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June
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23 Jun 2022
Employee Benefits
#ICYMI In Case You Missed It | Review of Q1&2 2022
Our quarterly bulletin ICYMI (in case you missed it) cuts through the noise to bring substantive thought leadership that will make a difference to employers and employees. This round-up of the top recently published editorial and thought leadership content from Generali UK, covers a variety of ...
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10 Jun 2022
Employment Law
Section 100(1)(d) and (e) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 provides employees with protection from dismissal if they exercise their right to leave the workplace or refuse to return to it, or take other steps to protect themselves, if they reasonably believe there is serious and imminent danger. ...
May
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13 May 2022
Employment Law
Employees have the right not to be unfairly dismissed. For a dismissal to be fair, an employer must show that they have a potentially fair reason to dismiss - such as conduct or redundancy - and that they acted reasonably in treating that reason as sufficient for dismissing the employee. ...
April
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13 Apr 2022
Employment Law
Employers dread the vexatious litigant. Even the most spurious of tribunal claims takes up valuable management time and incurs legal fees to defend. The judgment of the EAT in Attorney General v Taheri will be a salve to those employers who have previously had their fingers burned by a serial ...
March
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23 Mar 2022
Employee Benefits
Health & Social Care Levy - FAQ's
National insurance contributions for most employees and employers will increase by 1.25 percentage points across the UK from April 2022, with the projected £12bn annual income to be ringfenced to pay for health and social care.
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17 Mar 2022
Employment Law
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR) are derived from EU law. They aim to strike a balance between protecting agency workers and preserving the benefits of flexibility that using an agency provides to both businesses and workers. The AWR contain anti-discrimination provisions. Agency ...
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16 Mar 2022
Employee Benefits
Ukraine, Russia & impact on UK cover - FAQ’s
In response to the current Russia / Ukraine crisis, we have compiled a list of FAQs which we hope will clarify, as much as possible, our position in relation to UK Employee Benefits business insured with ourselves. As the situation is fluid, we will update this document as soon as more ...
February
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21 Feb 2022
Employment Law
EmpLaw Newsletter February 2022
Section 230 Employment Rights Act 1996 sets out the legal definitions of employee and worker. To be a worker – and gain the benefits of paid holiday and national minimum wage - there must be a contract between the business and the individual, the contract must be for personal work or service and ...
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02 Feb 2022
Employee Benefits
#ICYMI In Case You Missed It | Review of Q4 2021
Our quarterly bulletin ICYMI (in case you missed it) cuts through the noise to bring substantive thought leadership that will make a difference to employers and employees. This round-up of the top recently published editorial and thought leadership content from Generali UK, covers a variety of ...
January
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25 Jan 2022
Employment Law
EmpLaw Newsletter January 2022
The Court of Appeal has looked at recurring conditions recently in a case called Sullivan v Bury Street Capital.. Section 6(1) of the Equality Act 2010 sets out the statutory definition of disability. A person has a disability if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial ...