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Employment Law
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Length:
30 minutes of audio
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Course Aims:

This podcast is suitable for practitioners of all levels and will provide an update on recent developments in the employment law field. Listeners will get a clear understanding of a number of recent cases and their impact.

Outcomes:
After completing the course you will:
  • Understand the effect of the repeals of the statutory dispute resolution procedures as a result of the Employment Bill;
  • Understand the key points in the recent ECJ decisions on international industrial action;
  • Understand the key likely reforms to discipline and dismissal procedures and the effect of recent decisions on compensation for failure to comply with a procedure;
  • Understand the recent decisions on TUPE;
  • Understand the effect of recent decisions on dismissing migrant workers without the right to work in the UK.
Level:
Intermediate Difficulty: 3 of 5
Sources and References:
  • Polkey v AE Dayton Services Ltd. House of Lords, [1988] ICR 142;
  • Regents Security Services Ltd v Power. Court of Appeal, [2007] EWCA CIV1188;
  • New ISG Ltd v Vernon. Hight Court, [2007] EWHC B14;
  • Holis Metal Industries Limited v (1) GMB (2) Newell Limited. EAT, 12.12.07 EAT/0171/07;
  • Katsikas v Konstantinidis. ECJ, [1993] IRLR 179;
  • James v Greenwich Council. Court of Appeal, [2008] EWCA Civ 35;
  • International Transport Workers' Federation, Finnish Seamen's Union v Viking Line ABP, OÜ Viking Line Eesti. ECJ, 11.12.07 (Case C-438/05);
  • Laval un Partneri Ltd v Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet, Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundets avd. 1, Byggettan, Svenska Elektrikerförbundet. ECJ, 18.12.07 C-341/05;
  • Klusova v London Borough of Hounslow. [2007] EWCA Civ 1127;
  • McCoy v James McGregor and Sons Ltd. Northern Ireland Industrial Tribunal, Case ref 237/07;
  • Johns v Solent, EAT 30.10.08 EAT/0449/07/MAA.

This CPD podcast provides an overview of some of the current issues in Employment Law, including a review of the Employment Bill, recent TUPE cases on variation of terms and objections to transfer, international industrial action and fundamental EU rights. A consideration of where next on agency workers. It also considers recent cases on migrant workers and the right to work in the UK.

Podcast Added: 29/02/2008

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