Blog Posts: July 2011

According to the TUC there is a significant increase in the number of over-50s and people over the retirement age in work over the past two decades. The report shows that in April 1992, 56.5pc of people aged between 50 and 64 were employed. This rose to 64.9pc by December 2010. The number of over-64s in work rose from 5.5pc to 9pc over the same period. TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said low wages and poor pension provision had meant older workers increasingly felt they could not affo....

The Bribery Act has been implemented on 1st July and there must be concerns over the readiness of organisations to comply.. According to a Ernst and Young survey, one in seven employees polled at large UK companies are prepared to offer cash payments to secure business, and little more than half are aware of an anti-bribery policy at their firm.  As a consequence I would say most firms are in potential trouble regarding compliance. The survey of more than 2,300 employees, ....

The Supreme Court has just ruled that it was not a breach of an employee's human rights to refuse him the right to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing. The case concerned a teaching assistant who was alleged to have acted inappropriately towards a pupil at the school at which he worked. This judgment is of significance to public sector employers, which should now be aware that an employee is not automatically entitled to legal representation at a disciplinary hearing that m....