One of the recent enquiry we recently received was from an employee that was pregnant and had been with her employer for 6 months and was told she was at risk of redundancy. In order for any employee to pursue an employer for unfair dismissal on the grounds of redundancy, the employee must have at least 2 [...]
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Employment Lawyers – Maternity Rights – Compromise Agreements – Redundancy
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Consultation, Maternity Rights, Redundancy, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
Employment Lawyers – Advertisement of Post after Redundancy
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Advertisement of Post after Redundancy, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Redundancy, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
We have been asked by a number of employees this week how long does an employer have to wait to advertise a post, if that post was made redundant.
The answer is six mnonths, but this would depend on whether the employee has signed a compromise agreement or not. If the employee has, the employee would be bound [...]
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Employment Lawyers – Restricitve Covenants Compromise Agreements
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Non Solicitation, Restrictive Covenants, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
Continuing with Restrictive Covenants
An employer may restrict an employee with regards to clients:-
The employee shall not at any time during the period of twelve months from the employee’s termination date (provided that nothing in this clause shall prevent the employee seeking or doing of business which is not competing business):
either directly or indirectly, solicit, canvass or approach or [...]
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Compromise Agreements – Non Solicitation Clauses – Restrictive Covenants
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Breach of Confidential Information, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Confidentiality Provisions in a Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Keeping the Terms of your Compromise Agreement Confidential, Non Solicitation, Restrictive Covenants, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
Where employees are senior executives, employers are reinforcing the non solicitation clauses in the compromise agreement even though such clauses are already set out in the employee’s contract of employment.
A restrictive covenant in relation to other employees might state:-
The employee shall not at any time during the period of twelve months from the date of [...]
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Employment Lawyers – Compromise Agreements Solicitors
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Benefits - What happens to your Benefits once you sign a Compromise Agreement?, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Garden Leave, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
If you are on gardening leave and have been given a termination date for the termination of your employment, you may be required to notify your current employer if you have been offered a new job before the end of the termination date.
Usually once the employee notifies the employer, the employee’s employment would come [...]
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Employment Lawyers London – Expenses Compromise Agreements
November 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Completion Date of your Compromise Agreement, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Expenses, Redundancy, Return of Company Property after Signing a Compromise Agreement, Signing Compromise Agreements, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
It is worth mentioning again that if you are an employee and you have been asked to sign a compromise agreement, you should submit your final expenses claim (form) to your employer within a specificed time (usually this time period is set out in your contract of employment). This is usually within five days of completion [...]
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Advice on Employment Law – Return of Property to Employers
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Dismissal Before the Termination Date, Return of Company Property after Signing a Compromise Agreement, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Warranties, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
If you are an employee, your employer may ask you to give a warranty in your compromise agreement that before the Termination Date you will delete irretrievably any information relating to the business or business contacts of the Employer that you have stored on any magnetic or optical disk or memory of any personal electronic devices, [...]
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Compromise Agreement Advice – Garden Leave
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Garden Leave, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
If you are an employy, you should be aware of the date when you are meant to commence garden leave and check the date in their compromise agreement to ensure that the compromise agreement is signed before you take garden leave or some other arrangements are in place.
Pension Contributions – After Signing Compromise Agreement
November 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Pension Rights, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
As we have discussed in this blog previously, an employee’s entitlements to any benefits such as pension rights (which will not be provided for in a compromise agreement) will cease on the employee’s Termination Date (see earlier blog).
Some companies are paying employees up to three months’ standard company employer pension contributions into the employee’s pension fund. As pension rights are not [...]
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If you are Feeling Unwell – should you Sign a Compromise Agreement?
October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Compromise Agreements, Feeling Unwell - Signing a Compromise Agreement, Offer from your employer, Signing Compromise Agreements, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
If an employee attends our office to receive advice on a compromise agreement and he/she appears to be and/or we are informed by the employee that he/she is feeling unwell, we will have to discuss with the employee whether the employee is able to appreciate the full implications of signing such an agreement.
In most cases, we would ask the [...]
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