Bevan Kidwell wish to congratulate Joyce Cook on receiving the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year’s Honours. The award is truly deserved for all the work that Joyce has done and continues to do with great enthusiasm for Level Playing Field and Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE) and towards improving the quality of lives of disabled supporters.
A Year in Employment Law
With the end of the year approaching, Bevan Kidwell highlights the key employment law changes of 2011 and predicts what is to come in 2012.
On 3rd October 2011, businesses were invited by the Government to take part in the Red Tape Challenge and help tackle employment related law, bureaucracy and red tape in the latest phase of the Employment Law Review.
The public have a chance to share their views until 19th October 2011 on more than 160 different employment related regulations on all aspects of the workplace. Businesses can express their opinions as to whether they feel any of the regulations could be simplified, improved, better implemented or enforced, or even abolished.
Ministers are seeking views on a variety of issues. Examples of these include the rules on collective redundancies, employment agencies, immigration checks, the National Minimum Wage and statutory sick pay, to make sure they are fit for purpose and easier for businesses to understand.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published a consultation paper (http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/F/11-1308-flexible-effective-fair-labour-market) that invites answers to the following questions, in an attempt to improve employment law.
1) How can we create the space for employers and their staff to manage their relationship effectively?
2) What more can the Government do to reduce the fear factor in employing staff, particularly the first member of staff that a business takes on?
3) What rights should be included in the set of fundamental employment protections?
4) Where do the processes required by the rules hinder the outcome that they are seeking to achieve?
5) What criteria should determine which rights are directly enforced by Government and which by the individual?
You can respond to these questions, and comment on employment law regulations on the Red Tape Challenge website: www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/employment-law
Alternatively, you can write to:
Red Tape Challenge
Labour Market Directorate
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
3 Abbey 1, 1 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0ETOr email: redtapechallenge@bis.gsi.gov.uk
You can comment on any of the above issues at any point during the two year Red Tape Challenge, but it would be more beneficial to receive your comments during the spotlight on employment related regulations between 3rd October and 19th October 2011.
If you require legal advice in relation to employment law issues, please call Irina Bernstein of Bevan Kidwell on 020 7843 18 20 or send your email to irina@bevankidwell.com
We are proud and delighted to announce that Bevan Kidwell, and specifically John Bevan and Lisa Inzani, have passed the strict selection criteria of BIIBAS and have been selected by BIIBAS as one of a small number of professional advisors appearing on the BIIBAS panel of recommended advisors. See http://biibas.bii.org/Panel-Advisors/LegalAdvice.
BIIBAS, (a subsidiary of the BII Benchmarking and Accreditation Service), runs the scheme under which pub operating companies can apply to have their codes of practice accredited as a clear and transparent declaration of the business relationship being offered between the landlord and lessee/tenant and also benchmarked against the criteria established by the current BBPA Code of Practice.
For more information contact john@bevankidwell.com or lisa@bevankidwell.com
We were delighted to welcome many of our clients to the annual Bevan Kidwell Art Event, hosted by our good friends Isobel and Elinor of www.DegreeArt.com.
The show featured new work by Sophie Derrick one of the most exciting young artists to emerge in recent years; go to http://www.degreeart.com/users/sophie-derrick to see Sophie’s work, and see below for some photos of the night.
In addition to providing free legal services to CAFE (a UEFA funded development project, see our March 2011 news item), we are pleased to confirm that we have extended this free service to Level Playing Field, the sister organisation of CAFE.
Level Playing Field (as with CAFE on an EU level) promotes adequate access for disabled fans to football games in the UK and seeks to improve stadium infrastructures in the UK. It also aims to raise disability awareness and improve the lives of disabled people using the special influence of football within the UK.
For more information see http://www.levelplayingfield.org.uk.
This newsletter highlights the main legal risks you need to consider if you are buying another business or enterprise. Before any action is taken you should always take legal advice at the outset of an acquisition.
Jean was delighted to attend the FA Cup Final with Joyce Cook, Managing Director of CAFE – Centre for Access to Football in Europe. CAFE’s aim is to promote and ensure equal access in European football stadiums for disabled supporters and their assistants across UEFA’s region.
Jean was delighted to attend the launch of the Help Harry Help Others campaign for Cancer Research UK earlier this month. Here is a picture of Jean with Harry at the event. www.helpharryhelpothers.com
This newsletter sets out how your business should obtain consent from visitors to your website to store or retrieve information from users’ computers or mobile devices. It is based on guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
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