day-to-Day Activities?
  • Employer Liability Extended

March 2016 bulletin

  • Lay-off reasonableness
  • Trouser-ban lifted at BA
  • Gender pay gap
  • Dyslexia at work
  • Door closed on Lock case?
  • Modern slavery

February 2016 bulletin

  • Monitoring employees’ messages
  • Legal highs at work
  • Rights for zero hours workers
  • Instruction to speak English wasn’t discriminatory
  • Disclosure of criminal convictions
  • An 84-hour working week can be lawful

January 2016 bulletin

  • Different disciplinary treatment could be justified
  • Negative references and discrimination
  • Transgender guidance
  • Bigger fines for corporate breaches
  • Attendance policy didn’t need adjusting
  • Preparing for a wage hike

December 2015 bulletin

  • What is redundancy?
  • Think through the process
  • Define your pool
  • Select
  • Consult
  • Suitable alternative employment
  • Dismiss?

November 2015 bulletin

  • Whistleblowing – the meaning of ‘public interest’
  • Zero hours guidance
  • In a group to TUPE?
  • The sleepworking conundrum
  • Companies have feelings too

October 2015 bulletin

  • West Oxfordshire Business Awards 2016
  • The Rugby World Cup 2015.
  • October changes
  • Working time for mobile workers
  • Enterprise Bill
  • TUPE transfer where activities continue
  • Sick employees and TUPE