duty of care – Law Journals

Legal news: Employment update

Lesley Finlayson rounds up the latest developments affecting employers and their advisers Employers should only discuss retirement plans with employees when they have a clear and proportionate legitimate aim such as succession planning. Enquiring about retirement plans alongside grievance management was discriminatory In Tapping v Ministry of Defence [2021], a civil servant has won an …

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Local authorities: A careful balance

Sarah Erwin-Jones and Louise Fisher look at the responsibilities of local authorities to children who remain living at home with their family It is important to distinguish the duty of care which arises after a full care order, where the local authority becomes a statutory parent, from the entirely different position of a child receiving …

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