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Atypical workers

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	11 Apr 2013	Agency worker not protected by Framework Agreement on Fixed-term Work	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Della Roca v Poste Italiane SpA the ECJ has held that the EU Framework Agreement and Framework Directive on Fixed-term Work (No.99/70) do not apply to the relationship between a temporary worker an...
	1 Feb 2013	Modern apprenticeships: a ‘win-win’ arrangement	Jennifer Eady QC and Nadia Motraghi, Old Square Chambers	ELA Briefing	Readers of the Evening Standard cannot have failed to notice its ‘Ladder for London’ campaign, encouraging employers in the capital to provide apprenticeships for unemployed young Londoners. B...
	27 Sep 2012	Equity partner in limited liability partnership was not a ‘worker’	News from the IDS Employment Team	Employment News	In Clyde and Co LLP and anor v Bates Van Winkelhof the Court of Appeal has held that a member of a limited liability partnership (LLP) was not an ‘employee’ or ‘worker’ for the purposes of the Employm...
	1 Dec 2011	Golden whistle	Stephen Levinson, RadcliffesLeBrasseur	ELA Briefing	In NHS Manchester v Fecitt & ors [2011] EWCA Civ 1190, the Court of Appeal pronounced on the burden of proof in whistleblowing cases. S.47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 says that the detriment mu...
	27 Sep 2011	Agency Workers	Rob Eldridge, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Julian Taylor, Simmons & Simmons	Lecture Notes
	1 May 2011	Interns and volunteers: to pay or not to pay?	Deborah Nathan, Russell-Cooke LLP	ELA Briefing	Internships typically last longer than traditional work experience and often involve work that might otherwise be done by employees. There is widespread use of interns by MPs and they are also comm...
	1 Apr 2011	X v Mid Sussex CAB & Chalis: volunteer workers	Claire McCann, Cloisters	ELA Briefing	Is a volunteer worker afforded protection from acts of disability discrimination, whether under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - and therefore, by extension, the Equality Act 2010 - or by reco...
	1 Aug 2010	The CBI's employment agenda: common sense or exploitation?	Andreas White, Kingsley Napley LLP	ELA Briefing	In June, the CBI published `Making Britain the place to work: an employment agenda for the new government'. The report sets out the business body's vision for the reform of UK employment law, highligh...
	30 Jul 2010	Supreme Court reference to ECJ on the meaning of 'worker'	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In O'Brien v Ministry of Justice (formerly the Department for Constitutional Affairs), the Supreme Court has asked the European Court of Justice to consider whether the EU Part-time Work Directive all...
	12 May 2010	The Agency Workers Regulations 2010: Equality for Agency Workers	Peter Holt, Field Fisher Waterhouse	Lecture Notes