Please join us at our Employment Law Update session, at which we
will guide you through some of the changes anticipated this
year.
The session will be split into three parts:
Flexible Working
The right to request flexible working will be extended to all
employees from 30 June 2014.
The draft ACAS statutory code of practice and associated
"good practice" guide leave many questions (the tricky
ones!) unanswered. We will use a scenario to help
stimulate discussion regarding how you would tackle issues like
these in practice.
Holiday Hotspots
The latest European case law on working time holidays and
holiday pay potentially exposes employers to claims for back-pay,
possibly going back many years. John Lewis recently paid out
£40 million to employees as a result of the miscalculation of
holiday pay. Many employers are not yet aware of the significance
of these developments. We will run through the principles that the
recent cases have established and give you