Papers

THE SOCIAL RIGHT TO PAID ANNUAL LEAVE: SICK WORKERS AND LEVEL OF PAY
Michael Ford, Old Square Chambers

January 8, 2013

The social right to paid annual leave owes its origin to Article 7 of the Working Time Directive 93/104/EC, now in the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC, implemented in UK law by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (“WTR”)....

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THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 AND EMPLOYMENT LAW: TIME TO BRING RIGHTS HOME?
Paul Draycott, Doughty Street Chambers

December 11, 2012

The passing of the Human Rights Act (‘the HRA 1998’) represented a momentous change to the British Legal System and has had a far reaching effect upon many areas of law, such as domestic family, public and immigration law. At [101] of ...

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TUPE: YOU CAN PRVE ANYTHING WITH FACTS
Charles Wynn-Evans, Dechert LLP

December 4, 2012

(some) TUPE Themes since 2006 1. INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION WHICH EMPLOYEES ARE AFFECTED? UNISON v Somerset County Council and others [2010] IRLR 207, EAT per Bean J at para 21 We conclude that the "affected employees" are tho...

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INTERPRETING EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Professor Gwyneth Pitt, Kingston University, London

October 23, 2012

Three areas to consider Termination of employment contracts Incorporation of terms and their interpretation Sham contracts Find out more.......

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KEY EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW CASES FOR 2012-2013
Michael Rubenstein

October 11, 2012

Michael's handout provides a list of cases to which he referred to during his talk to the Society in October 2012 which covered the following subjects: Contracts of Employment; Employment Status; Unfair dismissal; Redundancy; Transfer ...

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORK
Roger Bull, Burges Salmon LLP

May 19, 2012

In September 2011, the employment relations body ACAS published a series of factsheets covering the topic of social networking and social media in the workplace. These factsheets, together with a report on social media and its impact on emp...

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THE LAW OF COLLECTIVE REDUNDANCIES AND CUTTING PAY AND CONDITIONS AFTER BUDGET CUTS
Richard Carr, Chief Executive, Central Bedfordshire Council

September 18, 2011

The statutory duties on employers to inform and consult the workforce about proposed redundancies contained in Part IV, Chapter II of Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“TULRCA”) were introduced in order to imple...

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THE LAW OF COLLECTIVE REDUNDNACIES AND CUTTING PAY AND CONDITIONS AFTER THE BUDGET CUTS: TOO MUCH RED TAPE FOR NO REAL PROTECTION?
Gail Cartmail, Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union

September 18, 2011

Unite & unionisation · Public sector membership – types of job groups · Benefits of unionisation and collective bargaining to employers, to workers, to society · Unite’s position on the budget cuts & what we are trying t...

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12 STEPS TO MNAGING AND RECOVERING (FROM AND IN) COMPLEX DISCRIMINATION CASES
Arpita Dutt, Partner, Employment Department, Russell Jones & Walker and Alison Wetherfield, Partner, Employment Department, McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

September 17, 2011

What's complex? • Significant financial loss/high value • Damage to reputation • Mission Creep – multiple causes and facts...

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ENGLISH EMPLOYMENT LAW: THE UK’S NEW EXPORT? LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN CROSS-BORDER APPLICATION
Jonathan Chamberlain, Partner, Employment Team, Wragge & Co LLP; and Jacques Algazy, Cloisters

September 17, 2011

History Section 196 Employment Rights Act 1996: “2. The provisions to which this subsection applies do not apply to employment where under the employee’s contract of employment he ordinarily works outside Great Britain” Secti...

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KEY EMPLOYMENT CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT
Thomas Linden QC, Matrix

September 17, 2011

This paper covers, in summary form, most of the employment law UKSC decisions handed down or in the pipeline in 2011. The oral presentation will focus on the following cases... Autoclenz v Belcher & Others [2011] UKSC 41 Jivraj v ...

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RETIRING GRACEFULLY: AGE DISCRIMINATION, RETIREMENT AND EU AW
Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law, University of Cambridge

September 17, 2011

•British pensions (low and means tested) introduced in 1908 mainly for women as an alternative to poor relief •Beveridge proposed flexible retirement but Atlee government disagreed...

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EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WHEN THE LAW ISN’T ENOUGH
Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission

September 16, 2011

....I want to say thank you to the lawyers; and second, I want to quote from the Guardian newspaper. It's from an editorial on November 10th 2005 reflecting on the course of race relations forty years on from the passage of the first recogn...

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THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT WORK
Dr Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL, Faculty of Laws

September 16, 2011

1. Human rights at work: Bridging the gap between civil and political rights and economic and social rights? a) Access to work b) Fair working conditions c) Protection from unfair dismissal d) Trade union rights 2. The ex...

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