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March 10, 2011

Fines for serious data protection breaches

The Information Commissoner’s Office has imposed two fines on Councils for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998. Both breaches arose from the theft of a laptop holding unencrypted sensitive personal information. Ealing Council was fined £80,000. Hounslow Council was fined £70,000. Ealing … Continue reading →

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March 6, 2011

Offensive chain emails

An employment tribunal has held that an employee was dismissed fairly for sending an offensive e-mail from his home computer to his colleague’s home computer; and that no privacy was attached to the e-mail since it was a chain e-mail asking … Continue reading →

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March 6, 2011

Shared Parental Leave – what could it mean for the City?

The advent of shared parental leave will bring about a major cultural change.  HR practitioners will no doubt be keen to learn from countries that have already successfully implemented shared parental leave schemes such as Canada, and Denmark; and this … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2010

Increase in limits on tribunal awards from 1 February 2011

The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2010 was laid before Parliament on 10 December 2010, setting out the increases to the limits on tribunal awards from 1 February 2011. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal will rise from … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2010

New statutory payment rates from 11 April 2011

  The proposed rates of statutory benefits from 11 April 2011 are as follows: Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay. The standard rates will increase to £128.73. The weekly earnings threshold for these payments will rise … Continue reading →

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December 19, 2010

National minimum wage rates from 1 October 2010

From 1 October 2010 the new national minimum wage hourly rates are: Standard (adult) rate (workers aged over 21): £5.93; Development rate (workers aged between 18 and 20): £4.92; and, Young workers rate (workers aged under 18 but above the … Continue reading →

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