http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:09:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think that there is a serious problem with the positive action provisions in the Equality Act.The problem lies not in the principle of positive action (or positive discrimination if you prefer, I don’t care what you call it) but in how the provisions are drafted and what the coalition government ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/06/01/the-problem-with-positive-action/ You can see why Unite the Union would be cross. To have had the long and winding process of organizing large scale industrial action end in an injunction granted over 11 spoilt ballot papers out of the thousands returned seems downright bizarre. Welcome to the world of industrial ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/05/18/why-ba-got-that-injunction/ The Equality Act 2010 received Royal Assent at about 5.30 on Thursday 8th April in a rather archaic ceremony in the House of Lords. However the substantive provisions of the Act will not come into force automatically. They have to be brought into force by a Ministerial Order ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/07/the-equality-act-2010-%e2%80%93-when-will-it-come-into-force/ Employment law moves more quickly than any other legal area I know. Last week I presented three separate employment law updates and by the end of the week one of the cases I mentioned had been overturned by the Court of Appeal. The case is Sarkar v West London ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/24/update-on-an-employment-law-update/ The trade union Unite has been in the news over the last few days in the context of the forthcoming strike at British Airways which has in turn led to a lot of noise being made about the way in which the union funds the Labour party.  While ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/16/trade-unions-funding-the-labour-party/ Workplace bullying seems to be in the news this week – can’t think why. As an employment lawyer I have a problem with bullying. Let me rephrase that. I find it difficult to talk about bullying because there is no legal concept of bullying as such.  An employee can’t ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/22/the-thing-about-workplace-bullying/ I think I first remember hearing the phrase ‘its political correctness gone mad’ in a spitting image sketch in the 1980s. I can’t remember what the sketch was about – but the Daily Mail was mentioned. As an employment lawyer who spends a lot of time training managers ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/21/political-correctness-gone-mad/ The Lords Committee Stage of the Equality Bill has been making rapid progress and barring something dramatic happening it is clear that the Bill does now have time to make it onto the statute books. A number of amendments have been made - perhaps most notably a measure making it ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/01/equality-bill-bombing-through-the-lords/ As someone planning to fly with BA on 23rd December I’m more than usually keen to know the basis on which BA is planning to challenge the industrial action in the courts – see the news story here. On this basis BA seems to be relying on the fact ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/12/15/legla-challenge-to-the-ba-strike/ The Equality Bill completed its Report Stage and Third Reading in the House of Commons today. It is now off to the House of Lords. I havn't been able to check all of the amendments that were made but the proceedings of the Bill published so far show the Government proposing ... http://www.incotraining.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/12/02/equality-bill-clears-the-commons/