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TEAM members and employer organisations alike are set to benefit from the association’s ever-growing list of preferred Service Providers, providing a one-stop-shop from skills/credit checking and telephony services to free legal advice and recruitment software, in all recruitment sectors.

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Edward Davey MP, minister for employment relations, has revealed that the Government is planning a review of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (“the Regulations”) in 2013.

CV-Library’s clients are increasing their exposure and sharing all of their job adverts on LinkedIn.

In the case of Wincanton plc v Atkinson and another, the EAT has overturned a tribunal's decision that two lorry drivers had been unfairly dismissed where they had accidentally allowed their HGV licences to expire, and had therefore been carrying dangerous loads with no licence or insurance. It was found that the tribunal had placed too much emphasis on the fact that there had been no adverse consequences from the employees' mistake and it had been well within the band of reasonable responses for the employer to dismiss the employees, taking into account the potentially "horrific" consequences of the mistake, despite the fact that those consequences never materialised.

The EAT in the recent case of OTG Ltd v Barke held that the protection afforded to employees under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (¡§TUPE¡¨) does apply to pre-pack administrations.

In the case of Chatwal v Wandsworth Borough Council, the EAT considered a tribunal’s decision that a significant number of Sikhs did not share the claimant's belief that touching meat was forbidden.

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On 7 July 2011, the Advocate General delivered her opinion in KHS AG v Schulte C-214/10, which is a German case concerning the relationship between the right to take annual leave under the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC) and long-term sick leave.