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Legal Matters Archive
Unfairly selected redundancy
Pregnancy, childbirth or maternity leave…what should you do?
If you are selected for redundancy on the grounds of pregnancy, childbirth or because you have taken or seek to take maternity leave, your dismissal will be automatically unfair.
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Business Tenants
Do you know your rights?
If you are a tenant of premises that you use for the purposes of a business you are, under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, entitled to a new tenancy at the end of your current tenancy unless your landlord can establish one of a few specific grounds of opposition, or unless the tenancy agreement was specifically excluded from protection under the Act before it was entered into.
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Summer Holidays in the Electronic age
What are your Consumer rights
With the holiday season upon us, it is interesting to note a change in the trends of the holiday industry. Whereas previously the most common type of holiday was the high street package holiday, recent years have seen a massive increase in the electronic sale of holidays to consumers.
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Age Discrimination
New regulations on the horizon
The Government has issued the final version of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 which are set to come into force on 1 October 2006.
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Biggest overhaul of pensions for 50 years
A-Day Simplifications
A new tax regime for pensions began on 6 April 2006, (a date which has been named A-Day).The new simplified regime, which affects the pensions industry, employers and individuals, replaced complex rules relating to pension provision and is designed to allow most people to pay more into their pension schemes – and on more flexible terms. The rules apply to both personal and occupational schemes.
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Code of practice for racial equility
Employers obligation
In November 2005 the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) published its new statutory code of practice on racial equality in employment.
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Employers Consultation
Pensions changes could amount to a variation of contract
The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers) Regulations 2006 also came into force on 6 April this year.
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Point based immigration scheme
A new direction
In March 2006 the Government published more details on its intentions to move towards a points-based system to manage immigration. Businesses that employ, or intend to employ, non EU nationals need to be aware of the changes.
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