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  • 12 June 2019
  • Employment

Succession Planning – Are you ready for the future?

If one of the key individuals in your company, such as a manager or someone with technical skills, was to resign tomorrow morning, would you be able to identify their successor? This is a question that many businesses struggle to answer, with companies more likely to recruit from outside the business when vacancies arise, than look for a suitable replacement among their existing staff.

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  • 12 June 2019
  • Employment

Favouritism, micromanaging and poor instructions – the errors managers continue to make

New research shows that nearly 50% of employees have at some point resigned as a direct consequence of their poor working relationship with their manager. Process management firm Process Bliss undertook the research, conducting an online survey within the UK of small to medium sized businesses.

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  • 07 June 2019
  • Public projects and procurement

Does abandoning a tender defeat a bidder’s claim?

Under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, bidders who are successful in establishing that a public body has breached its duties in the running of a regulated tender are entitled to recover damages. Other remedies may also be available, depending on whether a contract has been entered into or not by the public body.

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  • 07 June 2019
  • Employment

The use of medical aids, including contact lenses, when assessing disability

The recent case of Mart v Assessment Services Inc has brought the question of disability and medical treatment to the forefront once again. The Equality Act 2010 offers special protection to individuals who are disabled.

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  • 03 June 2019
  • Employment

Tracking your employees – Is this a step too far?

It has been revealed that hundreds of UK business are using artificial intelligence to monitor employee activity. Is this an innovative way to analyse productivity or a stressful scrutinisation of individuals’ activity?

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  • 09 May 2019
  • Employment

Knowledge of disability

In the recent case of Baldeh v Churches Housing Association of Dudley and District Ltd, the EAT allowed an appeal by a Claimant against the Tribunal’s decision to reject her claim for disability related discrimination. Whilst it was found that the Respondent did not have knowledge of the Claimant’s disability (either actual or constructive) prior to dismissing her, it had gained this knowledge when it was told of her depression at the appeal hearing.