According to figures released from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) unemployment across the UK has reached its highest level for 17 years of 8%....
Ashan Arif recently advised Film Medical Holdings on the share sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Film Medical Services Limited. Film Medical Services provides medical, dental and laboratory props to the TV and film industry, notably having supplied props to Hollywood movies Harry Potter and Sweeney Todd....
According to figures released from the Office for National Statistics a private sector worker earns £81 less a week than his/her equivalent state worker....
Ashan Arif advised the shareholders of recruitment company Focus Resourcing Limited on its merger with Venor Resourcing Limited and Celcius Resourcing Limited to form the new dynamic, multi-faceted recruitment group, Focus Resourcing Group Limited....
Small firms with fewer than 10 employees may be able to avoid granting employees parental rights according to details leaked in the Sunday Telegraph....
Migrants from outside the European Economic Area will no longer be able to come to the UK to work as chefs in takeaways from April this year....
Lord Sugar has said that laws banning employers from asking women about children and childcare plans during job interviews are counterproductive....
A survey compiled by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development heaps more criticism on the current Employment Tribunal System....
On 8 February the Government issued a press release announcing that local communities will have the ability to rent, sell or share community owned property purchased with monies received from Central Government, such as council buildings, shops and business parks....
According to figures published by the TUC at the opening of the TUC Women`s Conference in Eastbourne this week, female unemployment has risen by 71,000 over the past year....
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has called for the Chancellor to assist retail business....
Actor Charlie Sheen has reportedly been fired from the hit US sitcom Two and a Half Men by Warner Bros Television....
On Friday 3rd March 2011, Wales voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Assembly being granted direct law-making powers. "To demand respect you must first display self-respect," said the Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones. "Today we have done just that."...
When the political entity which became the European Union was created in the 1950`s, one of its major innovations was to provide for the easy enforcement of Judgments between member states....
In the recent decision of Nicholas Prestige Homes -v- Neal (2010) the Court of Appeal confirmed that a contract will be validly created by an email exchange between the parties....
When companies do business with one or another there is nearly always a contract involved. Differences often arise between the parties and ultimately one party may deem the other`s behaviour to be such that it has breached the contract and sues the breaching party for losses it has suffered....
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) is the UK-wide mandatory emissions trading scheme, which applies to large businesses and public sector organisations and which came into operation on 1 April 2010....
The ET has held in Medhin v Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd t/a Restaurant Associates ET/2300304/10 that an employee who was dismissed for eating a muffin was unfairly dismissed....
We are hosting a networking event in Swansea to launch Forbury Investment Network in Wales on Tuesday 15th March....
In Stephens v Halfords plc ET/1700796/10 the Tribunal has held that an employee`s dismissal for posting negative comments on Facebook was unfair....