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Apr 2016
The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has held that a tribunal was incorrect to strike out a whistleblowing complaint on the grounds of prospects of success. The tribunal had dismissed the complaint at a preliminary hearing because the employee was stated to have no prospects of successfully showing that she had reasonably believed her complaint about…
29
Apr 2016
Research conducted by the Women’s Business Council and My Family Care has found that many employees are not taking advantage of Shared Parental Leave. Shared Parental Leave allows employee parents (by birth or by adoption) choice and flexibility in the early stages of their child’s life, enabling them to share what would traditionally have been…
29
Apr 2016
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that a provision relating to absence management which was set out in a staff handbook had been incorporated into contracts of employment; therefore, a new attendance policy which the employer purported to introduce did not vary the employment contract and was not binding on the employees. At common law,…
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Apr 2016
According to a survey by Prostate Cancer UK, British men are dangerously ignorant of the prostate gland, with nearly 20% of those surveyed not aware they had a prostate and 54% not knowing where it was. Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer in men, with 40,000 cases being diagnosed and nearly 11,000 men…
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Apr 2016
Scientists have developed a new drug which it is hoped could save the lives of millions of people a year. Sepsis, which is also referred to as septicaemia or blood poisoning, has no direct cure and currently kills more people than prostate, bowel and breast cancer combined. The condition affects over 19 million people internationally…
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Apr 2016
The new drug, Nivolumab, boosts the patient’s immune system to fight tumours instead of using standard chemotherapy. It dramatically improved the survival rates of patients in recent US trials and experts say it could be a ‘game changer’ in fighting aggressive head and neck cancers. The drug is currently available on the NHS for advanced…
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