Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)
It’s a problem for employers, without a World Cup thrown in!
With drink increasingly becoming a common place feature of many people’s daily social lives (particularly in the 16 -29 age group), the impact is leaking into the workplace.
A business will suffer if any employee drinks during working hours in such a way that the work suffers e.g. a boozy client lunch. A business will also suffer if an employee phones in sick after a heavy night drinking the night before, or who comes to work with a hangover. Read more »
Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)
As featured in Crain’s Manchester Business.
Recent reports have confirmed that the Employment Tribunals Service in the North West is currently suffering such a backlog of cases that people are now being told that it will be at least 12 months before their case is heard.
There has indeed been a sharp rise in claims over recent years in various areas of employment law, but especially regarding class actions, with the most prominent escalation being in equal pay disputes, and the tribunal system is straining under the massive rise in equal pay claims. Read more »
Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)
Not necessarily, so act with caution! If you think you have an issue with a personality clash between employees, you should take a very careful and well thought out approach to avoid an employment law claim.
Firstly, let’s go back to basics – where an employee is eligible to claim unfair dismissal, they must have 12 months service, and you must have a ‘potentially’ fair reason for dismissal and also act reasonably, in all the circumstances, in dismissing for that reason. So what are the six potentially fair reasons to dismiss? Read more »
I recently read from two news sources that Twitter are closer to introducing advertising on their site, whether this is search or tweet-based.
Rob Illidge (Marketing Executive)
Search-based ads will use DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) technology to scan a users tweets and relay ‘relevant’ and targeted ads back.
I suppose you could argue what is the problem with that? If I was desperately seeking an Employment Solicitor, not that I would 
, and vented my frustrations via Twitter, I would be more than happy to have a targeted ad from a Manchester based Solicitor delivered.
After all I’m using their platform so they are entitled to pursue revenue in this way.
Then there is the privacy issue. There’s always a privacy issue.
Why should Twitter ‘bombard’ users with ads that may not be relevant? And what if these ads take me to somewhere I thought I was buying ‘genuine UGG boots’ from, and ultimately ruin my online experience as a result. Read more »
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Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)
Some excellent news to cheer everyone up today.
The Government has announced that, as part of the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, an extra bank holiday is to be created on 5 June 2012. The late May bank holiday is going to be moved to 4 June 2012, so as to create a Diamond Jubilee long weekend.
Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)
For the first time ever the annual review of compensation limits has resulted in a reduction to the maximum compensatory award limit, in line with the decrease in the retail prices index.
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You must have been asleep for the whole of 2009, if you escaped hearing about the Heyday case! Employers across Britain breathed a temporary sigh of relief when the High Court ruled that employees have no automatic right to work beyond the age of 65. Read more »
Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)
Jennifer Smith, Employment Solicitor at Ralli, looks at some of the highlights (or possibly lowlights!) of 2009.
1. So long, farewell… to the statutory DDPs and GPs. The 6 April 2009 saw the repeal of the statutory dispute resolution procedures to deal with discipline and grievance. Read more »
Jennifer Smith (Solicitor)
The 1st October 2009 saw the maximum limit of a week’s pay for statutory redundancy purposes increase from £350 to £380. This weekly limit will also apply when calculating other types of payment, including the basic award for unfair dismissal claims. Read more »
Jennifer Smith (Solicitor)
It was reported last week that Marlon King is to be jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of sexual assault and actual bodily harm over an incident in a London nightclub. The Professional Footballers Association deputy chief executive commented that Marlon King had brought the situation on himself: “I don’t think anybody can deny that,” he said “but I think it’s important to bear in mind footballers are not divorced from society.” Read more »
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