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UK: HR advice on disciplinary matters should be limited
HR should ensure that, when advising managers investigating or deciding on disciplinary matters, their advice is limited to matters of law and procedure, …
UK: Consultations on tax treatment of termination payments, IR35 and Sunday trading
The Summer Budget announced a number of forthcoming consultations which have now been published: The HMRC consultation on simplifying the tax and NICs …
Australia: ‘Repair, not replacement’ - Productivity Commission releases draft report on workplace relations framework
The Productivity Commission has released its draft report on the workplace relations framework, as part of its inquiry into the current performance of …
UK: Unfair dismissal - dismissal for attending work smelling of alcohol was unfair given failure to follow policies
Employers seeking to dismiss for misconduct should consider carefully whether the behaviour properly falls within the category of gross misconduct and …
UK: Contractual duties - no implied duty to disclose allegations of own misconduct
Employers wishing to ensure employees are subject to a duty to disclose allegations of sexual or other misconduct outside of that employment should …
UK: Peripatetic employee based abroad not entitled to bring statutory UK employment claims despite work here
Spending more time in England than any other country does not necessarily mean that a peripatetic employee can claim unfair dismissal here; the key …
UK: Higher standard of investigation may be required where contractual discretion to decide facts
Where an employer had a contractual discretion to decide whether an employee had committed suicide (and therefore whether his widow would receive death …
UK: Employers cannot rely on previous warning given in bad faith to justify dismissal
Employers considering dismissal in reliance on a previous 'live' disciplinary warning should ensure that any allegations that the warning was given in …
UK: Legislative changes April 2015 - family-related leave, rates, Acas Code
The new shared parental leave and pay regime came into operation on 5 April 2015 (applying to parents of children expected to be born, or placed for …
UK: Termination - employers can rely on historic repudiatory breach to dismiss summarily on discovery of the breach
Employers may be able to dismiss summarily and defeat a wrongful dismissal claim if they discover a repudiatory breach by the employee, even where the …
UK: Unfair dismissal - in depth investigation of employee's explanations for misconduct will not always be necessary
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the requirement that an employer carry out a reasonable investigation into allegations of misconduct (in order for any …
UK: new tribunal compensation limits and statutory benefit rates from April 2015
From 6 April 2015, the cap on the unfair dismissal compensatory award will increase from £76,574 to £78,335 and the cap on weekly pay (used to calculate …
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