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Latest articles from People Management - Employment law
- Doctors' workload blamed for high dropout rates
- Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:22:00 GMT - Nearly a quarter of junior doctors drop out of their NHS training in England after two years, according to data from the Medical Programme Board (MPB), which oversees training.
- NICs holiday starts for new employers
- Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:09:00 GMT - Business start-ups outside the south-east will now benefit from a national insurance holiday worth up to GBP50,000 when they recruit their first members of staff.
- Belgian EU presidency does little
- Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:38:45 GMT - Peter Reid: New employment initiatives are few and far between
- Simpson v Endsleigh Insurance Services and others
- Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:56:00 GMT - Employees on ordinary or additional maternity leave, who are affected by a redundancy exercise, are automatically entitled under regulation 10 of the Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations 1999 to be offered any alternative vacancy available.
- Bundesbank to sack board member over discriminatory remarks
- Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:04:00 GMT - Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, has called for a member of its board to be sacked after he said that Jews shared 'a certain gene' and Muslims would not integrate into German society.
- Migrant domestic workers unsure of employment rights
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:21:00 GMT - Migrant workers employed as domestic staff are often unaware of their legal rights, while those employed by diplomats receive little protection from the law, a charity has said.
- AstraZeneca UK v HMRC
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:10:00 GMT - AstraZeneca offered its employees retail vouchers with a nominal value of GBP10. Employees had a discounted amount deducted from their salary. The ECJ decided the vouchers were VAT-able.
- Will the new immigration cap expose employers to race claims?
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:00 GMT - Employers face difficulty when reconciling their obligations under immigration law with their duty not to discriminate on race grounds
- Deciding which overseas workers have dismissal protection in the UK
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:34:00 GMT - Sending employees to work abroad raises many legal issues - not least the question of whether these individuals retain the right to claim unfair dismissal in the UK. This is rarely straightforward, since the employee or the employment relationship may come under different jurisdictions at different times.
- US healthcare: An American precedent
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:16:00 GMT - Barack Obama's healthcare reform bill will have more impact on HR in the US than any other piece of law in the past 50 years, according to some. Tim Smedley reports