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	15 Jan 2013	UK law failed to protect Eweida’s ECHR right to manifest her religion	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Eweida and ors v UK the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held, by five votes to two, that the United Kingdom failed to ensure E’s rights under Article 9 (freedom of religion) of the Europ...
	11 Jan 2013	Requiring a Christian to work on Sundays was objectively justified	News from the IDS Employment Team	In Mba v London Borough of Merton the EAT has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that a requirement for all full-time staff to work on Sundays in rotation did not indirectly discriminate against...
	21 Dec 2012	BIS sets out implementation dates for 2013 employment law reforms	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published the ‘Fifth Statement of New Regulations’, which sets out implementation dates for regulatory reforms in 2013. Among other things, it in...
	18 Dec 2012	Consultation period for collective redundancies to halve	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In its response to its consultation on the collective redundancy rules, the Government has announced that the current 90-day minimum consultation period where employers are proposing to make 100 or mo...
	18 Dec 2012	Repudiatory breach must be accepted for contract to end	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	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...
	12 Dec 2012	Volunteers not covered by discrimination law	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau the Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision that an unpaid volunteer was not covered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as she was not i...
	10 Dec 2012	New compensation limits in force on 1 February 2013	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012 SI 2012/3007 has been published. The Order will increase the limits on certain employment tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employme...
	5 Dec 2012	Government responds to employee ownership consultation	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Government has responded to its consultation on employee ownership which allows employees to give up some employment rights, such as unfair dismissal, in return for shares.
	30 Nov 2012	Advocate General considers justification of indirect sex discrimination	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Kenny and ors v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and ors the Advocate General has recommended that the ECJ holds that an employer’s industrial relations concerns cannot constitute the ...
	28 Nov 2012	Employer liable for former employee’s criminal legal fees	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Coulson v News Group Newspapers Ltd the Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court’s decision that a legal fees indemnity relating to a former employee’s employment did not extend to criminal ac...