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Contracts of employment

Locked	Date	Title	Author	Type	Abstract
	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...
	27 Jan 2012	ECJ considers use of successive fixed-term contracts	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen the ECJ has held that employing a worker on successive fixed-term contracts to continually cover different absent workers is not, in itself, a breach of the EU Fram...
	1 Apr 2008	Working from prison: M & P Steelcraft Ltd v Ellis	Naomi Cunningham, Farrar's Building	ELA Briefing	In M&P Steelcraft v Ellis and HM Prison Service, the EAT (Elias P presiding) considered whether a prisoner working outside the prison on day release was "employed" and could start accruing continuous ...
	3 Nov 2010	BA cabin crew staffing agreement not incorporated into contracts	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Malone and ors v British Airways plc the Court of Appeal has held that collectively agreed provisions stipulating minimum staffing levels on BA flights were not incorporated into individual contrac...
	23 Feb 2009	Intention to deceive not necessary element of a sham contract	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Protectacoat Firthglow Ltd v Szilagyi the Court of Appeal has held that, in order for a court or tribunal to find that an agreement is a sham, there is no need for it to find that the parties inten...
	29 Jun 2012	No breach of contract where employee met clients with a view to starting competing business	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Ranson v Customer Systems plc the Court of Appeal has held that an employee who met his employer’s clients with a view to securing work for his own company after his resignation was not in breach o...
	6 Apr 2009	Controlling shareholder can be an employee	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v Neufeld and anor the Court of Appeal has confirmed that a shareholder and director of a company can also be an employee. The Cour...
	18 Dec 2012	Repudiatory breach must be accepted for contract to end	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Société Générale London Branch v Geys the majority of the Supreme Court has held that the ‘elective’ theory of termination applies to employment contracts, so that an innocent party must accept a r...
	1 Aug 2009	The Ins and Outs of Sabbaticals	Jennifer McGrandle, Mayer Brown International LLP	ELA Briefing	In the current economic climate, sabbaticals allow employers to reduce short-term costs without having to resort to the more extreme (and often costly) measure of making redundancies.
	1 Dec 2007	The Johnson Exclusion Area: GMB v Brown	Monica Kurnatowska and Stephen Ratcliffe, Baker & McKenzie LLP	ELA Briefing	In the September/October 2007 edition of ELA Briefing, Monica Kurnatowska and Stephen Ratcliffe considered the EAT's application of the Johnson exclusion area to a ``last straw'' constructive dismissa...