It is highly advisable that senior executives of companies facing redundancy agree a list of ‘restricted clients’ with their employers wherever possible, when negotiating the terms of their compromise agreements. This list should contain clients that the employees have had direct dealings with. It therefore makes it easier for such senior executives to know which clients are […]
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Compromise Agreement, Redundancy, Employment Law, Negotiating Terms, Restricted Clients
September 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Advertisement of Post after Redundancy, Breach of Confidential Information, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Confidentiality Provisions in a Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors
Tags: Compromise Agreement·employment law·Negotiating Terms·Redundancy·Restricted Clients
Compromise Agreements, Enployment law, Redundancy, Collective Compromise Agreements, Enhanced Redundancy Pay
August 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Collectively Agreed, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Employment Tribunals, Payment Terms, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Severance Pay, Termination Payment
As more and more employers are making hundreds if not thousands of employees redundant, we are seeing a number of compromise agreements that have been collectively agreed. In such cases, employers are refusing to change the terms of the compromise agreements for any one employee on the basis that the agreements were collectively agreed. Employees […]
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Employment Law – Automatic Unfair Dismissal – Reasonable belief of Serious and Imminent Danger – Health & Safety
July 19th, 2011 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Dismissal Before the Termination Date
In the case of Oudahar v Esporta Group Ltd [2011], the claimant was a chef. The respondent had some electrical work undertaken in the workplace and the claimant asserted that there were unsecured electrical cables. As a result and contrary to the respondent’s instructions, the claimant refused to mop the floor near this area, for […]
Employment Law – Enhanced Redundancy Entitlement can be subject to a Compromise Agreement
July 5th, 2011 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Termination Payment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
In the case of Garratt v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd [2011], the claimant claimed an enhanced redundancy payment pursuant to a collective agreement signed between his employer and the British Association of Journalists (a union of which he was a member). The entitlement to the enhanced redundancy payment of 2 weeks’ pay for each full […]
Employment Law – Compromise Agreement
February 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Termination Payment
Under employment law, any sums owed to an employer by an employee upon termination of an employee’s contract of employment, will normally be deducted from any severance payment being paid to the employee (unless agreed otherwise in advance). This should always be taken into account in a compromise agreement.
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Employment Law, Compromise Agreement, voluntary redundancy, Confidentality
February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Confidentiality Provisions in a Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Employment Tribunals, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Redundancy Pay, Resignation, Settlement Payment, Severance Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Statutory Redundancy Pay, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Termination Payment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
If you are an employee and looking for employment law advice, then you should note that confidentiality is a crucial part of your compromise agreement. If you are yet to receive your draft compromise agreement, it is important that you do not disclose any confidential information about your employer in any pre-compromise agreement discussions with any […]
Tags: Compromise Agreement·Confidentiality·employment law·voluntary redundancy
Compromise Agreement, Equality Act, Employment law
November 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Equality Act, Legal Fees, Necessity for Legal Advice on the Terms of Your Compromise Agreement, Payment of Legal Advisers, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Termination Payment
Section 147 of the Equality Act 2010 http://www.equalities.gov.uk/equality_act_2010.aspx (“the Act”) has already become the subject of legal discussion, due to apparent ambiguities. This section of the Act sets out the requirements for an enforceable ‘compromise contract’ which purports to settle claims arising under the Act. The ambiguity is in relation to the definition of an ‘independent […]