WHEN America sneezes, we catch a cold, so the saying goes. What began with a housing slump in the US in spring 2007 developed into a global liquidity crisis in late summer and has now resulted in turmoil in global financial markets.
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AS A result of recent legislation, it is now potentially unlawful to retire a partner. The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 introduced a statutory retirement age of 65, but this applies only to employees.
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AS requested, I’m providing you with some basic advice on the new rules to prevent illegal migrant working, which came into force on February 29 2008.
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THE Government has launched a comprehensive programme to reform Britain’s immigration controls. Businesses must source migrant labour through legal means or face severe penalties.
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AS PART of the strategy for improving equality of opportunity for workers in the region, Equality North East has developed a user friendly benchmarking standard for small and medium employers to assess how well they deal with equality and diversity issues within the workplace.
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COMPANIES, and indeed employees, need to be more aware than ever of the positive and negative effects that the current dispute resolution legislation can have on managers, staff and organisations.
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An important change is that employers are now duty-bound to protect their staff from harassment by customers and the public as well as by their employees.
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