Government announces intention to change the working time regulations, TUPE and non-compete clauses By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias On 10 May the Government published a policy paper “Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy’ setting…
Government consultation on calculating holiday entitlement for part year workers - Public sector By Nick Chronias, Udara Ranasinghe The Government have issued a consultation paper to address the issues that have arisen out of the…
Industrial action: Repeal of laws preventing employers from hiring temporary workers during strike action now in force By Nick Chronias, Deborah Hely On 15 July we reported that the Government had laid legislation before parliament to enable…
COVID-19: Updated Government guidance: Reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace C+FS By Ceri Fuller, Nick Chronias, Rhian Greaves, On 1 April 2022 the Government released its promised, updated guidance for employers: Reducing…
Regulations requiring health and social care workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to be revoked from 15 March By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias On 1 February we reported that the Secretary of State for Health had announced that the requirement…
Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley: Supreme court judgment By Nick Chronias As we reported , in 2019 the Court of Appeal considered section 145B of the Trade Union Labour…
Employment Matters - September 2021 - Public Health By Hilary Larter, Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events…
Government launch consultation on making COVID-19 and flu vaccination mandatory in the health and wider social care sector By Hilary Larter, Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller On 9 September, the Government opened a six week public consultation on making vaccination a…
Employment Matters - September 2021 - Independent Health By Hilary Larter, Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events…
Brexit Workforce Implications: Webinar By Shahjahan Ali, Nick Chronias The Brexit Agreement has significant implications for many employers…
COVID-19 Vaccine: Can employers require employees to be vaccinated? - Health and Social Care By Joanne Bell, Udara Ranasinghe, Nick Chronias Health and social care workers are likely to welcome being vaccinated against COVID-19 given the…
Collective redundancies – ECJ decision on reference period By Nick Chronias, Joanne Bell The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed in UQ v Marclean Technologies SLU that in…
COVID-19: Impact of school closures and other recent developments employers need to know about (Health) By Joanne Bell, Udara Ranasinghe, Nick Chronias Following on from the Prime Minister’s announcement that schools will close for the majority of…
COVID-19: Briefing Bulletin - Health By Nick Chronias, Corinne Slingo, Charlotte Burnett, Alistair Robertson DAC Beachcroft is receiving an increasing number of client requests on Covid-19 issues…
Employment Matters - June 2019 By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events…
Unfair Dismissal: Dismissal of a Christian employee for proselytising was not unfair By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter An NHS Trust did not unfairly dismiss a Christian nurse who had continued to proselytise to…
Working Time: The ECJ holds that employers must have a system for measuring daily working time of all workers By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter The European Court of Justice has held that member states must require employers to set up a system…
Disability Discrimination: Blocking of internal posting for disabled employee was not disability discrimination By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter An employee with multiple disabilities did not suffer disability discrimination when an overseas…
Disability Discrimination: Knowledge of disability By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter The dismissal of an employee may have been discriminatory even though the employer only found out…
Unfair Dismissal: Employer's failure to follow its own informal disciplinary procedure resulted in constructive dismissal By Nick Chronias, Ceri Fuller, Hilary Larter An employee of an NHS Trust who resigned in response to the issuing of an informal “Improvement…
Court of Appeal confirms voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay under Agenda for Change (for NHS employers) By Nick Chronias, Joanne Bell The Court of Appeal has upheld the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in Flowers v East of…
Court of Appeal confirms regular voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay By Joanne Bell, Nick Chronias The Court of Appeal has upheld the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in Flowers v East of…
NHS Publishes Interim NHS People Plan By Katy Horner, Nick Chronias The Interim Plan outlines how the NHS needs to recruit, retain and develop staff to meet rapidly…
A workplace that reflects your community - Employment Webinar By Nick Chronias, Deborah Hely Research suggests that high performing workforces are diverse workforces…
