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Do you remember: Stringer v HMRC - Tribunal ruled that workers could accrue holiday pay whilst on sick leave and that holiday should be allowed to be carried forward into the next holiday year.

In Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v de Belin, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) held that a male employee was discriminated against on the grounds of sex when he was selected for redundancy after a colleague on maternity leave was automatically given the highest possible score in respect of one of the selection criteria.

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter are just some of the social media networking sites that have been causing many of us woes in terms of how to control employees’ updates, status’ and tweets. The management of social media at work is therefore another one of those issues that is just enormous ‘shades of grey’!

Secret squirrel... Investigating private investigators - see page 3 inside! Also this issue: social media, supporting employees with cancer, mentoring moments plus our regular employment law roundup.

Graduate sponsorships, internships, careers fairs, recruitment apps, talking CVs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google… these are just some of the tactics some of corporates use to snap up young talent entering the employment market. But who does that leave in the talent pool for everyone else?

As we see the last of the autumn leaves falling, and those long dark nights draw in, it’s all change here in the UK. But it’s not all doom and gloom! In this week’s update we look at the employment law changes you can expect to see in 2012/2013 and the proposed reforms to the tribunal system…