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14 May, 2012

Employment Law Update

Issue 126 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

9 May, 2012

Changes to labour market will increase poverty over next decade, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation

New report says that types of jobs available and improvements in skill levels, combined with changes to tax and benefit systems, will tend to widen inequalities rather than reduce them.

9 May, 2012

Queen’s Speech 2012

Measures announced include draft Care and Support Bill, and Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill bringing changes to parental leave and reform of employment tribunals.

8 May, 2012

3 May, 2012

1 May, 2012

Employment Law Update

Issue 125 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

30 April, 2012

26 April, 2012

Homer (Appellant) v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (Respondent)

New Supreme Court judgment that considers whether, in the course of his employment, the appellant had suffered indirect discrimination on the ground of age.

26 April, 2012

Ajar-Tec Ltd v Stack

[2012] EWCA Civ 543

25 April, 2012

23 April, 2012

18 April, 2012

Almost a million people will have been out of work for more than a year by the end of 2012

New IPPR analysis predicts that the number of people out of work for more than a year will rise by 107,000 to a total of 962,000, the highest since 1995.

18 April, 2012

Unemployment decreases by 35,000 to 2.65 million

New Office for National Statistics figures show the first quarterly fall in unemployment since May 2011.

18 April, 2012

Employment Law Update

Issue 124 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

16 April, 2012

13 April, 2012

Apprentices make better progress if they have completed meaningful work experience

Ofsted best practice report for young people shows that those who complete work experience, course tasters or vocational study are more likely to make good progress in their apprenticeship than those starting straight from school.

10 April, 2012

2.6 million jobseekers face competition for 234,000 full-time vacancies

Research by Guardian also shows that at least 24,000 vacancies do not offer enough hours to allow a couple with children to qualify for working tax credits.

10 April, 2012

UK unemployment to increase by 100,000 this year

IPPR analysis shows that unemployment will peak at 8.7 per cent and will not fall until at least September 2013.