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News articles and opinion pieces from Steen & Co Employment Solicitors
Male Employee wins sex discrimination case over maternity leave discrimination
An article explaining a case involving a firm of solicitors who treated a woman favourably simply because of her maternity leave.
Read article →The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
HMRC have changed the way companies must deduct tax on payments made to ex employees
Read article →Successful defence of a claim that an employment tribunal was biased against the (losing) claimant
Steen & Co Employment Solicitors some time ago successfully represented a major software company in an employment tribunal. The losing ex employee appealed to the EAT claiming that the employment tribunal was biased against her.
Read article →Statutory Maternity Pay - paying it in a lump sum is possible but be careful!
It is possible to pay Statutory Maternity Pay in a compromise agreement but it has to be described as such and taxed properly
Read article →Serial Litigant in Employment Tribunals – a recent case and advice on how to deal with them
Article on recent case in the Employment Appeal Tribunal regarding age discrimination and a serial litigant
Read article →Maximum Compensation February 2010
The government's annual review of employment tribunal compensation limits
Read article →Redundancy and unfair dismissal pay increase 1 October 2009
Redundancy pay in 2009
Read article →Government approves new Minimum Wage rate for October 2009
Minimum Wage rates in 2009
Read article →Tribunal success over redundancy process
redundancy issues
Read article →Minimum Wage Increase 2008
Minimum Wage Increase
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