More People to be Covered by Disability Law
The House of Lords clarified the UK’s Disability Law and have awarded Elizabeth Boyle £125,000 compensation from her former employer.
The ruling means that more people with controlled, recurring conditions are covered by disability law.

Pay and Work Rights Helpline
More than 50,000 people have called a government helpline on workers’ rights since it launched in September and last week launched a video on YouTube giving advice for employees on basic work rights. View video here.
Source: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

In recent months there has been a lot of speculation both in the media and the courts on an employee’s right to ‘carry forward holiday leave entitlement not taken over into a new holiday year’.
Well at last some good news for business. A newsletter published by the law firm Wedlake Bell explains a recent judgement [...]

Driver told he ’stank of BO’ awarded £3,000 for unfair dismissal
A delivery driver who was told he “stank of BO” by his female boss has been awarded £3,000 by an employment tribunal. Alex Frowd, 26, said office manager Julie Cummings was “worse than any male boss” he’d ever had, adding he feared being around her [...]

The Business Department has delayed the introduction of the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) until October 2011 as part of efforts to cut the cost of business regulation by £6.5bn by 2015.

The limit by which statutory redundancy pay is calculated increases today. The maximum “week’s pay” for the purposes of the calculation is to rise to £380, up from £350.
There is a wonderful ‘mind-boggling’ table that you can use to work out an employees entitlement based on age and length of service.

On the 3rd of September we posted details of the new national minimum wage rates that take effect from the 1st October 09. A report called National Minimum Wage – Final Impact Assessment June 09  estimates the following:

1.4 million – aged over 21
140,000 – 18 to 21 year olds
36,000 – 16 to 17 year olds

A [...]