Weekly issue 68

News in brief

The Commission on Vulnerable Employment, set up by the TUC, has said in it final report that 62 per cent of the UK's two million vulnerable workforce are female.

Fixing the time

Following the adoption in Europe of the Fixed Term Workers Directive in 1999, member states were required to introduce it into domestic law.

Reasons to dismiss

When deciding whether a dismissal is fair or not, tribunals have to consider whether the dismissal fell within a band of reasonable responses.