Category:  Employment Law

New rights for fathers to attend antenatal appointments

New rules come into force on 1st October 2014 which will enable fathers to be and partners of pregnant women to take time off for antenatal appointments. Under the current...

ACAS Early Concilliation Launches

The new ACAS “Early Conciliation” (EC) scheme is now compulsory for almost all new potential tribunal claims. A worker cannot make a claim to an employment tribunal unless they have...

Flexible working changes

From 30 June 2014, the right to request flexible working is being extended to all employees. The right to flexible working currently applies to employees who have children under the...

Holiday pay payable on death of a worker, concludes ECJ

In the latest in a long line of cases about workers' holiday pay entitlement, the European Court of Justice in Bollacke v K+K Klaas & Kock BV & Co KG found that...

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