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 Legal round-up for businesses, by Robert Meaton & Co Solicitors
Edition 2 - Autumn 2011
The Robert Meaton & Co Team
Employment law round-up
 Agency workers
The Agency Workers Directive will come into force on 1st October 2011. “Temps” will become entitled to many of the same basic conditions of employment as directly hired employees including pay, leave, working time rules, and use of staff facilities. However some rights will require a qualifying period of 12 weeks and the legislation will not affect redundancy, sick pay, or maternity/paternity pay.
Pensions act
Employers need to start preparing now for the provisions of the Pensions Act 2008 coming into effect next year. All employers will be obliged to enrol staff aged between 22 and state pension age and are not already in company pension scheme into a “personal account” pension scheme. The legislation will be introduced gradually over 4 years from October 2012 depending on an employer’s size, beginning with large employers first.
Employment tribunals
New statistics have just published by the Ministry of Justice for the year 2010/2011 show that the number of employment claims was 218,100.
Religious Discrimination – Employment Appeal Tribunal
A case heard in June at the EAT resulted in an interesting decision relating to the conflict between business needs and religious obligations. Muslim security guard Mr Charfi had claimed that not being allowed to leave work every Friday lunchtime to attend a local mosque amounted to indirect religious discrimination.
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Other legal news
Does your company have a website? Then you need to read this:
 New rules on cookies: Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Cookies are small files that are saved in an individual user’s Internet browser that are used to customise a user's browsing experience. New EU regulations that came into force in May 2011 require website owners to get “explicit consent” from users before cookies are stored on their computers. In effect this makes thousands of websites illegal under European law.
Bribery act
A court clerk has become the first person charged under the new Bribery Act. He is accused of asking for money in return for helping a person in relation to a motoring charge and he will appear in Court himself in October.
Debt collection offer
Cash is the lifeblood of any organisation. Our experienced debt collection team can help to improve cash flow by recovering debts is a timely and cost efficient manner. Until the end of the year we are offering to collect the first debt free as an introduction to our debt services.
The offer is for pre-litigation stage only and does not include disbursements.
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To find out more about any of the legal topics in this newsletter contact:
Andrew Davies, Partner, Robert Meaton & Co Solicitors
e: andrewdavies@rmandco.co.uk t: 0845 634 9955
Victoria Buildings, 1 Princess Street, Manchester M2 4DF
www.rmandco.co.uk
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