The government announced on 30 July that workers who were furloughed will be entitled to a statutory redundancy payment based on their pre-furlough salary and not the reduced furlough salary. This was implemented by the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020…. Continue Reading Employment law updates – Coronavirus
Paul Cooper at Blake-Turner has for many years advised clients experiencing cash flow difficulties. All too often an otherwise sound business hits a hurdle and all of a sudden it is “insolvent” because it realises it will not be able to pay certain debts as they fall due in the next few weeks and months. To describe the current…. Continue Reading Cash Flow And Coronavirus Pandemic – What directors must do
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on businesses across the UK has been critical. Businesses across a wide range of sectors have been forced to let go of staff or have incurred significant costs due to staff absence. Measures were announced in the Chancellor’s most recent Budget to mitigate the impact…. Continue Reading Coronavirus: Employment law update
Before the introduction of the Limited Liability Partnership (“LLP”) as a legal entity in English law 20 years ago, the only form of legal partnership that existed was a partnership under the Partnership Act 1890. A significant difference was that in an old style partnerships each partner had joint (but not several) liability. Continue Reading Partnership Disputes and LLP Disputes
For those participants in the Construction Industry who have been living in a cave for the last 20 years, it may come as a surprise that legislation which took effect in 1998 and 2011 introduced a new payment regime with concepts such as “withholding notices” and “payless notices”. The regime imposed stringent obligations…. Continue Reading FAREWELL TO THE “SMASH AND GRAB”
In the matter Spice and Anor –v- Tuli and Anor [2012] which was heard in the Court of Appeal, the Defendant appealed the decision that the Claimant was allowed to bring a claim by way of a consent order based on the same set of facts as a claim which they agreed to dismiss. The case discusses the use of the words…. Continue Reading How to correctly conclude a claim by way of a consent order
In the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) and in the matter of University of Sunderland (“University”) v Ms K Drossou, the University of Sunderland appealed against the finding that employer pension contributions are to be considered when calculating the claimant’s weekly pay. Ms Drossou worked for the University and…. Continue Reading Employer pension contributions
The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 introduced statutory adjudication to the construction industry in addition to contractual adjudication which already featured in a number of standard form contracts. Statutory adjudication provides for a 28 days fast-track dispute resolution procedure…. Continue Reading Statutory Adjudication To The Construction Industry
Blake Turner Solicitors recently acted in a discrimination case for an employer who faced a claim of sexual and racial discrimination for an employee who had worked there for less than six weeks. Despite obtaining a Deposit Order against the Claimant at an early stage in the proceedings (on the basis that the Claimant…. Continue Reading Sexual and racial discrimination case
In OCS Group UK Ltd (“OCS”) v Dadi and others, a former employee of the claimant was committed to prison for six weeks for breaching an injunction to preserve evidence pending trial of an action against Dadi for breach of confidence. Mr Dadi had worked for OCS. OSC lost a contract to one of its competitors – OmniServ…. Continue Reading Prison For Employee For Deleting Evidence
