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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 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.

A tribunal has considered the collective redundancy consultation requirements in relation to over 27,000 employees of Woolworths, which went into administration in 2008.

In DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd v Doolan, the Scottish EAT held that an employment tribunal wrongly decided that the employer was not entitled to conclude, on the basis of expert evidence, that an employee was unfit to return to work.

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

Amendments are now being tabled to the Public Bodies Bill, the first set comprising 21 clause amendments, 2 new clauses and one new schedule,

It was announced in this week's Business Statement that there will be a debate in the Commons on the motions relating to scrutiny of Draft Orders under the Public Bodies Bill on Wednesday, 14 December.

Defra announced on 26 January (see here) that an independent Advisory Panel has been set up to provide advice to the Government as British Waterways makes the transition from public corporation to charitable body in England and Wales.

This is entry No.3 , first published on 15 November 2010, of a blog on Public Bodies Reform.

A belated update on family visitor appeals.