Liz Stevens

Thanks! Yes I was listening to the debate on it and then spotted the voting #confused

I'm struggling to follow it as I'm having to dip in and out - have they voted on day 1 unfair dismissal yet??

The 'do your quadratic equations' phase is far worse, believe me!

And confirmation that it will a right to be offered not a right to request guaranteed hours.

And confirmation that it will a right to be offered not a right to request guaranteed hours.

This headline overstates the legal significance of this Employment Tribunal decision. It was unfair and not in accordance with her contract to sack this worker on the spot for having said it. They should have gone through a disciplinary process. Think twice before having a word with your boss.

Employment Rights Bill has been passed by the House of Lords. It now goes back to the Commons to consider the amendments that have been made.

As a newly qualified solicitor I felt like I should know all the answers (and felt deficient when I didn't) but now I realise the job is all about asking the right questions. I wish I'd known that 25 years ago!

It looks like quite a significant amendment to Clause 25 and the re-introduction of 'one establishment' for the purposes of s188 thresholds, subject to the power to introduce a higher threshold across multiple establishments? At least, that's my (probably inept) reading of it...

Employment Rights Bill to boost productivity for British workers and grow the economy The Government will today table amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.

The press release is out, but no sign (yet) of the consultation responses or the updated Bill. Bracing for impact....
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Employment Rights Bill 2024-25: Progress of the bill The second reading of the Employment Rights Bill 2024-25 took place on 21 October 2024. This briefing covers the bill's progress from second reading through to the end of its committee stage.

Detailed and very helpful Research Briefing from the always-excellent Commons Library, setting out progress of the Employment Rights Bill up to the end of the Committee Stage:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Picking up the discussion of lawyer’s estimates of prospects of success. First, a description of some different approaches, then a howl of pain /1

Connie this is a work of art!

Guaranteed hours – who will qualify? How many hours do you have to work before you are no longer on a ‘low hours’ contract? The question is crucial to the right to guaranteed hours contained in the Employment Rights Bill currently at …

Who will qualify for the right to be offered guaranteed hours? In the Employment Rights Bill Committee Stage debate on 3 December, the Government suggested that the scope of the new right might be wider than you think.

New post from me:
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I really hope you're right about guaranteed hours contracts 🤞

Employment Rights Bill – increasing time limits for tribunal claims The Employment Rights Bill is about to reach the stage when the Commons Committee considers proposed amendents. Some of these are proposed by the opposition but I don’t think we need to spend too m…

Some thoughts on the Government increasing the Tribunal time limit from three to six months:
rangeofreasonableresponses.com/2024/11/28/e...

Getting more and more frustrated with the 'Right to Guaranteed Hours' under the Employment Rights Bill. You can't say anything sensible about how it will work because all the crucial details - a total of 15 of them! - are left to Regulations. It's not good lawmaking.