Clifford Chance
UK: Employment Update - July 2011
11 July 2011
Welcome to the July 2011 edition of Employment News in Brief.
In this edition we review a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the financial consequences of mislabelling a payment as 'ex gratia' to an employee's right to whether there is always a need to conduct a ballot to elect employee representatives for the purposes of redundancy consultation exercises.
Along the way we look at a case that highlights how wide ranging an employment tribunal's powers of recommendation are in discrimination proceedings and the potential for recommendations to generate adverse publicity amongst shareholders.
This briefing also examines a recent opinion of the Advocate General on how far into the future a sick leaver may carry accrued holiday and the implications of this for the Government's plans to revise the Working Time Regulations to allow up to 4 weeks of holiday to be carried forward by workers unable to take it due to ill health absence.
The much anticipated Supreme Court decision on whether an employee is entitled to legal representation during disciplinary proceedings is also featured.
Finally we take a look at recent developments on the push for board gender diversity.
