Employment Law Brief

The IDS Employment Law Brief service is an indispensable source of employment law information and analysis. The service includes a fortnightly journal, regular Handbooks and Guides, and a comprehensive online resource.

Written by an in-house team of specialist employment lawyers, the IDS Employment Law Brief journal will help you keep up to date on the ever-increasing volume of legislation and case law, and understand its practical implications. It reports on the most important decisions of tribunals and the courts, and also fully covers new UK and EU laws. Feature articles expand on specific areas of law and explain their effects in a clear, concise way.

You'll also get access to the IDS Employment Law Brief online service, which will help you to find the cases and legislation you need quickly, interpret them easily and apply them to your needs. It will also keep you informed of all major developments in the employment law field, helping you to avoid employment disputes and costly tribunal claims.

The IDS Employment Law Brief service also includes Handbooks and Guides which focus on specific areas of legislation. These are sent to subscribers as they are published 3-4 times a year. Subscribe to IDS Employment Law Brief

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Is the two-year qualifying period right?
October got off to a dramatic start with the Government confirming its plans to raise the qualifying service for unfair dismissal from one to two years. Although this news didn’t exactly come out of the blue – the idea is one of a number of proposals trailed in the ‘Resolving Workplace Disputes...

Holiday pay conundrums
Thousands of pilots will no doubt be cracking open the champagne following the decision of the European Court of Justice in Williams and ors v BA plc, reported in this edition of IDS Brief. The case concerned the rate of remuneration that pilots should receive when on annual leave. While most workers’ annual leave is determined in accordance with the Working Time Regulations 1998 SI 1998/1833, which adopts the statutory concept of a week’s pay set out in the Employment Rights Act 1996, a different approach applies in respect of pilots covered by the European Aviation Agreement.

Public sector pensions showdown – are unions fighting for their lives?
The perilous state of the Greek economy makes for alarming reading, but the news closer to home is almost as stark as everyone gets to grips with government cuts, rising unemployment and companies closing final salary pension schemes, all the while wrestling with the dawning, and perhaps not...

Is the Government winning the austerity war?
The Government has won round two of the legal challenge to the new Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS), which was brought by the Public and Commercial Services trade union (PCS). The dispute started in 2009 when the Government announced significant reductions in Civil Service redundancy and early retirement payments affecting around half a million civil servants.

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