UK employment law enews - 2001 articles

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December 17 2001 E-News
* The Dignity at Work Bill 2001
* Women's employment and pay
* The right to an enhanced redundancy package
* Christmas festivities

December 3 2001 E-News
* Disability discrimination - duty to consider possible adjustments
* Banker sacked for dyslexia taunts seeks £500,000.00
* Offended employee awarded £7,000.00
* New rights to force employers to consider part-time work requests
* Employee sacked for smoking at home

November 16 2001 E-News
* The Employment Bill 2001
* Contract frustrated by long-term sickness
* Need to warn and consult in a redundancy situation
* Long hours stress for British workers

November 5 2001 E-News
* Timing of redundancy consultation
* Employees blow the whistle on Stakeholders
* Workplace consultation concessions won by the UK Government overturned
* Data Protection Act now fully in force

October 19 2001 E-News
* Data protection - main provisions in force from 24 October 2001
* Parental leave - government response to consultation
* Can refusal to provide a job reference amount to unlawful victimisation
* ECJ protects mothers on fixed term contracts
* Autumn employment seminars

October 5 2001 E-News
* Businesses begin to feel the effects of terrorist attacks in US
* Working time regulations to change on 25th October
* National minimum wage increases
* Don't forget the stakeholder pension
* Autumn employment seminars

September 21 2001 E-News
* Discrimination cases on the increase
* Reversal of burden of proof in sex discrimination
* Employees' stress a worldwide problem
* Proposed TUPE regulations reform
* Autumn employment seminars

September 7 2001 E-News
* Could you be sued if you call an employee at home?
* £140,000 for an employee suffering from stress
* New EOC guidance on sexual harassment
* E-mail results in claims against city solicitors
* Autumn employment seminars< /FONT>

August 24 2001 E-News
* Equal pay
* Requests to work part-time
* Drug misuse at work
* Data protection act - delayed publication of code of practice

August 16 2001 E-News
* Radio presenter wins race discrimination claim
* Statutory annual leave when employment ends
* New sex discrimination regulations

July 30 2001 E-News
* New tribunal procedures
* Tribunal reforms - consultation document
* Passive smoking at work
* Upper qualifying age decision

July 13 2001 E-News
* Employers to have more time to prepare for the fixed term employees regulations; Changes to the working time regulations; Compensation for ill health dismissals; No race discrimination post-employment

June 29 2001 E-News
* When is an employer liable for the acts of their employees? Government announces consultation on changes to the working time regulations; Guidance for managers tackling stressed employees; National minimum wage increase; New ACAS arbitration scheme; Steele & Co redundancy training workshop

June 21 2001 E-News
* EC approves proposed directive; Further payment for victimised prison officer; Is homosexuality covered by the Sex Discrimination Act? Dress codes - getting the balance right; Steele & Co Redundancy Training Workshops

June 1 2001 E-News
* No claims for alleged acts of discrimination occurring after dismissal; Stobart's ordered to pay staff who lost jobs; Europe looks set to demand more consultation with workers; Calls for directive on fixed term workers to be delayed; Steele & Co. Employment Law Briefings; Steele & Co. Redundancy Training Workshop & Summer Employment Law

May 18 2001 E-News
* Legal secretary's complaint of sex discrimination upheld by tribunal; ACAS hit by sex discrimination claims from two-thirds of its workforce; Statutory code of practice on avoiding race discrimination in recruitment; HSE claims £600 million saving to businesses in preventable incidents

May 9 2001 E-News
* Injury to feelings and unfair dismissal; Increased maternity rights; Government back down over parental leave restrictions; Whistle blower awarded £140,000

April 20 2001 E-News

* TUPE situations and constructive dismissal; Discriminatory redundancy policy - burden on employer; Increase in number of bank holidays; Disciplinary procedures and admitted misconduct; News that didn't happen - Employee Consultation Rights Bill - Debate Adjourned, Employment Tribunal Regulations

April 6 2001 E-News

* IR35 rules do not breach convention or EU law; New employment tribunal legislation; Proposal for new fixed-time work regulations; Calls for mandatory pay reviews are rejected; Refusal to work from home was unlawful indirect discrimination

March 23 2001 E-News

* Professional contractors group challenge IR35; Employees' unaware of e-mail laws; E-mail banned on Fridays; "Office jokes" lead to £5,000 compensation; Employment status of agency workers - further confusion; Jail sentences for serious sexual harassment

March 9 2001 E-News

* Budget boost for working parents; Beards are not suitable for a coffee shop; National Minimum Wage increase; Proposed extension of DDA; The pitfalls of entering into compromise agreements

February 23 2001 E-News

* Age discrimination - the way forward; Increase in SSP & SMP; Increase in maximum tribunal deposit; Retirement age: plans to abolish the national age of retirement; £350,000 award in race discrimination case; Paid paternity leave vs. returning to work part-time

February 9 2001 E-News

* Government reform of Employment Agency Regulations; Claims of racial abuse from city broker; 13 week rule for holiday entitlement is unlawful; Age discrimination - publication of European Code of Practice; Back dated pensions

January 26 2001 E-News

* Increase in tribunal awards & redundancy pay; National minimum wage; Huge increase in employment tribunal claims; 'Groping' boss made lewd remarks

January 12 2001 E-News

* STAKE HOLDER PENSIONS; FORTHCOMING SEMINARS FROM STEELE & CO; WHEN IS AN EMPLOYEE NOT AN EMPLOYEE? RETURN FROM MATERNITY LEAVE.

January 2 2001 E-News

* EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL AWARD £150,000 TO SIKH POLICE OFFICER; LAW FIRM DISCIPLINES FOR EXPLICIT E-MAILS; PARENTS CAMPAIGN FOR PAID PARENTAL LEAVE.