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Guidance for employees retiring in 2013
Lesley Furber May 6, 2013

Guidance for employees retiring in 2013

The statutory default retirement age (DRA) of 65 years was removed in 2011, meaning that Employers cannot automatically end your employment when you reach that age anymore (in most circumstances). We thought...
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Disability Discrimination – what makes a worker disabled under the Equality Act 2010?
Lesley Furber May 1, 2013

Disability Discrimination – what makes a worker disabled under the Equality Act 2010?

When considering if a worker is disabled or not for the purposes of being covered by the Equality Act 2010, Employers must consider the impact of any physical or mental impairment...
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Confusing times for the National Minimum Wage?
Lesley Furber Apr 29, 2013

Confusing times for the National Minimum Wage?

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) which must be paid to all workers, has hit the news headlines again in April. For full details of the NMW read our article here. At the beginning...
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Can a limited company contractor be in scope of the Agency Workers Regulations?
Lesley Furber Apr 25, 2013

Can a limited company contractor be in scope of the Agency Workers Regulations?

Although many commentators believe that the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) were not intended to apply to ‘professionals’ with their own limited companies (also called Personal Service Company contractors) it is certainly possible, in...
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Agency Workers have discrimination rights under the Agency Workers Regulations
Lesley Furber Apr 24, 2013

Agency Workers have discrimination rights under the Agency Workers Regulations

In September 2012 an Employment Tribunal awarded an agency worker a large sum of money for disability discrimination and unfair dismissal against the Company she was employed to work at. In Pegg...
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Government to help tackle long-term sickness absence at work
Lesley Furber Apr 23, 2013

Government to help tackle long-term sickness absence at work

Earlier this year the Government unveiled details of a new scheme that would save Employers money and help tackle long-term sickness absence in the workplace.  Figures from 2011 estimated that...
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Going back to sole trader: How to close your limited company down
Jon Norris Apr 3, 2013

Going back to sole trader: How to close your limited company down

It’s an all-too-common story. Times were good, you had new clients coming out of your ears, more work than you could handle and your bank account was overflowing. You did...
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