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News |
Speechly Bircham Employment Teams ranked in Legal 500
Speechly Bircham's employment team, including our immigration team, employee share schemes and pension teams have been recognised in the recent edition of the Legal 500...read more
New rights for working parents – Additional Paternity Leave
The Government has announced that it will shortly be consulting on new rights for working parents, entitling a mother who returns to work before using up all 52 weeks of maternity leave to transfer the unused maternity leave to the father...read more
Risks of employing overseas nationals without permission to work
The UK Border Agency confirmed that following an investigation, they will be imposing a civil penalty of £5,000 on Baroness Scotland as the employer of an individual who was not legally permitted to undertake work in the UK...read more
This month's top employment cases
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Length of service criterion in redundancy selection
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Establishing the Effective Date of Termination (EDT)
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New ruling makes proving a disability easier for employees
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Further guidance on TUPE service provision changes
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Time limit for unfair dismissal claim extended by new information
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The duty of confidentiality post termination
Click here to read brief summaries about these recent cases
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Insight |
MAC publishes report on UK's handling of skilled migrants
In response to a request by the former Home Secretary, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published a report on the new Points-Based System (PBS). Tracy Evlogidis, Head of Immigration, comments on the report...read more
Employment legislation calendar
Designed to keep you updated on legislation changes ...read more
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In the press |
Immigration report proposals will hinder employers if implemented
Employers will find it more difficult to recruit skilled migrants from overseas if the government accepts proposals to further tighten up the immigration system, Tracy Evlogidis has warned...read more
TUPE and offers of employment
Adam Partington answers a question regarding Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) protection for a GP...read more |