HR Focus - November 2011
Welcome to this month’s edition of HR Focus
Next month, we are holding breakfast
seminars on "Employment Law update". The dates and times
are as follows:
- 01
December 2011
Weightmans office, Manchester
- 01 December
2011 Weightmans
office, Birmingham
- 06 December
2011 Weightmans
office, Liverpool
- 06 December
2011 Bolton
Arena
- 08 December 2011 Weightmans
office, Leicester
- 08 December
2011 Weightmans
office, Dartford
- 13 December
2011 Weightmans
office, London
To book your place, please
click here and fill in our online registration form,
specifying which venue in the other information box.
The clocks have gone back, the nights are
drawing in and it's tempting to let your mind wander
towards thoughts of mulled wine and Christmas holidays. As always,
though, there are important employment issues to consider and it’s
business as usual here at Weightmans!
Please contact askemployment@weightmans.com
or ring Laura Kearsley, Editor on 0121 200 3480 if you have any
queries, feedback on the newsletter or questions for our Q&A
section.
In this month’s edition:
Flexible working - the future
Victoria Duddles,
Associate in the Midlands Team, looks at the current state of
flexible working in the modern workplace and considers the
Government's plans for the future.
The risks of not providing a comfortable place to work
Scott Withers,
Associate in the Midlands team, looks at employee complaints and
suggests the best ways to stop an office grumble from turning
into a Tribunal claim.
Hughes v The Corps of Commissionaires Management Limited, Court
of Appeal
In our case update
section, Richard Leslie, Partner in the Liverpool office,
considers a recent ruling from the Court of Appeal on the effect of
the Working Time Regulations on employees’ rest periods.
Jackson v Liverpool City Council
Here, Kevin McKenna,
Associate in the Manchester office, provides an update on a recent
Court of Appeal case concerning just what can and can’t be put in a
reference.
Q & A on the use of compromise agreements
Finally, in our Q &
A section, Michael Berriman, a partner in the London office,
answers a question about the potential pitfalls when trying to
encourage an underperforming employee to agree to a compromise
agreement.
This update does not attempt to provide a full
analysis of those matters with which it deals and is provided for
general information purposes only and is not intended to constitute
legal advice and should not be treated as a substitute for legal
advice. Weightmans LLP accepts no responsibility for any loss that
may arise from reliance on the information in this update. The
copyright in this update is owned by Weightmans.