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Bonus Hysteria vs Expenses Sleaze
The recent indignity suffered by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith over her husband’s viewing of two “adult” films, which she then submitted as part of her parliamentary expenses claim got me thinking again...
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Daniel Barnett’s fundraising project
Daniel Barnett is a barrister specialising in employment law. He provides a very useful (free) email update service called Employment Law Bulletin. it covers latest developments in the area and the...
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Statutory Redundancy Pay to increase
As you will probably have heard by now, the Chancellor announced an increase to Statutory Redundancy Payment in the Budget yesterday, from the current figure of £350 to £380 per week. He hasn’t said...
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Monday musings
Apologies for the recent silence. Last week I took Mrs J. and the Junior Jobsworths to Southwold, Suffolk, for a brief holiday. I had every good intention of posting whilst away but couldn’t get WiFi...
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BA is in the news again …
BA has been in the news … again and, as usual, for all the wrong reasons. The company formerly claiming to be the world’s favourite airline has now asked 40,000 of its staff to not just take a pay cut...
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Swine Flu – should employers worry about being sued?
Thanks to Annabel Kaye of Irenicon (@AnnabelKaye) for bringing the article in MailOnline to my attention, via Twitter. The full article can be found at...
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More on Swine Flu
Well, since I jumped on the Swine Flu bandwagon with my post last week, I thought I better stay there for a bit longer. In that post I wondered just what precautions an employer could be expected to...
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Further advice on swine flu
Personnel Today, a very useful website for HR and employment law matters has published an article on what steps employers can take – click here to visit it. There are also RSS feeds so you should have...
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Bonus Rage and Clawbacks
Unusually for an August the topic of bonuses is back in the news pages. This isn’t surprising given that the recession has been firmly blamed on reckless bankers supposedly taking unnecessary risks to...
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Riam wins
I was pleased to learn that Riam Dean, the law student who sued Abercrombie & Fitch for wrongful dismissal and unlawful harassment (because of her disability) won her case at the London Central...
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