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Your competitors can use your business name to advertise on Google, attract customers that were looking for your name and your services, but when they click on the link, it will get them to their website not yours. We regularly have clients who face these issues and there are legal ways to combat such a scenario.

Your competitors can use your business name to advertise on Google, attract customers that were looking for your name and your services, but when they click on the link, it will get them to their website not yours. We regularly have clients who face these issues and there are legal ways to combat such a scenario.

From 29 July 2013, employers and employees will be able to engage in confidential, "off the record" discussions and negotiations about parting ways on the basis of mutually agreeable terms. In effect, this allows an employer to have a conversation with an employee with the aim of terminating

Compromise agreements have had a name change! However, other than a new title, very little else is changing for these agreements which are regularly used by employers to avoid claims by employees.

Changes to the law mean that employees now have to pay a fee to make a claim to an Employment Tribunal, a process that until 29 July 2013 was free. Depending on the type of claim, there will be different fees to pay (known as Type A & B Claims)

UNISON, one of the UK's largest trade unions, with over 1.3 million members, have won the right to have a judicial review of the introduction of tribunal fees. The review is set for October 2013.

New Tribunal rules came into effect on 29 July 2013 with a view to reducing (tax payer’s) expenses, avoid delays and to reduce needless formality.

As part of the recent shake up in employment law the government capped the award available for claims of unfair dismissal. The cap used to be £74,200, which was the maximum employees could be awarded for claims in a tribunal. This has now been changed to either 12 months’ pay or £74,200 whichever is the lower.

New rules due to come into force in April 2014 introduce a new tier for employees who wish to bring a claim before an employment tribunal. Step one

From 1 October 2013, the following national minimum wage rates apply: