A recent case in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has highlighted that employers must take care when using selection criteria in a redundancy exercise, and be particularly conscious not to unfairly favour an employee on maternity leave in comparison to other employees. The case (Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v Belin (2011)) involved a male employee, […]
The inclusion of a candidate’s photo on a CV is not a practice which is widely used in the UK unless specifically required by a hirer or recruiter. This is different from some other countries where it is normal practice. This begs the questions should we be including photos on CV’s? Are there benefits to […]
The holiday spirit has been in full swing in recent weeks and here at Lawspeed we have noticed an increase in enquiries about the subject. Therefore, we thought it would be useful to include some general points about holidays in this month’s AgencyZone: How much is the holiday entitlement? From April 2009, the rate increased […]
Commenting on the prospect of final guidance being issued soon on the Agency Workers Regulations, Ravi Murphy, director of the recruitment law specialist Lawspeed, said “the way in which the new laws are explained in the guidance will be of key importance for agencies and hirers alike and may reduce friction within hirer organisations”. She […]
Hirers and senior recruitment professionals unanimously rejected the government’s proposal to impose a financial penalty on employers for breach of employment laws, at a think-tank meeting held by the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) to provide input into the government’s consultation on employment tribunal reform. ARC brought together its members and senior HR practitioners to put […]
The announcement in the press that a recruitment agency and its directors are being pursued for £10 Million by HMRC under the Managed Service Companies (“MSC”) legislation acts as a stark warning that by working with companies falling within the scope of this legislation, agencies are exposing themselves to significant financial and reputational risk. The […]
Recruitment consultants and HR managers seized the opportunity to influence government guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) 2010 in an interactive meeting hosted by the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) and key representatives from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on 12 April. The draft guidance was issued on 4 April, with […]
On 24 February 2011, Lord Davies reported on his independent review on the subject of women in the boardroom. Current trends show that in the top FTSE 100 companies women hold only 12.5% of the directorships. Lord Davies is recommending in his report for government that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should be […]
Speculation about what George Osborne had in store for post-recession UK ended with the announcement of the budget on Wednesday 23 March 2011. For recruiters, the highlights of the budget are likely to be as follows: Corporation tax is to be reduced in April 2011 by 2% and will continue to fall by 1% for […]
As a general rule positive discrimination (whereby an individual is favoured because they have a certain characteristic e.g. are of a particular race) is still in most cases discrimination because by nature this involves treating persons who do not have that characteristic less favourably. There are some areas of discrimination law where very limited positive […]
