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UAE: Mandatory end of service payments - what are employees entitled to on termination?
A recent ruling of the UAE Ministry of Justice has confirmed that it is not lawful for an employer to agree with its employees to avoid the end of …
UK: New resources - September 2011
Acas guidance on social networking, including tips on drawing up a social networking policy ET and EAT statistics for 2010-2011 show a 15% …
EU Directive on temporary agency workers in force
On 1 October 2011 UK regulations implementing the EU Directive on temporary agency workers came into force. Both agencies and employers hiring agency …
UK: National minimum wage rates
The national minimum wage changes from 1 October. The hourly rate increases to £6.08 for workers aged 21 and over, £4.98 for workers aged 18-20, …
UK: Executive remuneration – new ABI principles and BIS discussion paper
The ABI has published new executive remuneration guidelines, while BIS has published a discussion paper on the governance of executive remuneration in …
UK: FSA announces consultation on Remuneration Code guidance
On 5 August 2011, the FSA announced a four week consultation in respect of two proposed 'Dear CEO' letters, which set out further draft guidance to …
Unfair dismissal: UK rights for employees abroad
The Supreme Court has ruled that teachers employed by a UK government department and working abroad in European Schools had a sufficiently close …
UK: Equal pay - employers may not need to freeze comparator's pay to remove TUPE-related pay disparity
Where a pay disparity arises on a TUPE transfer (eg, due to higher transferor pay levels), this may provide the transferee employer with a "material …
UK: Holiday - statutory entitlement carried over when employee sick for full year
The EAT has confirmed that statutory holiday entitlement can be carried over to the following holiday year (notwithstanding that this conflicts with the …
UK: Retirement - requests to continue working must be considered in good faith
The EAT has upheld a tribunal ruling that requests to continue working past retirement age (under the now defunct default retirement age statutory …
UK: Employment status - reality of relationship trumps contractual terms; arbitrators not employees under discrimination law
The Supreme Court has confirmed that the employment status of an individual will be determined by the reality of their relationship with the …
UK: Sexual orientation - discussing employee's homosexuality may not be unlawful
The Court of Appeal has ruled that it will not necessarily be unlawful discrimination for a manager to mention an employee's homosexuality to others …
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