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A firm has been awarded more than £50,000 compensation from one of its employees who set up a rival business with his two sons. The court heard that the three had all worked together at the same glass recycling business. The father didn’t have written terms of employment until February 2013, when he signed a
A woman has failed with a claim of constructive unfair dismissal after she resigned following a disagreement about the lawfulness of a redundancy selection process. The woman worked as a human resources manager for a graphics company. She was ordered to complete a redundancy selection process by her superiors. She believed that the members of
A manager has lost a bullying and harassment claim after the High Court ruled that he could not be classed as an employee and so the company he worked for did not owe him a duty of care. The case involved a manager who operated a number of petrol stations under a retail business agreement
An employer has won an appeal against a tribunal’s decision that an employee could be classified as disabled during two periods of sick leave. The case involved an employee who had two lengthy periods of absence from work; the first was for work-related stress and the second for a combination of migraines, headaches and stress.
The taxman could take some of the money you want to go to loved ones after you die if you fail to make a will and keep it up to date. Some may also go to an estranged husband or wife. That’s the warning from the Law Society, which has just conducted a survey revealing
Changes to stamp duty announced in the Autumn Statement by Chancellor George Osborne have helped stimulate the housing market, according to solicitors and estate agents. Mr Osborne said 98% of people in England and Wales will now pay less duty when buying a property. Only those buying homes worth more than £937,000 will be worse
The government has announced that a £2m fund is to be spent on initiatives aimed at reducing the gender pay gap. The funding will go towards training, events and monitoring programmes for women to help them move from low paid, low skilled work to jobs that are high paid and high skilled. The measures will
A leading accountancy firm has estimated that companies and organisations in the UK could be losing up to £200m as a result of ‘shadow insolvencies’. A ‘shadow insolvency’ is a term for when a company becomes insolvent but doesn’t disclose any assets when it enters liquidation. This means there is no money to pay to
More than one million people are running the risk of leaving their partners with nothing when they die, because they haven’t made a will stating what should happen to their estate. As the law stands, if somebody dies intestate – without a will – then their assets will be inherited by their spouse or civil
House prices rose by 12.1% in the year to the end of September, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Prices increased by 0.5% on a monthly basis between August and September this year. The statistics only include homes that were bought with a mortgage. The increases mean that prices have been rising faster