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Employment Law
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Length:
30 minutes of audio
(+ optional 5 minute online quiz)
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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 key points in the recent ECJ decision on retirement ages and its likely impact in the UK;
  • 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 state of the law on agency workers;
  • Understand the effect of recent decisions on the meaning of disability under the DDA.
Level:
Intermediate Difficulty: 3 of 5
Sources and References:
  • Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios (C-411/05), ECJ;
  • Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation Directive (2000/78/EC);
  • Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006;
  • Heyday Case – R (on the application of Incorporated Trustees of the National Council on Aging) v The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2006] EWHC 5485;
  • Dacas v Brook Street Bureau [2004] EWCA Civ 217;
  • Cable & Wireless Plc v Muscat [2006] EWCA Civ 220;
  • James v Greenwich London Borough Council [2007] ICR 577, EAT;
  • Employment Rights Act 1996;
  • Polkey v A. E. Dayton Services Ltd [1988] ICR 142;
  • YMCA Training v Stewart [2007] IRLR 185, EAT;
  • BHS v Burchill (1978) IRLR 379, EAT;
  • McAdie v Royal Bank of Scotland [2007] EWCA Civ 806;
  • London Fire & Civil Defence Authority v Betty (1994) IRLR 384;
  • Patterson v Commission of Police of the Metropolis [2007] IRLR 763, EAT.

This CPD podcast provides an overview of issues in Employment Law, including a review of the first year of the rules on Age Discrimination, with a review of the effect of the Palacios de la Villa decision, a consideration of the recent case law on agency workers and an analysis of where next with unfair dismissal law. It also analyses the important unfair dismissal case in McAdie v RBS and the disability discrimination decision in Patterson v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis.

Podcast Added: 01/11/2007

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