Forward to a colleague View as a webpage Add us to your white list Quick Links »  Survey   Employment law   Health and safety   From our blogs   News from XpertHR Take part in our research Discipline and grievance survey XpertHR is researching employer practice in relation to discipline and grievance procedures. Complete this questionnaire to receive a complimentary copy of the 2013 XpertHR report on using background checks in recruitment. Top Employment law Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill receives Royal Assent The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill received Royal Assent on 25 April 2013, making it the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. Alongside this, the Government has announced implementation dates for some of the employment law changes introduced by the Act. Case report round-up: Sunday working policy was justified The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld the tribunal's decision that the employer's policy that all employees work their share of Sunday working in accordance with its rotas did not amount to unlawful religious discrimination because it was objectively justified, in one of the latest case reports added to XpertHR. Tribunal update: Police force's cost-cutting exercise "shambolic" but not discriminatory We provide a summary and the full transcript of a recent employment tribunal ruling rejecting an age discrimination claim by a police officer who left after being chosen for redeployment, despite the tribunal describing the police force's cost-cutting exercise as "shambolic" and "to some degree incompetent". New model letters on changes to additional paternity leave plans A new model letter responding to an employee who has notified his intention to withdraw an application for additional paternity leave and a letter informing an employee who wishes to return to work early from additional paternity leave that he has provided insufficient notice have been added to the XpertHR policies and documents section. Case reports stop press XpertHR's case reports stop press service highlights recent key cases including the EAT decision in JJ Food Service Ltd v Kefil upholding the employment tribunal decision that a manager was unfairly dismissed for behaving in an "over-authoritarian manner" because he was not warned that a possible consequence of continuing to act in this way was dismissal. Top Health and safety Löfstedt: the verdict so far A look at the progress on the implementation of Professor Ragnar Löfstedt's recommendations and the effects on business. Top From our blogs Top 10 HR questions April 2013 The top 10 FAQs on XpertHR in April 2013 cover a new challenge for HR as well as some perennial issues. XpertHR economic commentary May 2013: Playing with fire? XpertHR's economic commentary for May 2013 reports on latest data and expected future trends in a number of key economic indicators of direct relevance to HR professionals and reward specialists. Best of the HR blogs April 2013: 19 great HR blog posts from April 2013 A round-up of the best HR blog posts in April, including bad bosses, recipes for HR success and Jedi wisdom for HR. Outsourced Barnet Council staff unfairly dismissed after Croydon and Lancing relocations A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 22 April 2013, including a tribunal finding that six parking enforcement workers who were made redundant - when the services they provided were outsourced to a private company and their jobs relocated from Barnet to Croydon and Lancing - were unfairly dismissed. Top News from XpertHR Coming soon to XpertHR Forthcoming additions to XpertHR include guidance on dealing with the provision of employee benefits following a TUPE transfer in our "how to" section. Top Editor's message HAVE YOU TAKEN PART IN THE XPERTHR DISCIPLINE AND GRIEVANCE SURVEY? XpertHR is gathering information on organisations' approaches to and recent experiences of discipline and grievances. Take part in our discipline and grievance survey to let us know the issues that result in disciplinary action and employee grievances in your organisation, how frequently they arise and how they are dealt with. We are also looking at the frequency of unresolved grievances and disciplinary action resulting in employment tribunal claims, along with organisations' experiences of using Acas pre-claim conciliation. Employers have until 17 May to take part. Jo Stubbs Head of content, XpertHR XpertHR Weekly podcast: Managing hours of work XpertHR calendar Keep up to date with all the major events and dates with our HR calendar. Find the right place to advertise your job vacancy. Research and compare job sites and the regional, trade and national press. Save time and money on recruitment advertising. 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