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Employment Newsletter
Spring 2012
In this issue:
April showers - reforms taking place on 6th April
When is an off-the-record conversation truly off the record?
What employers need to know ahead of the pension reforms this October
Recent case round-up

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The coalition government has been focusing on employment law since April 2011, and the beginning of October 2011 saw a ‘spotlight’ on employment law. So what changes are coming into effect?

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In light of the Government’s recent proposal to allow ‘protected conversations’ in the workplace, we assess when an ‘off the record’ conversation is truly off the record, and provide our top five tips on conducting such ‘off the record’ conversations..

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Pensions are about to undergo some radical changes and employers will be obliged to ensure that they comply with their responsibilities under the government’s pension reforms.

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There have been some recent cases which considered the following questions: (1) is it discriminatory to suggest that an employee is “playing the race card”? And (2) can an employer choose a redundancy pool that is the same size as the number of redundancies it is making?

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