As employment law solicitors, we often find when advising on redundancies and compromise agreements that employees are concerned about the length of time they have to keep information confidential. The obligation to keep information about your employer confidential is infinite unless it comes into the public domain or is required to be disclosed by law. […]
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Employment Law, Redundancies, Confidentiality
July 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Breach of Confidential Information, Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Confidentiality Provisions in a Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Independent Legal Advice, Post Termination Restrictions after Signing a Compromise Agreement, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Restrictive Covenants
Employment Law, Redundancies, Data Subject Access
July 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Data Protection, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Independent Legal Advice, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Subject Access Request
In the last few years employers are including restrictions on the right to make a data subject access request in compromise agreements. If an employee is concerned by this and wishes to make a request, he or she should do it before the agreement is signed. From our vast experience as employment lawyers advising on […]
Employment Law, Redundancies, Job reference
July 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Reference
Employers typically give standard job references, which indicate when an employee joined the organisation, when he or she left and the role filled. Having advised many clients on redundancies and reference letters in our capacity as employment law solicitors, it is a good idea to agree that a schedule be attached to a compromise agreement. Further, […]
Employment Law, Redundancy, Return of Company Property, Compromise Agreement, Employment Contract
July 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Return of Company Property after Signing a Compromise Agreement
When facing redundancy or having been dismissed, employees are usually required to return company property. From our experience as employment law solicitors, we would suggest that when doing so, you seek someone senior in the company to sign off on the return, for example, a senior member of HR. This can help ensure that there […]
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Employment Law, Redundancy, Compromise Agreement, Redundancy Pay
July 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Enhanced Redundancy Pay, Ex Gratia, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Redundancy Pay, Severance Pay, Statutory Redundancy Pay
When advising clients on redundancies, we often clarify that the severance payment would be an ex gratia payment made to an employee by his or her employer. This could take the form of a statutory redundancy payment or an enhanced payment, which would include the statutory element. It is up to the employer what it […]
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Employment Law, Holiday Pay, Accrued Holiday
July 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Excess Holiday, Holiday Entitlement, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Redundancy Pay, Untaken Holidays
From our vast experience as employment law solicitors, it is always a good idea as an employee to work out your accrued holiday and agree this with your employer. Just to recapitulate, tax on holiday pay is deducted in the usual way and national insurance is also paid on this. If you need employment advice […]
Employment Law, Restrictive Covenants, Employment Contracts
June 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Contract of Employment, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Non Compete, Non Solicitation, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Restrictive Covenants
Employees must consider any restrictive covenants in their employment contracts before setting up their own businesses, to avoid legal action. The most pertinent restrictions are normally, non-solicitation and non-compete clauses. Employers are rigorously pursuing former employees who breach such clauses especially if they are setting up in competition. If you are thinking of setting up […]
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Employment Law, Compromise Agreement, Redundancy
June 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Warranties
Compromise agreements are not reserved only for redundancy situations. They are also used where parties have reached a mutual arrangement. The fact that it is a mutual arrangement does not affect the terms of compromise agreement and all the standard warranties should be included in such agreements. If you are being made redundant and require advice […]
Employment Law, Company Property, Compromise Agreement, Breach of Contract
June 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law
As employment law solicitors we regularly advise employees on redundancies. From our experience, it is always advisable that when returning company property, there is a “sign off” to indicate that the property have been returned. Otherwise, an employee may breach the terms of his or her compromise agreement, which would amount to a breach of […]
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Employment Law, Loan from Employer, Redundancy
June 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Compromise Agreement Solicitor, Compromise Agreement Solicitors, Compromise Agreements, Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors, Loan, Redundancies, Redundancy, Redundancy law, Redundancy Pay
Sometimes people take out loans from their employers. Depending on the length of employment and whether statutory redundancy or enhanced redundancy is offered, we have seen situations arise where once payment is computed at the end, the employee owes more money than the employer owes him by way of redundancy pay. So employees could find […]