If you are an employee, our employment lawyers cant stress enough how important it is to take independent legal advice as early as possible from emoployment solicitors and not to delay especially if your employer has given you a date by which to accept the offer and return your signed compromise agreement. A number of employees that our [...]
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Employment Lawyers – Compromise Agreements – Offer made by Employer
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Offer from your employer, Payment in Lieu of Notice, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination Payment
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Employment Lawyers – Compromise Agreement – Employment Lawyers London – Empolyment solicitor – unfair dismissal
July 20th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Payment Terms, Payment in Lieu of Notice, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Severance Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Statutory Redundancy Pay, Unfair Dismissal
As employment lawyers, we have been advising many employees this month on their offers. On a practical note, if you are an employee and have been offered a severance pay, before you decide to reject this offer and claim unfair dismissal, please take advice on the offer. In a number of cases, we found that [...]
Employment Lawyers, Voluntary Severance
July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Completion Date of your Compromise Agreement, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Dismissal Before the Termination Date, Early Retirement, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Garden Leave, Payment Terms, Payment in Lieu of Notice, Payment of Legal Advisers, Payment of Normal Salary, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination of Employment, Voluntary Severance
If an employee agrees to take voluntary severance, the employee may have a 3 – 6 month’s notice period. The employee’s employment would end at the end of the notice period (‘the Termination Date’) by mutual agreement. It is usual practice to place the employee on garden leave up to and including the Termination Date.
If you require further [...]
Compromise Agreements Employment Law – Employment Lawyers London
July 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Adviser's Certificate in Your Compromise Agreement, Choosing an Independent Legal Advisor to provide Advice on the Terms of your Compromise Agreement, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Severance Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination Payment, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
An employee is required to obtain independent legal advice. The adviser is required to give a warrant (in most cases) along the lines that:-
“ I also warrant and confirm that I am a solicitor of the Supreme Court, who holds a valid practising certificate and whose firm, [insert solicitor's firm's name and address], is covered by [...]
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Employment law Advice For Employers, Redundancies, Compromise Agreements – Offer of Employment
July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Job Offer during consultation period, Offer of Employment, Post Termination Restrictions after Signing a Compromise Agreement, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Severance Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Statutory Redundancy Pay, Termination Date, Termination Payment, Termination of Employment
Where senior executives have been paid handsomely, they are usually required to sign a compromise agreement in which they would have to, for a period of twelve (12) months following the Termination Date, undertake to notify the employer when an offer of alternative employment has been made and agree to provide the employer with such [...]
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Employment Law Advice – Employment Lawyer – Compromise Agreement – Employment Solicitors
June 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Notice Periods, Payment Terms, Payment in Lieu of Notice, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Severance Pay, Signing Compromise Agreements, Statutory Redundancy Pay
It is important to note that a contract of employment must include at the least the statutory minimum notice period. Where an employment contract contains a notice period that is less than the statutory notice period, this clause would be void. The current statutory minimum notice periods are as follows:
One week if the employee’s period [...]
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Employment Lawyers London – Job Offers during Period of Redundancy – Compromise Agreements
May 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Consultation, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Job Offer during consultation period, Offer from your employer, Settlement Payment, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Payment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
One of the issues that employees tend to face is when they can start looking for a new job if faced with redundancy. You can start straightaway, but if offered a job the employee must inform the employer as one of the provisions in a compromise agreement is that at the date of signing the compromise agreement [...]
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Employment Lawyers – Purchase of Company Car – Compromise Agreements
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Company Car, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Consultation, Employment Lawyers, Offer from your employer, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Date, Termination Payment, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
A number of senior management (when facing redundancy/dismissal) have been given the option bytheir employers to purchase their company cars . The terms of the purchase will be included in the employees’ compromise agreements:
“You may purchase the company car at a value specified by the Employer’s [ ] department. This option is exercisable in writing by you by the [...]
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Employment Law Advice – Garden Leave – Compromise Agreement – Dismissal – Redundancy
April 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Dismissal Before the Termination Date, Employment Lawyers, Garden Leave, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Restrictive Covenants, Settlement Payment, Signing Compromise Agreements, Termination Payment, Termination of Employment, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
A number of employees are being placed on garden leave and do not know what to expect during this period. You can be put on garden leave up to and including your termination date. If you are an employee, your employer may require you to sign a compromise agreement whilst on garden leave. This means that you [...]
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Compromise Agreements – Banked Holidays
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · About Compromise Agreement Blog, Banked Holidays, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Entitlement to Untaken Accrued Holidays, Payment Terms, Payment in Lieu of Notice, Payment of Legal Advisers, Payment of Normal Salary, Redundancy, Redundancy Pay, Settlement Payment, Signing Compromise Agreements, Statutory Redundancy Pay, Untaken Holidays, Your Compromise Agreement is a Binding Contract
Some employers are including banked holidays as part of the settlement payment for employees that are facing redundancy. Therefore, if you are an employee facing redundancy, please check with your employer to see whether banked holidays would be taken into account in determining your settlement payment.
If you require further information please contact us at enquiries@rtcooperssolicitors.com [...]
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