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	18 Sep 2012	Acas welcomes request to write new Code of Practice on Settlement Agreements	News from the IDS Employment Team	Acas has welcomed the Government’s request for it to draft the new Code of Practice on ...
	14 Sep 2012	Government consults on further employment law reform
	12 Sep 2012	Tribunal gave appearance of bias when criticising claimant's conduct of case	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Oni v NHS Leicester City, the EAT has held that a tribunal should not have dealt with a costs application itself after having expressed criticism of the claimant's conduct during the proceedings.
	11 Sep 2012	New President of ECHR elected	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has elected Dean Spielmann of Luxembourg to serve as its President from 1 November 2012.  Mr Spielmann has been a judge at the ECHR since 24 June 2004 and Vic...
	30 Aug 2012	Council did not have to disclose details of employee’s severance package	News from IDS Employment Law Team	In Trago Mills (South Devon) Ltd v Information Commissioner and anor the Information Rights Tribunal has held that a council was entitled to refuse part of a freedom of information request concerning ...
	30 Aug 2012	Deputy Information Commissioner responds to Liberty/GMB blacklisting concerns	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Liberty and the GMB union have both recently written to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) asking it to reopen its investigations, closed in 2009, into a secret blacklist. The list, which con...
	9 Aug 2012	Liberty: Information Commissioner should re-examine construction worker blacklist	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Liberty, the human rights and civil liberties organisation, has written to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) requesting it to take further action in relation to the blacklisting of construct...
	1 Aug 2012	Unfairly dismissed employee’s estate could recover full death-in-service benefit	News form the IDS Employment Law Team	In Fox v British Airways Ltd, the EAT has held that the full value of a death-in-service benefit was payable in an unfair dismissal claim brought by the estate of a deceased former employee. An employ...
	27 Jul 2012	Low Pay Commission seeks views on national minimum wage accommodation offset	News form IDS Employment Law Team	The Low Pay Commission has issued a consultation on the ability of employers to offset part of their obligation to pay national minimum wage (NMW) if they provide their workers with accommodation. The...
	25 Jul 2012	Court of Appeal: independent contractor had worker status	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Hospital Medical Group Ltd v Westwood the Court of Appeal has upheld a tribunal’s decision that a doctor, although not employed under a contract of employment, was a ‘worker’ for the purposes of S....