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	15 Jan 2009	Amendments to Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure published	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 make various amendments to the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2004, including changes that will be n...
	14 Mar 2008	Amendments to Sex Discrimination Act 1975 published	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Amendment) Regulations 2008 SI 2008/656 have been laid before Parliament and will come into force on 6 April 2008. The Regulations make various amendments to the Sex D...
	22 Mar 2011	Amendments to the Takeover Code proposed	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Following last year's negative public and union reaction to Kraft's takeover of Cadbury, the Takeover Panel has published a consultation on proposed amendments to its Takeover Code. The changes are...
	21 Jun 2012	Annual leave coinciding with sickness can be taken later regardless of when sickness arose	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Asociación Nacional de Grandes Empresas de Distribución (ANGED) v Federación de Asociaciones Sindicales and ors the ECJ has held that the EU Working Time Directive (No.2003/88) requires that a work...
	2 Oct 2012	Automatic pension enrolment and other legislative changes for October 2012	News from the IDS Emplyment Law Team	The most radical reforms to workplace pensions came into force on 1 October with the introduction of the automatic enrolment scheme. Under the scheme, employers are required to automatically enrol wor...
	3 Nov 2010	BA cabin crew staffing agreement not incorporated into contracts	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	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...
	19 May 2010	BA wins second injunction preventing cabin crew strike	News from the IDS Employment Law Team
	21 Aug 2009	Barrier to professional advancement not an 'adverse effect' under the DDA	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police v Cumming the EAT has held that a person's inability to meet the physical requirements for entry into a profession is not a relevant adverse effect on ...
	12 Feb 2010	BA's 'no visible jewellery' policy not discriminatory	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Eweida v British Airways Plc, Ms Eweida has lost before the Court of Appeal in her challenge to the EAT's decision that BA's uniform policy, which required E to remove or conceal her cross, did not...
	12 May 2009	Belief in climate change can be a 'philosophical belief'	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Nicholson v Grainger plc and ors, a tribunal found that N’s belief that carbon emissions must be cut to avoid catastrophic climate change could amount to a philosophical belief for the purposes of ...