Blog Posts: June 2010

Doubts have been raised over the implementation date of The Equality Act 2010 after the Government Equalities Office (GEO) removed the October 2010 date for implementation from its website. The Equality Act received Royal Assent on 8 April and the bulk of the legislation was due to be implemented in October. But the GEO's website no longer displays that date, and a fact sheet on the Act just states: "The provisions in the Equality Act will come into force at different times to allow time fo....

Something must be seriously wrong when a senior judge is advising people to keep as far away from the law as possible. The comments were made by Lord Justice Mummery in a Court of Appeal decision. He was considering whether to allow an appeal by a restaurant owner who had been ordered to pay £14,777 in compensation to a former employee for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. The restaurant owner, David Piper, had attempted to lodge his notice of appeal with the Employment Appea....

A recent CBI Survey has shown that the rate of employee absence has fallen recently to the lowest levels since 1987. Employees still however take on average 6.4 days off through illness each year, accounting for 180 million sick days in total. The costs to companies and organisations are estimated at a staggering £16.8bn. It does make you wonder with the World Cup looming whether absences might start to increase if England progress in the competition and people start skipping work to watch....