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ELA Briefing

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	1 Dec 2003	The Right to Work Flexibly – Placebo or Panacea?	Naomi Feinstein, partner, and Adam Turner, professional support lawyer, Lovells	Requests for advice on dealing with flexible working requests have been an increasing part of an employment lawyer’s postbag since the introduction last April of a statutory right to request flexible ...
	1 May 2008	Religious discrimination: reviewing the case law	Shah Qureshi, partner and head of employment, and Nighat Sahi, solicitor, Webster Dixon LLP	Religious discrimination has grabbed the attention of employers, employees and the legal world since the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 were introduced four years ago.
	1 Apr 2012	Editorial - April 2012	Alex Lock, editor	Reform of employment law continues to make headlines, both in the UK and across the world. In countries such as Spain and Italy, far-reaching reforms of the labour market are being pushed through to p...
	1 Nov 2009	Paid holiday or holiday pay?	Adam Tolley, Fountain Court Chambers	Recent European Court of Justice cases have highlighted the essential question of the interaction between annual leave - protected by the Working Time Directive as a fundamental right of community soc...
	1 Nov 2008	In Brief - More Stays	Clive Howard, Russell Jones & Walker	Recent decisions mean more cases will be stayed in tribunals. In Berta v Hummus Brothers Ltd UK EAT/0184/08, the issue was whether a claim for unlawful deductions from wages in respect of unpaid holid...
	1 May 2012	Industrial action: Serco approach prevails	Alice Carse, Devereux Chambers	Recent cases have demonstrated that whether industrial action can go ahead depends on the approach taken by the courts to interpreting and applying the balloting provisions in part V of the Trade Unio...
	1 May 2007	In Brief - Gibbons Speaks	Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP	Reading the Gibbons Review is a weird experience for an employment lawyer. You keep on saying to yourself “who didn’t know that?” There is a statement of the obvious on every other page. Take the reco...
	1 Jul 2010	Implementing the European Works Council Directive	Chris Walter, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP and Robert Davies, Dundas & Wilson	Readers will know that the European Works Council Directive ( 94/45/EC ) requires certain community-scale undertakings or groups of undertakings to establish a works council, or an informatio...
	1 Nov 2004	In Brief - More egg-timer Justice	Stephen Levinson, partner,Manches LLP	Read Sinclair Roche & Temperley v Heard [2004] IRLR 764 to learn how not to organise a hearing. The tribunal had required counsel to produce closing submissions in writing over the Easter hol...
	1 Jun 2009	In Brief - More Law	Peter Schofield, EEF	Rather depressingly, the new Equality Bill has 205 clauses and 28 schedules. It is, of course, largely a harmonisation measure, bringing together the law on discrimination related to the nine (count t...