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Following an announcement in December 2021, care staff and home carers are amongst the new roles to have been added to the Shortage Occupation List. This enables overseas individuals to...
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In Follows v Nationwide Building Society an Employment Tribunal has upheld a claim of indirect associative discrimination on the grounds of disability. Background The Claimant was employed on a homeworker...
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The human tragedy of the recent pandemic is of course colossal, and in reality impossible to appreciate fully. Everybody will be able to relate to a story, whether directly or...
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In the case of Stojsavljevic and another v DPD Group UK Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a decision that individual owner-driver franchisees who provided DPD delivery services were neither...
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Amanda Cavanagh, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a five figure settlement for Mr S, a man who lost the majority of vision in his left eye...
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Sharon Allison, partner and head of medical injury at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a six figure sum for Ms R, a woman who was left with paraplegia after her spinal...
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In Allette v Scarsdale Grange Nursing Home Ltd, an employment tribunal has ruled that the dismissal of a care home employee for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 was not...
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The minimum salary payable to sponsor a migrant in the Intra-company Transfer (ICT) category is £41,500 a year or the going rate, if higher. Who is the ICT route open...
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When a Landlord grants a tenancy to more than one individual, the tenants will be joint tenants. In those circumstances, there will only one contract between the Landlord and the...
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Titan, a St Neots-based engineering company which started life as a motorsport racing team and now employs eighty people, has completed a management buyout (MBO), ably assisted by Geoff Hazlewood...
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An Article 2 inquest will be held in cases where an individual has died whilst being in the custody of the state. Often this will be an inmate in a...
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The use of hand-held mobile phones (or other interactive communication ‘devices’) whilst driving a motor vehicle will be prohibited in almost all circumstances from 25 March 2022. Currently, a mobile...
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