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02 April 2015
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Civil way: 3 April 2015

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Employment tribunal limits up; Latest credit hire ruling; Pleading diarrhoea; New CoP rules & CPR latest update

ON—AND OFF—THE JOB

The annual RPI tweak of employment tribunal award limits will impact on post-5 April 2015 axings where the employee can afford to make a claim. As employment tribunal judges and their deputies contemplate taking their knitting to work with a circa 80% drop in business and the renaming of their bases to unemployment tribunals, the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2015 (SI 2015/226) raises the limits by 2.3%. For the unfair dismissal compensatory award, for example, this means a new ceiling of £78,335 and the cuddly one week’s pay panning out at £475. And for employment anoraks, the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunals Fees (Amendment) Order 2015 (SI 2015/414) which swept into force on 25 March 2015 clarifies that an employer’s contract counterclaim fee is to be charged as a type A and not a type B.

The ACAS code of practice on disciplinary procedures has been revised as from 11 March

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