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Atypical workers

Locked	Date	Title	Author	Type	Abstract
		EU ministers reach agreement on working time and temporary workers
	1 Jan 2003	DTI Roundtable on Employment Status	Rachael Wright, Osborne Clarke and Paul Daniels, Russell Jones & Walker	ELA Briefing	Rachel Wright and Paul Daniels recently attended, as ELA representatives, a Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) roundtable on employee status. ELA Briefing readers may recall that, earlie...
	1 Apr 2003	In Review - 04/03	Clare Primett, Le Brasseur Davis Law Group	ELA Briefing	This publication topic area describes itself as “a crucial part of human resources management”. Managing Dismissals features case scenarios, precedent letters and agreements and the latest le...
	1 May 2003	In Brief - Agency Workers 05/03	Tony Hyams-Parish Rawlison Butler	ELA Briefing	In Dacas v Brook Street Bureau (UK) Ltd (EAT/492/02), Mrs Dacas had been working as a temporary cleaner, via the Brook Street Bureau, for Wandsworth Council for six years. Her contract was te...
	1 Jun 2003	In Brief - Agency Workers 2003	Jill Kelly, Clarks, Reading	ELA Briefing	The comments of the Court of Appeal in Franks v Reuters Ltd & anor (see In practice, page 74) may be seen as alarming for any user of temporary workers. With the exception of the rogue decisi...
	1 Jun 2003	Agency Workers and Unfair Dismissal: an Update	John Antell, Godolphin Chambers	ELA Briefing	Whether there are any circumstances in which an agency worker can complain of unfair dismissal is a question that has been the subject of considerable debate. Two years ago the Court of Appeal in the ...
	1 Sep 2003	In Brief - Little and Large	Stephen Levinson, partner and head of employment law at Maclay Murray & Spens, London	ELA Briefing	On 29 August the DTI published its concise guidance on teleworkers. One week later the Disability Rights Commission launched its draft code of practice on Employment and Occupation Issues, which right...
	1 May 2004	Agency temp or Employee: Brook Street v Dacas	Richard O'Dair, 36 Bedford Row	ELA Briefing	Employment protection rights such as the right not to be unfairly dismissed conferred by S.94 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 are sometimes seen as a significant burden to employers and a reason not...
	1 Jun 2005	When does a Triangle have Four Sides?	Angus Edwards, 1 Temple Gardens	ELA Briefing	The factual circumstances that gave rise to this caserepresent a further twist in the batch of recent decisions concerning the employment status of Angus Edwards: workers who find the...
	1 Jul 2005	In Brief - Agency Workers	Roseanne Russell, Brodies LLP	ELA Briefing	The EAT has decided, in RNLI v Bushaway EAT/0719/04, that an agency worker engaged under an agreement describing her as a “temporary worker”, with an explicit statement that she was neithe...