Mark McAllister from the Labour Relations Agency will be opening and closing this year's Annual Reviews of Employment Law on 10 and 13 November, where he will set out a review of this year's changes and next year's intended variations in the employment law field. As a precursor to his comprehensive review paper, we asked him to set out many of the highlights he will be expanding upon at the conferences.

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In the Eurovision song contest many years ago Johnny Logan sang, “What’s another year?” and although one is tempted to reply, “Fifty two weeks, now get lost!”, we practitioners in the field of employment law feel that a much more cultured riposte would be, “A significant period of