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Conciliation Boards
History The formation on a large scale of conciliation boards in the coal trade to fix the rate of wages dates from the great miners’ dispute of 1893, one of the terms of settlement agreed to at the conference held at the foreign office under Lord Rosebery being the formation of a [...]Continuous Employment
Definition of Continuous Employment In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Continuous Employment : The period for which a person's employment in the same business has subsisted. Under the Employment Rights Act 1996, employees have the right to claim [...]Contract of Employment
Definition of Contract of Employment In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Contract of Employment : (contract of service) A contract by which a person agrees to undertake certain duties under the direction and control of the employer in return for a [...]Course of Employment
Definition of Course of Employment In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Course of Employment : The scope of the work a person is employed to do. An employer may be held responsible under the principle of *vicarious liability for his employee's wrongful [...]Employment
Resources See Also Further Reading Employment in the Encyclopedia of Britain Employment in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Employment in the Halsbury's Laws of England Employment in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Employment in the Jowitt's Dictionary [...]Employment Appeal Tribunal
Definition of Employment Appeal Tribunal In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Employment Appeal Tribunal : (EAT) A statutory body established to hear appeals from *employment tribunals. The EAT consists of a High Court judge as chairman and two or four lay [...]Employment Contracts
Directors' interests in company contracts Contracts of employment Find under this subsection information about Contracts of employment in relation to Directors' interests in company contracts.Employment Law
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Resources See Also Further Reading Employment Schemes in the Encyclopedia of Britain Employment Schemes in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Employment Schemes in the Halsbury's Laws of England Employment Schemes in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases [...]Fair Employment Tribunal
Fair Employment Tribunal in North Ireland The Fair Employment Tribunal is an independent judicial body in Northern Ireland that hears and determines complaints of discrimination on the grounds of religious belief and/or political opinion.History of Labour Legislation
History of Labour Legislation in the UK Introduction In England there were, at the begining of the 20th Century, a notable disappearance from the use of correlative terms implying a social relationship which is greatly changed, for example, in the rapid passage from the Master and Servant [...]History of Working Time
History of Working Time (Hours of Labour) History of Working Time in the United Kingdom The 8-hour day was established in the mining of coal, stratified ironstone, shale and fireclay by the Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1908, and the amending Act of 1919 further reduced the daily hours of [...]Labour and Employment Law Milestone Cases
Abrahams v The Performing Right Society (BAILII: [1995] EWCA Civ 35 ) [1995] ICR 1028, [1995] IRLR 486 Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd (BAILII: [1909] UKHL 1 ) [1909] AC 488 Annamunthodo v Oilfield Workers' Trade Union [1961] AC 945 Associated Newspapers Ltd [...]Labour Law
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Arbitration and Conciliation The extent to which the methods of arbitration and conciliation can be expected to afford a substitute for strikes and lockouts is one on which opinions differ very widely. The difficulties arising from the impossibility of enforcing Future scope and limits. [...]Regional Employment Premiums
Regional Employment Premiums History Introduced in 1967 as a labour subsidy. Initially 30 shillings per adult male per week - less for women and young people - to encourage firms to open manufacturing plants in Development Areas. It was doubled in 1974, then abolished due to policy changes in 1977.Trade Unions
History of Trade Unions From the late Middle Ages there were occasional attempts by workers -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about “Trade Unions”- to stand together when arguing with those who paid them, but the common law made it illegal to combine 'in [...]UK Milestone Cases
List of UK Milestone Cases Tort Law Milestone Cases Tax Law Milestone Cases Property Law Milestone Cases Northern Ireland Legal System Milestone Cases Northern Ireland Land Law Milestone Cases Immigration and Asylum Law Milestone Cases Human Rights (ECHR) Milestone Cases Family Law [...]Unemployment Assistance Board
Unemployment Assistance Board (Uab) History Set up by the 1934 Unemployment Act, as a result of the Royal Commission on Unemployment 1930-32, to implement the household means test. The means test took the wages and assets of all family members were into account before any unemployment [...]In Perpetual Beta
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