Employment Update - December 2011

Welcome to our December update. As many of you will have seen in the news Vince Cable used his speech to the EEF to announce the Government's plans to radically reform employment relations through a package of measures aimed at reducing onerous and unnecessary demands on business, while safeguarding workers' rights. As part of this the Government has at long last published its formal response to the consultation on Resolving Workplace Disputes. Dr Cable also announced a number of other measures to be introduced and there is still much in the way of the detail to emerge. We summarise some of the key changes revealed so far and look at what is yet to come.

In this update my colleague, Nick Hurley, gives us his opinion on the FRC's approach to increasing the number of women in the boardroom, we focus on the latest cases on the ongoing saga of holiday pay and long term sick leave and finally we take a look at the impact of social media in the workplace and what