Legal News
April
2008
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25/04/2008
Workplace flexibility increases employees' commitment and reduces the number of days they take off, new research has found.The study, published in the Psychologist-Manager Journal, surveyed 3,000 ...
21/04/2008
Firms have difficulty dealing with pregnant job applicants, new research has revealed.Employment Law Advisory Services (ELAS) has found only five per cent employed someone knowing they were ...
17/04/2008
The Office for Fair Trading (OFT) has got tough with 112 construction firms and issued a Statement of Objections against them.The move follows its investigation into bid rigging and cover pricing, ...
10/04/2008
Clifford Chance (CC) has been awarded Employer of Choice for Law in The Times Graduate Recruitment Awards for 2008.The firm beat Allen & Overy and Linklaters and was nominated after the paper ...
10/04/2008
Good filing and documentation management is vital if firms want to avoid future legal costs, MTA Solicitors told byestart.co.uk.The firm stressed employers must maintain documentation for all ...
10/04/2008
Seven in ten UK bosses have banned the use of social networking sites at work, Onrec has reported.According to employment law firm Peninsula, 69 per cent have applied a total ban and 79 per cent ...
07/04/2008
A proposed equal rights bill for temporary workers would exclude IT and engineering contractors, it has been reported.The Temporary and Agency Workers Bill, otherwise known as the Equal Treatment Act ...
07/04/2008
The Lords' decision to support a part-time firefighter's claim to additional employment rights will have a significant effect on workplace law, his legal representative has claimed.Richard Arthur, ...
07/04/2008
Business needs to check its data back-ups and test its disaster recovery plans, new government-backed research has advised.The 2008 Information Security Breaches Survey carried out by a consortium, ...
04/04/2008
Workers at IBM will soon be able to discuss their jobs and careers in the company's own cyber-world.By adopting a private area of virtual world, Second Life, the firm will be the first to create a ...