Employment - Employee Documents

At Work - Employee 12/02/2010

Feeling comfortable about your rights as an employee, understanding your contract when starting a new job or being confident when dealing with your employer's procedures can often be difficult. Our advice will help to guide you.

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Holiday Entitlement for the Long Term Sick 01/05/2008
No holiday for employers when it comes to long term sick leave
Previously the Courts had made what seemed to be a perfectly logical decision, that employees on long term sick leave were not entitled to accrue a right to paid annual leave. The rationale being that annual holiday is provided for a Health and Safety reason to give people a break from work. Those on long term sick leave did not need a break from work so had no entitlement to paid annual leave.

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Employment Law Changes 01/02/2008

The limit on the maximum compensatory award for the unfair dismissal and the maximum amount of a week’s pay for the purpose of calculating the basic award for unfair dismissal and a redundancy payment all increased as from 1st February 2008.

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Internet Mis-Use 01/11/2007
Social Networking
With social networking sites such as My Space and Face-book having around 15 million users in the United Kingdom, it is clear that these sites are now hugely popular. Sites like these enable users to share their lives and experiences with friends and strangers via public and private messages, music, photos and videos. An employee’s ability to keep up to date with friends and relatives while at work could be argued to be beneficial in helping manage the work life balance more effectively. Some surveys however show that a third of Internet users access the web from work and it is therefore hardly surprising that Internet use has become a real issue for the HR manager.

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Age Discrimination - One Year On 01/11/2007

The Age Discrimination Regulations came into force just over a year ago and yet age discrimination still appears to be prevalent. A recent survey revealed that over half of the people responding were aware of age discrimination taking place in their workforce. This is despite the fact that nearly 90% of those responding were aware that it is unlawful to discriminate against people on grounds of age in their employment. This high level of awareness has not yet translated into the number of discrimination claims that many anticipated.

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Leave Entitlements 01/05/2006
Briefing Note
The entitlement to time off work has become increasingly more difficult to deal with as differing criteria apply depending on whether it falls within the “family friendly” legislation or other employment legislation.

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Age Discrimination 01/05/2006
Major Changes in Employment Law
Later this year discrimination in the workplace on the basis of age will become unlawful as a result of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. Age discrimination legislation has been promised for a number of years and is now likely to become effective in October 2006. The new Age Discrimination Regulations will be enforced alongside the existing legislation which deal with discrimination on grounds of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief.

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Deals Book 2008 09/04/2009
Review of Deals and Commercial Matters
Welcome to the Herrington & Carmichael Deal Book 2008 –summarising the range of transactions and commercial work undertaken in the past year.


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Deal Book 2007 13/02/2008
Review of deals and commercial matters
This review highlights just some of the transactions and matters in 2007 where our solutions-led approach has benefited our clients. The type of instructions range from acquisition and disposal of businesses, management buy-outs, directors’ agreements, intellectual property rights, property development, land purchasing, employment disputes and TUPE requirements.


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