Weekly issue 54 - January 2001

More relations arrive

We've had the Employment Relations Act 1999, and now the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 has been passed by parliament and is planned to come into force in April 2001

Motoring to employment rights

This case provides a useful guide on considering employee status, and in particular the interpretation of the 'control' test

Ask not what the union can do for you...

Unions have the finite resources with which to advance the collective interests of their members and pursue the union's objects

Compromising positions

The use by employers of settlement agreements to terminate employment continues to provide a steady trickle of case law

Trade unions cross the first CAC hurdles

The doom merchants who predicted that the revamped Central Arbitration Committee would collapse under the flood of cases have been proved wrong

But what does it all mean?

Three recently reported cases may offer some useful guidance in relation to interpretation of contracts in disputes arising on dismissal

Sauce for the goose not the gander

In the case of Clark the Tribunal had to decide what was reasonable notice where the contract of a director was silent on it's length