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Posted 06/12/2012 Competition minister Jo Swinson has announced that the new Groceries Code Adjudicator will be given greater powers to fine large supermarkets who deal with suppliers unfairly. In a...
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Posted 18/02/2011 Residential conveyancing demand from first-time buyers could rise considerably if house prices fall naturally, one industry expert has implied. Housing minister Grant Schapps recently hosted a discussion aimed...
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Posted 27/09/2012 The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that a worker who becomes unfit for work during a period of statutory annual leave must, under Article 7(1) of...
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Posted 16/10/2012 One recent Court of Appeal case acts as a good reminder to employers not to suspend employees just as a matter of course, but to take a step...
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Posted 02/03/2011 Following the abolition of the so-called ‘default retirement age’ (DRA), any employer who still gives an employee aged 65 or over six-months’ notice of their intention to terminate...
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Posted 16/09/2012 On Friday 14 September, the Government published its consultations on rewriting the employment law map as we know it. Whatever your political view of the proposals, there is...
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Posted 14/03/2011 People who think they will be able to build on and improve a company’s existing strategy may wish to think about buying a business rather than starting one...
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Posted 24/10/2012 In February 2011 Lord Davies observed that at the current rate of change it would take over 70 years to achieve gender balanced boardrooms in the UK. A...
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Posted 19/04/2012 Unite has confirmed fuel tanker drivers will abide by employment law if they launch strike action as a result of a new breakdown in talks with employers.No agreement...
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Posted 19/09/2012 A leading private contractor to the Government has admitted presenting false data to the NHS more than 250 times on the performance of its out-of-hours GP service in...
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Posted 28/04/2012 The UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) has reported that there is still no evidence that mobile phone use harms human health. Scientists have looked at numerous studies of...
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Posted 29/03/2011 People intending to start a business should have a growth strategy in place that will allow it to eventually expand without them. This is according to Pavlo Phitidis...
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