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 – Consultation Meetings
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Consultation, Signing Compromise Agreements
We have had recent enquiries where employees:-
have been given notice of being at risk of redundancy when they were due to go on holiday;
in some cases being asked to consider and come up with options whlist on holidays; and
the day of the consultation meeting being on the day they return to the office.
While some employees [...]
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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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Compromise Agreements – Return of Property by Employee
January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Return of Company Property after Signing a Compromise Agreement, Signing Compromise Agreements
In some cases an employer may allow an employee to retain company property. This has to be negotiated and agreed between the employee and employer.
The property must be listed in the compromise agreement.
Not all employers will agree to this.
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Employment Lawyers – Termination – Constructive Dismissal – Payment in Lieu of Notice (PILON) – PILON Payment or Termination Payment?
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, National Insurance Contributions, Payment Terms, Payment in Lieu of Notice, Post Termination Restrictions after Signing a Compromise Agreement, Redundancy, Settlement Payment, Termination Date, Termination Payment, Termination of Employment
Recent Case: Employment Law: Termination – Constructive Dismissal – Payment in Lieu of Notice (PILON) – PILON Payment or Termination Payment?
In this case of Clinton v HMRC [2010], an employer sought to terminate the employment of an employee and the employee sought to bring a claim for constructive dismissal against the employer. The employer paid [...]
Employment Lawyers – Outstanding Loans – Compromise Agreements
December 6th, 2009 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Outstanding Loans, Warranties
We have done a large section on warranties see http://www.adviceoncompromiseagreements.com/category/warranties.
We also wanted to mention that an employer may ask you, as an employee, to give a warranty regarding the payment of outstanding loans to the company, if you owe the company money.
The warranty may be worded as follows:-
“ You warrant that there are no sums or [...]
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