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Top Landlords encourage Councils to form joint ventures to increase housing 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The country’s leading developers and landlord agencies have suggested that Councils need to put more land into joint ventures with private housing associations. It is argued that given the economic c...
Sick workers will be nauseated by the recent EAT decision on entitlement to carry over untaken holid 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The recent ruling by the EAT in the case of Sood Enterprises Limited v Healy may leave sick workers feeling even more sick! The EAT has found that the right of workers to carry over annual leave beca...
Consultation on tax-free childcare launched 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The Government has launched a consultation on a new tax-free childcare scheme. It is proposed the scheme will start in autumn 2015 for children up to the age of 5 and will be phased in over time to in...
Government’s Caste Legislation Timetable Published 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
After much deliberation on the subject, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (ERRA) is to amend the Equality Act 2010 requiring the government to issue regulations outlawing caste discriminat...
When can Social Services override a parent’s authority? 12 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
A local authority is responsible for protecting all of the children in its area and are required - where a child is suspected to be suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm - to investigate wh...
Will the NHS be better after Berwick? 9 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Following the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire scandal, the government invited Mr Berwick to conduct a review of patient safety within the NHS and his report has now been published. In add...
Proposed Changes to Zero Hours Contracts 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Following the revelation that more than one million people in Britain are on zero hours contracts, which is four times higher than the number shown in official statistics, zero hours contracts have co...
Will the new Employment Tribunal Fees cause problems for Respondents? 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
From 29 July 2013, any claim brought in the Employment Tribunal will be subject to an issue fee and a hearing fee. The level of fees will depend upon whether the ground on which the claim is brought i...
Further Employment Law Measures Announced 5 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
As part of its ongoing review of Employment Law the Government has announced further measures that it proposes to take. Amongst these it has begun a ‘call for evidence’ on current whistleblowing legis...
The Heat is On! 46 Social Landlords share £7m in first tranche of renewable heating fund 31 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
The competition was open to Registered Social Landlords who were invited to bid for monies to support the costs of installing renewable heating equipment in their social housing stock. This Renewable ...
