This is BDB Associate, Kevin Poulter's, interview with Simon McCoy & Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast on 6th April 2012. Kevin discusses the changes to the Employment Tribunal system and the qualification period for an employee to claim unfair dismissal.

The Government is seeking views on two different options for charging fees in the employment tribunal.

In Readman v Devon Primary Care Trust, the EAT considered whether a Tribunal was wrong to conclude that an employee was not entitled to a redundancy payment because she had unreasonably refused an offer of re-engagement.

BDB's employment lawyer, Kevin Poulter's recent appearance on the BBC World Business Edition discussing the curious case of KK Ho, a redundant employee who reinvented himself as a bonds salesman on the trading floor.

A discussion relating to the topic of employee shareholders.

Richard Langley, head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution, commented recently in an article in Times Higher Education on a legal challenge by Andrew Croskery to the 2:2 degree awarded to him by Queen's University Belfast, claiming that if he had received adequate supervision he would have achieved a 2:1.

Richard Langley, head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution, commented recently in an article in Times Higher Education on a legal challenge by Andrew Croskery to the 2:2 degree awarded to him by Queen's University Belfast, claiming that if he had received adequate supervision he would have achieved a 2:1.

The EC Treaty prohibits the provision of Government subsidies (or State aid) in a which may distort competition or provide an unfair advantage over competitors.

The EAT has held in another incapability case that an employment tribunal was wrong to require that an employer should have taken length of service into account, and to require that it should have followed a particular procedure when obtaining further medical evidence.

Workers must not be subjected to a detriment as a result of refusing to opt out of the 48 hour limit on working hours set by the Working Time Regulations.

The new corporate offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion came into force on 30 September 2017 under Part 3 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017.

The EAT has held that a 'provision, criterion or practice' (PCP) can place a disabled employee at a substantial disadvantage for the purposes of the disability discrimination legislation even though the PCP does not apply to that employee.

The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) have set out details of how Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)...

In Argyll Coastal Services Ltd v Stirling and Others, the EAT has provided helpful guidance on the application of TUPE to service provision changes

The new guide is some 84 pages long (or a fair few train rides) and is largely along the same lines as the previous version. However, knowing the ins and outs of how to prevent illegal working is vital and the guide is still a crucial tool in every HR department's box.

It is now confirmed that the debate on Second Reading of the Water Bill will take place next Monday 25 November 2013, starting mid afternoon

A belated update on family visitor appeals.

Conservative backbencher Nigel Mills has tabled an interesting amendment to the Immigration Bill, which would prolong restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian workers until 2018.

Some important changes to costs in legal proceedings take effect from 1 April 2013. One such change affects the operation of Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs).

Foreign money seeking a refuge from wider economic difficulties has been key to the increase in prime central London property values in recent times so it seems, but Sushila Pindoria, senior associate, believes that this refuge also extends to the elite number of wealthy bankers looking for a safe investment for their hard earned city bonuses.