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Owen White writes regular articles for clients and other interested parties – click on any of the links below to read them. We also produce informative newsletters covering a wide range of issues. Visit our newsletter library if you would like to read or receive our newsletters.

National Minimum Wage
Increases to the National Minimum Wage from 1 October 2010
23 August 2010 | Employment News August 2010

Consultation on the future of the right to request time off to train
Workers in businesses with more than 250 employees have had the legal right to request time off to carry out relevant training since April 6 2010
23 August 2010 | Employment News August 2010

Default Retirement Age
The Government has confirmed it is to abolish the Default Retirement Age (DRA) of 65.
23 August 2010 | Employment News August 2010

Equality Act 2010
The much-anticipated Equality Act 2010 (the 2010 Act) received Royal Assent on 8 April 2010 and is largely due to come into effect in October. A main feature of the 2010 Act is to consolidate, harmonise and simplify the anti-discrimination legislation that have developed over the past 40 years.
21 July 2010 | Employment News July 2010

Sex Discrimination and Redundancy Scoring
In De Belin v Eversheds Legal Services Ltd [2010], an employment tribunal held that the employer had discriminated against a male lawyer on grounds of sex when, in a redundancy scoring exercise, it had inflated the score of his female colleague to take account of the fact that she was on maternity leave.
21 July 2010 | Employment News July 2010