Speechly Bircham | Inform: Employment
November 2009 


- Shortage occupation list
- Changes to eligibility for British nationality

 - Equality Bill and Remuneration policies seminars
- Resident labour market tests

 - Fingerprint checks
- This month's top employment cases         
                                                                                                 

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Inform: Employment
Speechly Bircham

News

 

Equality Bill and Remuneration policies seminars

In order to help you prepare and proactively manage the wider HR challenges, we are pleased to invite you to attend these interactive seminar. The Equality Bill is set to be one of the most far reaching pieces of discrimination legislation...read more

 

Shortage occupation list – Migration Advisory Committee recommendations
The Migration Advisory Committee (the "MAC"), the body charged with reviewing and updating the shortage occupation list, has recently published a report setting out its proposed changes to the shortage occupation list...read more

 

Changes to eligibility for British nationality
The Government is currently in the process of overhauling the immigration rules relating to British nationality...read more 

 

Resident Labour Market test – amended advertising requirement to be introduced
Following the MAC's recommendations for changes to Tier 2 of the Points-Based System over the summer, the advertising requirement for meeting the Resident Labour Market test is to be extended from 14 December 2009...read more

 

Fingerprint checks to be introduced on entry to the UK
The UK Border Agency is introducing fingerprint checks for people arriving in the UK who hold a biometric UK visa, entry clearance or identity card for foreign nationals (ICFN) – this is therefore likely to affect many migrant workers from outside the EEA...read more

 

This month's top employment cases

  • Claiming further holiday if sick during holiday leave
  • Motive and race discrimination
  • Religion and belief discrimination
  • Depriving an employee of early retirement pension was age discriminatory
  • Justification for age discrimination
  • Whether ongoing pension loss should be awarded as compensation for unfair dismissal
  • Retirement and age discrimination
  • TUPE and material detriment
  • Constructive dismissal

Click here to read brief summaries about these recent cases

 

 

Insight

 

Can an employer dismiss to avoid enhanced pension benefits?

Recent months have seen a flurry of legal activity concerning the Age Discrimination legislation...read more 


 

In the press

 

Green triumph may lead others to cite non-religious beliefs in employment cases (published in City AM)

All those people who designated their religion as "Jedi Knight" in the last census may have delighted at the case of the so-called "eco-employee" last week.  The employee in question is Tim Nicholson, who formerly worked for residential landlord Grainger. Nicholson claims that he was made redundant because of his environmental beliefs, and has been given the green light to take his employer to court...read more


Downloads

Can an employer dismiss to avoid enhanced pension benefits.pdf - 73.06 kb
Sick on holiday - Take an extra holiday next year.pdf - 99.29 kb

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