Our last tour, which ran in spring 2013, covered the following:
Social media
- Understanding potential benefits, and potential damage to the business
- Having a sensible policy
- Identifying behaviour - misconduct or gross misconduct?
- Examining reputational issues (bringing the business into disrepute)
- Preventing and dealing with cyber bullying and harassment
- Disclosure of confidential information
- Human rights, including privacy and freedom of expression
- Investigation of misuse - what you can do
- Working through important case law to date
New and forthcoming law
- Changes to collective redundancy consultation law
- The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, including
- new claim regime
- equal pay audits
- protective conversations and a new statutory code
- Changes to the Acas Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Consultation on shared parental leave
- Employee-owner contracts
- TUPE consultation
Troublesome issues, including:
- Loss of trust and confidence
- what constitutes a loss of trust and confidence?
- identifying the correct reason for dismissal
- Effective date of dismissal
- confusion with PILON
- when is termination effective when sent in post
- Compromise/Settlement agreements
- additional clauses including restrictive covenants
- breaches of the agreement
Recent case law, including:
- Continuity of employment
- Discrimination
- Fixed term contracts
- Misconduct warnings
- TUPE
Details of our autumn 2013 law on tour will be available later in the year.
