Laurie Anstis

The Queen’s Speech 2013 – employment law proposals

2013-05-08T11:20:25Z

The government has just issued its background briefing on the 2013 Queen’s Speech. Of interest to employment lawyers and HR managers are: 1 The National Insurance Contributions Bill, which will introduce an “Employment Allowance”, add Read More......(read more)

The Equality Act – victimisation after employment has ended

2013-05-01T16:23:34Z

There is a problem with the drafting of the Equality Act 2010. Victimisation, which in this sense means disadvantaging someone because they have brought a discrimination claim, or done “any … thing for the purposes of or in connection with Read More......(read more)

Unpaid wages claims – employment tribunal or small claims court?

2013-04-30T09:24:58Z

Claims for unpaid wages can be brought in either the courts or the employment tribunal. In the past, most such claims have been brought in the employment tribunal. Only very large claims have been brought in the courts. One of (…) Read the rest Read More......(read more)

Employee shareholders – from speech to legislation

2013-04-25T06:16:02Z

The government’s plans for employee shareholders were first announced by George Osborne in his speech to the 2012 Conservative party conference: “This idea is particularly suited to new businesses starting up; and small and medium sized firms Read More......(read more)

One Man, Two Guvnors – outsourcing and employment law

2013-04-24T16:08:07Z

When work is outsourced, an employee will often be accountable both to their employer and to the client they are working for. For instance, a chef might work at a canteen which his or her employer runs for one of (…) Read the rest of this entry Read More......(read more)

Caste discrimination

2013-04-23T11:41:38Z

Section 9(5) of the Equality Act 2010 contains a power for the government to legislate to include caste as an aspect of race discrimination. There has been controversy over whether caste can be included as an aspect of race discrimination (…) Read Read More......(read more)

ACAS’s example redundancy selection criteria

2013-04-15T16:33:55Z

Where employers need to make redundancies, and have to decide who amongst a group of employees should be made redundant, it has become standard practice to carry out “scoring” of employees across a range of different selection criteria. Sometimes Read More......(read more)

UK Blawg Roundup #13

2013-03-29T08:51:57Z

Thanks to Michael Scutt for inviting me to contribute the UK Blawg Roundup for the first quarter of this year – my pick of UK legal blogging so far this year. January Being an employment lawyer, my January was dominated (…) Read the rest of Read More......(read more)

Problems with access to legislation

2013-03-26T17:56:55Z

Put yourself in the position of a litigant in person. You think you haven’t been allowed enough holiday. You’ve heard that the Working Time Regulations have something to say about holidays, and you send in a claim to the employment (… Read More......(read more)

Why Google Plus now matters for bloggers and law firms

2013-03-25T18:26:29Z

For years, Google has been the undisputed king of web searches, and made billions of dollars of advertising revenue from that position. Then newcomers like Facebook and Twitter came along. Search was now going to be “social”. Instead of searching Read More......(read more)

Hayes v Willoughby – harassment and the prevention or detection of crime

2013-03-20T10:42:32Z

Most employment lawyers will come across the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 at some point in their professional careers. The Act created for the first time a criminal offence of harassment and, alongside that, a civil cause of action in (… Read More......(read more)

Podcasting for lawyers part 2 – why lawyers should produce podcasts

2013-03-19T18:57:45Z

In the first part of this series I looked at what podcasts are, and set out some of the best legal podcasts. In this post, I’ll go on to explain why I think lawyers should produce podcasts. 1 They are good (…) Read the rest of this entry » Read More......(read more)

New employment tribunal rules to be introduced in summer 2013

2013-03-14T14:08:44Z

The government has today announced that the planned new employment tribunal rules will come into force in summer 2013. The ministerial statement to Parliament explains the reason for the delay from the expected implementation date of April: “It Read More......(read more)

The social media law project

2013-03-13T10:01:24Z

Sean Jones QC of 11KBW has today launched “The Social Media Law Project“. The project has two aims – first, the development of a balanced “open source” social media policy for use by employers, and second, to be a resource Read More......(read more)

UK blawg round up

2013-03-07T17:56:29Z

Work/Life/Law is hosting this quarter’s UK blawg round up. Since 2010, the UK blawg round up has given individual legal bloggers the opportunity to draw attention to the UK legal blog posts which they consider to be the best of (…) Read the Read More......(read more)