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Employment Tribunal Statistics – Behind the Figures

Thursday 5th August 2010

The tribunal statistics have now been released for the year 2009/10 and have revealed some interesting trends. There has been a sharp increase of 56% in the number of employment tribunal receipts to 236,100, which could be explained as a result the economic climate, for example redundancy complaints and being more conscious of rights and receiving the correct pay etc.

Author

Jennifer Grant

Category

Workplace disputes and Industrial Tribunals

Gravitate HR Website Design

Monday 2nd August 2010

Whitespacers in Edinburgh created our website design

Author

Jennifer Grant

Category

Team Updates

Coalition takes a stance on Immigration (and equality)

Wednesday 7th July 2010

While the coalition government has set interim limits on UK immigration, which sets a strong political stance going forward, does this cause further conflict with the equality bill now confirmed to come into force in October 2010?

Author

Jennifer Grant

Category

Employment Law Updates

Rewarding Employees' in SME's

Monday 10th May 2010

An insight into how SME's can 'play to their strengths' in order to reward & retain employees and prevent losing them to their larger company counterparts, which can afford to reward with private medical care, sharplans and large bonuses etc.

Author

Jennifer Grant

Category

Employment Law Updates

Breaching Data Protection - Increased Penalties

Friday 30th April 2010

The ICO (information Commissioner’s Office) has introduced an increase in the financial penalties to be imposed on organisations for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 - organisations who breach the code may now be ordered to pay up to £500,000!

Author

Jennifer Grant

Category

Employment Law Updates