Legal Updates
12 Tips to Christmas! – Tip 1.
Welcome to the first in our “12 tips to Christmas!” This is a mini survival guide which both business owners and employees may find useful to get them through the festive season without too much trouble! Tip 1 – Decorations! As we hit the month of December, many of...
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Thursday’s Thoughts!
Last week, Talem Law received a few calls concerning employment law queries from working parents of disabled children. This got us thinking about the issue more generally and what legislation is in place which working parents may possibly (depending on the circumstances) avail themselves of to manage their professional obligations alongside their personal caring responsibilities. These are of interest to working parents generally but may be particularly useful for working parents of disabled children who have caring responsibilities too (this summary does not deal with employment rights of carers).
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SEN Myth Buster!
Myth: – “Parents cannot obtain their own professional reports when requesting or advising on the contents of an Education Health and Care plan (EHCp) or when reviewing their child’s EHCp as these reports will not be independent.”
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When is someone self-employed?…..Not when they are an Uber driver it would appear….for the time being at least…..
Last year, you may recall hearing about the landmark Employment Tribunal (ET) decision which declared that Uber drivers were not self-employed but were in fact “workers.” This was a significant decision as many employment law rights are available to “workers” (not to the self-employed) such as an entitlement to receive the national minimum wage and paid annual leave.
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Post-16 Transport to Education and Training
The Department of Education has recently published the above statutory guidance.
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What does “educate and train” mean in the context of the CFA 2014?
This was the issue which was examined by the Upper Tribunal in the case of GL v West Sussex CC (SEN) [2017] UKUT 414 (AAC) which considered this question of the meaning and proper application of the expression “educates or trains” in the context of section 21(5) of the Children and Families Act 2014(“CFA 2014”).
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Employment tribunal fee refund scheme launched opens
Following the ruling by the Supreme Court that the fees charged by the employment tribunal, thousands of people are due refunds from the government. The scheme for making repayments started in at the end of October, 2017.
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