Weekly issue 77 - February 2003

Night nurses bank minimum wage

The National Minimum Wage Compliance Team is an arm of the Inland Revenue charged with the task of enforcing the minimum wage with extensive powers to bring infringing employers to the Tribunal

Practice makes custom perfectly binding

Disputes over contractual terms have kept lawyers in good business over the centuries

The essence of time in discrimination cases

Three months is the magic number for bringing most Tribunal claims

Violence in the workplace

Violence at work is a huge and ever increasing problem at many workplaces

Law fails 'real life' test

Two recent decisions deal with what can often be sensitive issues surrounding the employment of transexuals

Calculating pension loss

New on the Employment Tribunal Website is the welcome and overdue consultation document on pension calculations in tribunals

Court of Appeal fails to deduce disability

The role and importance of medical evidence in determining whether an individual is disabled in disability discrimination claims has now been considered by the Court of Appeal judgment of Woodrup v London Borough of Southwark