A number of useful articles were added to the Legal Island Employment Law Hub throughout the months of October and November. Here is a quick recap of some of the recent developments within the employment law sphere:

Your questions on disciplinary matters are answered:

• Should an internal disciplinary procedure be applied to an employee who is on probation?
  
  
• Can a letter setting out reasons for dismissal be issued by email?
  
  
• Our disciplinary policy includes a penalty of gross misconduct for covertly recording meetings. Is this lawful?
  
  
• Dealing with New Evidence Arising at an Appeal Hearing

Patricia Rooney from Tughans discusses the steps you should take in dealing with a grievance regarding Equal Pay and Jack Balmer, Tughans discusses the Service Provision Change (Protection of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 in a situation where an employer wishes to bring an IT service back in-house.

Dr John McMullen considers the transfer of Minimum Wage Records in his TUPE update focusing on the case of Mears Homecare Ltd v Bradburn. To learn more about the National Minimum Wage listen to Emmie Ellison, A&L Goodbody in this recent video in our Back to Basics series.

Kevin McVeigh, Elliott Duffy Garrett, considers a preliminary ruling at the CJEU which provides some guidance on the responsibility of employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.

An overview of unlawful inducements is provided by the team at MTB solicitors.

Leeanne Armstrong provides guidance on Family Friendly Policies in her regular monthly feature.

Some key stories from our weekly reviews include:

• What To Do If You Hate Your Boss
  
  
• What A Future Without Social Media 'Likes' Could Mean For Industry
  
  
• Employers in GB could be stopped from withholding references to any employee under new proposals.
  
  
• Microsoft Japan sees 40 per cent increase in productivity after introducing four-day week
  
  
• UK Workers 'Pull Sickies To Avoid Going To Work'

Weekly reviews are available here.

You can listen again here to our Employment Law at 11 webinars with Seamus McGranaghan, O’Reilly Stewart Solicitors and register for the next in the series on the 6th December.  We have an additional webinar on the 3rd December with Pinsent Masons and TextHelp and you can register here for it.