- Advanced/Update *6 hours CPD
The update will deal with significant developments in the last 12 months and where necessary look to changes on the immediate horizon. As usual employment law is ever-changing and the course reflects developments both internal to the UK and in Europe. The issues dealt with on the course change as new law comes into force but among the matters covered are:
- Agency workers; Dacas applied; Muscat in the CA and other cases
- Rights to holiday during long-term illness – Ainsworth. Effects on pay on termination
- Rolled-up holiday pay – Caulfield in the ECJ
- Current cases on procedure and new rules – use of rule 34
- Rutherford in the HL
- Compromise agreements
- Cases on DPP’s and GP’s
- Redundancy – Timing and nature of consultation
- Equal Pay – Victimisation/compromise – Derbyshire in the Court of Appeal and other cases
- Age discrimination – New regs
- New TUPE regs considered against recent cases
- The extension of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 to cover undertakings with 50 or more employees from 6 April 2008