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Employment News

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	28 Apr 2009	Working time opt-out to be retained	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	After five years of negotiations, attempts to reach agreement between Member States and the European Parliament on a revised Working Time Directive have failed, the main stumbling block being the opt-...
	23 Nov 2011	Government announces ‘radical’ employment law reforms	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	After months of speculation and leaks to the press the Government has announced its plans for the ‘most radical reform to the employment law system for decades’.
	26 Nov 2010	Dismissal partly based on manifestation of spiritualist beliefs not discriminatory	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	An employee who was dismissed partly because of the way he promoted his spiritual beliefs at work has failed in his appeal against a tribunal’s decision that he was not subjected to discrimination on ...
	23 Jan 2008	Tribunal finds compulsory retirement to be objectively justified	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	An employment tribunal, in Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes, has held that the compulsory retirement of a partner in a law firm was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, and therefore...
	14 Jun 2006	Employment tribunal upholds direct disability discrimination complaint		An employment tribunal, in the case of Tudor v Spen Corner Veterinary Centre Ltd and anor, has held that an employee suffered direct disability discrimination in breach of S.3A(5) of the Disability Di...
	14 Apr 2008	Transferee must be identified for ‘service provision change’ to occur	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	An employment tribunal, in Thomas-James and ors v Cornwall County Council and ors, has decided that there was no ‘service provision change’ within the meaning of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protecti...
	27 Nov 2012	Independent review calls for reform of apprenticeships	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	An independent review, jointly commissioned by Vince Cable, Business Secretary, and Michael Gove, Education Secretary, has called on the Government to improve the quality of apprenticeships and make t...
	8 Dec 2010	Council of the European Union rejects plan for 20 weeks' maternity leave on full pay	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	At a meeting of the EU Employment Council, a large majority of ministers rejected the European Parliament’s proposal to legislate for 20 weeks of maternity leave at full pay.
	6 Dec 2010	Government lobbies against extending paid maternity leave	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	At a meeting of the EU Employment Council, Edward Davey, Minister for Employment Relations, will lobby against the European Parliament's proposed 20 weeks of maternity leave at full pay (see our news ...
	2 Nov 2011	Revised public sector pensions reforms announced	News form the IDS Employment Law Team	At Prime Minister’s Questions on 2 November, David Cameron outlined revised proposals for the reform of public sector pensions. The Government claims that the ‘fair’ proposals would see low and middle...