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Employment Rights Bill – increasing time limits for tribunal claims
The Employment Rights Bill is about to reach the stage when the Commons Committee considers proposed amendents. Some of these are proposed by the opposition but I don’t think we need to spend too much time on them. They are … Continue reading
Fire and Rehire – Unintended Consequences of the Employment Rights Bill
The Employment Rights Bill is about to enter into the part of the Parliamentary process where the Government will consider amendments. This is not something it needs to do in order to ensure the Bill is passed. With a huge … Continue reading
Labour’s Plans for Employment Law – Other Stuff
I’ve now written three posts setting out Labour’s plans for employment law set out in its document “Labour’s Plans to Make Work Pay”. I’ve looked at trade union law, individual employment rights and equality and family-related issues. Ahead of the … Continue reading
Labour’s Plans for Equality Law
Labour’s policy document published at the beginning of the election campaign – “Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay” – has so much detail in it that I have already written about it in two posts. The first looked at trade union … Continue reading
Labour’s Plans for Employment Rights
In my last post I looked at the new measures Labour is proposing in the field of trade union law. In this post I am going to look at individual employment rights, with proposals on discrimination and family-based rights coming … Continue reading
Labour’s Plans for Trade Union Law
I refuse to believe that Sharon Graham, General Secretary of the Unite the union is genuinely unhappy about Labour’s plans for employment law. An updated plan was published by the Labour party on Friday and she was reported as saying … Continue reading
Ending the “sick-note culture”
The Prime Minister gave a speech on Friday proposing to tackle our “sick note culture”. Probably the most significant proposals made were to do with the wider issue of benefits for those were economically inactive because of long-term ill-health. Those … Continue reading
A Range of Reasonable Responses 