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Aug 2015
A study, reported in the journal Current Biology, has revealed that in tests on mice, irregular sleeping patterns have clearly been shown to lead to cancer, lending weight to concerns about the impact of shift work on health. During the study, mice that had an increased risk of developing breast cancer had their body’s internal…
04
Aug 2015
According to an enquiry by Healthwatch England, high levels of hospital readmissions are being blamed on the poor way patient discharges are handled. The watchdog researched patient surveys, 3,000 patient reports, and information obtained from Freedom of Information requests, and found that any hospitals were failing to contact relatives or investigate whether the patient’s home environment…
04
Aug 2015
According to a report by the King’s Fund and the Health Foundation think tanks, a “transformation fund” of £1.5bn a year needs to be invested in addition to the £8bn which has been promised by the government by the year 2020, which would pave the way for investment in new areas of care. The Health…
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Jul 2015
The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has stated that, in principle, voluntary overtime can be included in calculating holiday pay. Although this case was decided in Northern Ireland, it could be persuasive throughout England and Wales. The Court looked at voluntary overtime as being overtime that an employer is not obliged to offer to its…
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Jul 2015
The Court of Appeal has once again emphasised that an Employment Tribunal should not substitute its own view of what it considers that an employer should have done in cases of misconduct but should rather determine whether the decision of an employer to dismiss for misconduct was within what is known as the ‘band of…
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Jul 2015
The first Conservative Budget of the new Parliament was announced on 08 July 2015. During the course of this Budget, there were several announcements which had significant implications for both employers and employees alike. The first of these is the introduction of what is to be called the new National Living Wage. This is effectively…
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