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Employment law brief: 9 February 2024

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09 February 2024 / Ian Smith
Issue: 8058 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Attention, TUPE geeks! Ian Smith talks us through a transfer case with a difference, as well as the latest employment developments
  • The common law defence of novus actus interveniens.
  • Three computational issues in unfair dismissal compensation.
  • TUPE: effect of the transfer of perpetrator, not the claimant.

The current flurry of employment-related legislation continued last month, with (i) changes to immigration law to introduce a new code of practice for employers and an increase in the administrative penalty for getting it wrong from £20,000 to £60,000, as from 13 February; (ii) the removal of the ‘family-related workers’ national minimum wage exception, as from 1 April; (iii) new rules on the composition of employment tribunals (ETs) and the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), full commencement dependent on the senior president of tribunals; and (iv) a revised Acas code of practice on flexible working, to be brought into force by order.

Also continuing is the governmental bad habit of late production of these changes. For example, the ET/EAT changes were published

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