Overview

This e-bulletin includes short summaries on the following recent developments:

• Age discrimination: proposal to remove statutory default retirement age from October 2011
• Age discrimination: Court of Appeal relaxes test for justifying a retirement age
• Age discrimination and enhanced redundancy pay schemes: cap based on service to retirement age was lawful
• Employees abroad: extension to unfair dismissal and discrimination rights
• Holiday rights: claim for previous years defeated by payment for holiday accrued in termination year
• Pregnant employees: EU law permits cessation of allowances for specific tasks no longer being performed
• Recent TUPE cases: transfer of union recognition and post-transfer dismissals
• Compromise agreements: public sector employer's payment of more than potential litigation award not ultra vires
• Discrimination: arbitrators protected
• Coalition plans: review of paternity rights, agency workers and two tier code
• Financial institution bonuses: EU rules impose tough new restrictions
• New resources: holidays, Equality Act, CAC and tribunal statistics

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