Sheffield’s Taylor&Emmet LLP is expanding the in-house services it offers from its new Rotherham office, with the appointment of a local family law specialist. Dawn Lowry has joined the firm to provide advice on all aspects of family law, including domestic abuse, as well as Legal Aid funded mediation. Having Read more…
“We have invited an employee to attend a disciplinary hearing and they have asked to have a lawyer present. Can we refuse?” Workers and employees have the legal right to be accompanied by either a colleague or a trade union representative at a disciplinary or grievance hearing. The workplace does Read more…
“I have employed someone on a part-time basis for the last year and they keep asking me to give them a contract of employment. Am I obliged to do this?” No individual, regardless of their employment status is entitled to a contract of employment. If however, the individual you employ Read more…
“I have worked for my employer for one year but today my boss came in to my office and told me that as the company had lost a big contract, they could no longer afford to employ me. I was told that I could go home immediately and that the Read more…
I am a self-employed plumber working for a company and have heard that the Pimlico Plumbers are entitled to a big pay out of holiday pay because they are not actually self-employed. As I am a plumber does this mean the same for me? You will normally only have an Read more…
A headline in The Times last week caught my eye. “Tribunals gridlocked by surge in claims” it shouted at me, as I perused the paper over lunch. Yes, we might be experiencing some delays in the tribunal service currently, but certainly here in South Yorkshire, to call them “gridlocked” would Read more…
If you are a regular reader of our blogs, you may have noticed our frequent updates regarding the pay workers receive to conduct sleep-in shifts and whether it should be paid at the relevant National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (referred to collectively as “NMW” in this post) rate as Read more…
On 23 November 2017, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his Autumn 2017 budget. Below are the key employment law considerations. National Living Wage and National Minimum wage rates are due to increase in April 2018. They are due to change as follows: Age Group Current Rate Proposed April 2018 Read more…
In a momentous ruling the Supreme Court have ruled that the Government’s policy of requiring Claimants to pay fees to bring a claim in the Employment Tribunal is unlawful. Tribunal fees were deemed unlawful because they prevent access to justice and because they are indirectly discriminatory, particularly against women who are more likely to work part time and are therefore Read more…
This is the latest in a series of blogs about the so-called “gig economy” and the rise in flexible jobs which do not neatly fall into any of the existing definition of employment status. In a move to address this issue the Government commissioned the Taylor report which has recently been published. Read more…