Employment Law Edinburgh News

Employee confidence and trust in senior leaders has dropped to record lows as the economic downturn continues to erode workers’ standard of living and undermine job security. These are the headline findings from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) spring 2011 Employee Outlook survey based on a representative sample of 2,000 people in employment in the UK.

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A study from the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) has revealed that one in six workers feel they have been discriminated against when applying for a job or promotion at some point in their career because of favouritism in the workplace.

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Recent research has revealed that ageist attitudes are endemic in the workplace. The Government may be encouraging older people to work longer, but Britain’s young adults want them out of the workplace.

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The Forum of Private Business is calling on the Government to protect small businesses against employees who exploit employment laws to make ‘vexatious claims' against them. 

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The Institute of Directors (IoD) has argued in its response to the consultation ‘Resolving Workplace Disputes’ that the Government’s proposed reforms to the employment tribunal system are flawed. The IoD does not believe that the proposals will achieve any significant reduction in the number of weak complaints or costs to business in terms of management time and lawyers’ fees.

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The CBI has claimed that the employment tribunal system is failing businesses and individuals. It is meant to offer claimants and companies informal, quick and cost-effective judgements but, according to the CBI, the system is instead slow, legalistic and antagonistic.

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The Government has put in place a moratorium for micro firms on all new domestic regulations for the next three years. But the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is concerned that micro firms will continue to be hit hard by new regulations that come from Europe – 72% of the total cost of UK regulation now originates from Brussels.

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Changes to paternity leave from 3rd April, and the scrapping of the Default Retirement Age on 6th April will be damaging, claim business owners in an ongoing British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey.

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The Acas Council has welcomed the Government's proposal for all potential employment tribunal claims to be offered early conciliation with Acas first. In its submission to the Government's consultation document 'Resolving Workplace Disputes', the Council said the plans would enable the expansion of Acas' successful Pre-Claim Conciliation (PCC) service.

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Working Families has carried out a survey of employers’ readiness for the employment law changes to Additional Paternity Leave (APL) and Pay, introduced for parents of babies due on or after 3rd April 2011.

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The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has given its response to the recent budget, in which it commets on the Government's proposed moratorium on employment regulation for small firms, expressing concerns that it might create a two-tier labour market.

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Four fifths of companies in the UK are now offering their staff flexible working, according to new research amongst 4000 UK companies commissioned by workplace provider Regus. However, the research highlights that trust remains a major hurdle for many companies: 38% of UK businesses only offer this privilege to senior staff.

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Business will be freed from the burden of red tape under a package of sweeping reforms to regulation, the UK Government has announced.

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A former office manager for a timber merchant has won her sexual discrimination case at an employment tribunal.

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Over two thirds of employers say they have no effective protection against employees making wholly unjustifiable claims to employment tribunals. This is a key finding from a survey of employers’ experiences of managing workplace conflict, published in the run up to the CIPD conference on conflict management.

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One hundred and seventeen former employees of a Borders knitwear firm have been awarded over £350,000 compensation after an Edinburgh employment tribunal ruled that they had been made redundant illegally.

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Lord Sugar has criticised current UK employment laws which prevent employers from being able to ask prospective female employees during a recruitment interview about their plans with regard to having children and childcare.

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A new disclosure scheme to improve the protection of Scotland's most vulnerable groups is now in operation.

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Lord Davies has published his report ‘Women on Boards’ which sets out a series of recommendations to increase the number of women on company boards.

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The Government has called for a major review of the sickness absence system in Great Britain in order to help combat the staggering £100 billion that working age ill health costs the economy every year.

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