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Employment law is constantly changing. PLC Employment offers a specialist online service which:
The service is designed and run by PLC Employment's team of employment specialists, who have extensive experience of all areas of employment law in practice. They are supported by a consultation board, consisting of a prestigious range of academic and professional experts.
PLC Employment gives employment lawyers a level of support that was previously available only to those firms with dedicated professional support lawyers. The service is also valuable to firms with PSLs, by allowing them to concentrate their internal resources where the greatest return lies.
The service includes practical updates on any relevant developments. The updates are available on the PLC Employment homepage as they are written and are also sent to you weekly (or, if you choose, monthly) by e-mail. The updates include:
The most recent items appear on the PLC Employment homepage and the archive of past updates is fully searchable (see Employment updates). There is also an archive of the weekly (and monthly) e-mails (PLC Employment email archive (www.practicallaw.com/0-200-4510)) which means that there is no need for subscribers to retain the updates that are sent to them.
PLC Employment's professional support team monitor all the relevant sources, review any developments for relevance and report on those which raise points that are of significance to practitioners. Where necessary, we purchase copies of decisions from the tribunal or Employment Appeals Tribunal. For an example of a weekly e-mail (and its underlying materials) see PLC Employment weekly e-mail for week ending 26 March 2010 (www.practicallaw.com/7-501-8478).
Our editorial policy is to cover only those developments that are of practical relevance to employment lawyers. This is assessed by our employment professional support team. Our purpose is to shield practitioners from the avalanche of employment law information, relieving them of some of the burden of keeping up to date with current developments.
PLC updates will explain the background where necessary and provide a legal and practical commentary, always bearing in mind the needs of the busy practitioner. Where appropriate, they will include links to external source materials (including transcripts for new cases) and other materials within PLC Employment.
The updates can be used by subscribers for internal training purposes. They can act as a basis for further discussion and can be integrated with subscribers' internal training and briefing materials.
PLC Employment includes practice notes containing succinct explanations of employment law and practice in the relevant area, which focus on the practical application of the law to particular situations or transactions. The list of practice notes currently available is on the PLC Employment homepage and includes, for example:
Our specialist and experienced professional support team continually update all of the practice notes as relevant developments occur.
The service includes a library of standard documents, standard clauses and drafting notes that are available online. The PLC Employment homepage gives access to a list of the standard documents and drafting notes currently available, including, for example:
All of the standard documents and clauses have drafting notes, which give detailed guidance on the relevant legal, negotiating and drafting issues.
PLC Employment's employment specialists continually update the standard documents whenever relevant new legislation comes into force or case law developments occur, in the same way as practice notes. This is a significant feature which sets PLC Employment apart from traditional sources of standard documents, and gives our users a key advantage.
The service also gives access to a number of user-friendly checklists, flow charts and other resources to help the practitioner. The full list of the checklists currently available is on the PLC Employment homepage and includes, for example:
A subscription to PLC Employment gives access to relevant articles that are published in PLC Magazine and other Practical Law Company publications. These publications (in particular PLC Magazine) have included practical articles on important areas of employment law and in depth coverage of employment law developments over a number of years. PLC Employment includes free access to selected articles and to the monthly employment know-how bulletins from PLC magazine. All of these are available through the know-how index or the search facility.
PLC Employment is a developing service. For information on the materials that we plan to add to PLC Employment over the next year, see PLC Employment: provisional publishing schedule (www.practicallaw.com/2-201-4198).
If there are any documents that you would like to see added to the service, please email the professional support team on employmentfeedback@practicallaw.com.
The Practical Law Company's professional support team consists of over 90 professional support lawyers whose experience covers a wide range of practice areas. The PLC Employment service is designed and maintained by PLC’s employment specialists, who work closely with leading practitioners in the field. The team have extensive experience as practitioners in leading London law firms and employment law publishers. For details of the team, see PLC Employment: professional support team. (www.practicallaw.com/9-200-2427)
PLC Employment is a corporate member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA), the Industrial Law Society (ILS) and the Discrimination Law Association. Members of the team are members of PEN (the network of Employment PSLs). PLC Employment also acts as the secretariat to the In-house Employment Lawyers Network.
PLC Employment also has a prestigious consultation board consisting of leading experts drawn from private practice, industry and the academic world. The current members are:
The consultation board advises on the direction of the service and ensures that it stays at the leading edge of practice. The combined experience of Practical Law Company's own specialists and the board enables us to ensure that the materials in the service are of the highest quality, are of practical use to those working in the field and reflect state-of-the-art methods of knowledge management.
Subscribers to PLC Employment include:
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Click on the name of one of our subscribers below to see their testimonial on how they use PLC Employment and gain maximum value.
Other subscriber comments
"Every employment lawyer I know who uses PLC Employment considers it their legal bible. As an in-house employment counsel with responsibility for Europe, the cross-border materials, in particular the multi-jurisdictional guide to Labour and Employee Benefits, is a very valuable resource."Laura Crossley, GE Aircraft Engine Services Limited
"This is a first class service. I was particularly impressed with the alerter service, which allows you to drill down for a more in-depth analysis."Sheila Fahy, Professional Support Lawyer, Allen & Overy
"We have found the PLC Employment Service to be an effective tool when used in conjunction with our own employment know-how and precedents. In an area of law such as Employment where there are frequent changes, the regular updating and quality of the materials provided by PLC and on which our lawyers often rely is invaluable." Marian Derham, Employment Partner, Harbottle & Lewis
"The NTL Legal Department is delighted with its decision to use PLC Employment, as it has allowed us to align our research tools to the PC-based tools we use day-to-day. Having such a comprehensive, high-quality resource no further than our keyboard and mouse saves us time and money, leaving us more efficient, knowledgeable and available to our internal business partners." Robert Mackenzie, Group Legal Director, NTL Group Limited
"We find the PLC Employment weekly e-mail enormously useful and informative, particularly the links to enable us to read further on selected topics." Eilidh Wiseman, Head of Employment Law, Dundas & Wilson CS LLP
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