Hot Topics for 2011 (Part 1)

2011 will be a typically busy year for HR teams and Employment lawyers. I and my Look North Legal colleagues at Samuel Phillips are working with our clients and others to check and adapt contracts and policies to take into account such major developments as the removal of the default retirement age, the extension of rights for Agency Workers and the extension of the right for staff to request time off for training and study leave.

Despite talking hard about “small government” the amount of red tape tying up business shows no immediate sign of abating.

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