Just Employment Law Blog

Employment law reform has recently become a hot topic for the mainstream political media in a way that perhaps we have not seen since the 1970s. The reforms to unfair dismissal law and tribunal procedure proposed by the coalition last week are set to have a significant impact on employment rights for employers and employees alike...

Regular readers of our updates will know that (subject to transitional arrangements where the process started prior to 6 April this year) it is no longer possible for UK employers to compulsorily retire employees at a particular age unless they are able to establish an ‘employer-justified’ retirement age...

Yesterday, the government opened a consultation process on further reforms to a number of key areas of employment law. Some of the more interesting reforms relate to annual holidays and the sharing of leave between parents following the birth of a child...

With the approaching abolition of the national default retirement age of 65 on 6 April 2011, we have compiled below answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about compulsorily retiring your employees...

Some of the Most Significant Employment Law Advances of 2010 have been...

A Judgement has been issued by The Supreme Court on when exactly the dismissal of an employee takes effect . This determines the date the employee must be paid until, and it may also have relevance to the question of whether someone has sufficient continuous employment to bring an employment tribunal claim....

The Government Equalities Office has published a list of the provisionsof the Equality Act 2010 which will come into force on 1 October 2010.The majority of the provisions will come into force on this date,including section 60 prohibiting employers from asking pre-employmenthealth questions.

The Government has begun the consultation process on its plan to abolish the Default Retirement Age (DRA) of 65 on 6 April 2011. From that date, it is expected that employers will no longer have the automatic right to issue notices of retirement to employees who have reached or who are approaching the age of 65...

For families expecting the arrival of a baby on or after 3 April 2011, new Regulations will be in force enabling the mother to transfer some of her maternity leave to the father as Additional Paternity Leave...

A press release published on the Government Equalities Office’s website has now confirmed that the first provisions of the Equality Act will be implemented on 1 October 2010...