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Features & Articles
Sometimes you need a bit more detail on a subject - here are some more in-depth articles and features on key employment law topics.
| Keeping up with changes to pay regulation in the financial sector is an on-going task, with regulators issuing what seems to be a never-ending series of new consultations and proposals. Read more... |
| Every year changes are made to employment laws in the UK. The majority of these changes are usually implemented in early April and early October. Below is a summary of the key changes for 2013. Read more... |
| In our recent seminar titled “Suspicious Minds” we, together with Stuart Ritchie QC, discussed how to protect your confidential information and recover information stolen by employees in the era of cloud computing. Read more... |
| Recent case law has highlighted the need for employers to exercise caution when issuing warnings to employees under their disciplinary procedure. Read more... |
| With the City continuing to go through tough times, many companies’ standard settlement and compromise agreements are being much-used at the moment. Read more... |
| Greater Manchester Police has become the first police force in the country to record attacks on members of subcultures such as goths, punks and emos as hate crimes. Read more... |
| The Employment Appeal Tribunal have upheld an Employment Tribunal’s decision that a redundancy situation existed even though a replacement for an under-performing practice manager had already been recruited by a medical practice before dismissal of the claimant. Read more... |
| On 1 April 2013, the “big bang” Jackson/civil justice reforms were implemented, bringing significant changes to procedures in the civil courts by amending the procedural rules, the Civil Procedure Rules (more commonly known as the CPR). What does this mean for High Court litigation? Read more... |
| Antony Jenkins has recently been openly courting the media with his message that Barclays is changing. Read more... |
| The press attention surrounding the NHS has recently raised public interest in employees blowing the whistle and the protections available to them. Read more... |
| In Geys v Société Générale, London Branch, the Supreme Court has held that an employee was employed until the date on which he was deemed to have received unequivocal communication of his employer’s decision to exercise its contractual right to summarily dismiss him by making a payment in lieu of notice (PILON). Read more... |
| Should a warning received aged 11 for stealing two bikes be disclosed in criminal record checks for an application seven years later for a sports studies course which involves teaching and contact with children? Read more... |
| On Tuesday 12 February 2013 ACAS launched a public consultation on its new Code of Practice on Settlement Agreements. Read more... |
| On 5 February 2013 the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published draft regulations which pave the way for changes to the collective redundancy rules. Read more... |
| Despite an almost overwhelming lack of support from UK businesses and the broader community, the UK Government has decided to push ahead with a novel employee share-ownership scheme. Read more... |
| The recent Court of Appeal decision in Clyde & Co and another -v- Bates van Wilkenhof has confirmed that LLP members are not “workers” for the purposes of bringing whistleblowing claims against the LLP. Read more... |
| Thursday 6 December 2012 - This seminar will look at the practical HR issues that arise when companies outsource or offshore parts of their business. Read more... |
| In what seems like an ever-shifting landscape, there have been a number of developments relating to the Remuneration Code recently which FSA-regulated clients need to be aware of. Read more... |
| There have been a few recent cases on restrictive covenants that have answered some interesting questions. Read more... |
| The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that, when applying the reasonableness test in unfair dismissal cases, the Employment Tribunal should confine themselves to the employer’s reason for dismissal Read more... |
| For those clients who are subject to the FSA’s Remuneration Code, there were a number of developments over the summer Read more... |
| Over the summer the champion of entrepreneurs Luke Johnson wrote an article in the Financial Times about the “business owners who exploit regulation to prey on entrepreneurs”. Read more... |
| Recent scandals in the banking sector have resulted in a renewed focus on the appropriate structure for universal banks. Read more... |
| We recently ran a seminar on the importance of risk and psychology in managing employment law issues and, in particular the need for HR professionals and employment lawyers to understand the risk profile of their organisation. Read more... |
| Further to our update in last month’s “Have I Got Employment News for You?”, we provide a more detailed review of the recent landmark bonus decision concerning Dresdner Kleinwort and its potential implications for employers, especially the potential for team announcements to become binding promises. Read more... |
| Mr Teggart was an employee of TeleTech UK Limited, working as a customer service representative. From his home, on his own computer and in his own time, Mr Teggart posted an obscene comment about the promiscuity of a female colleague, A, on his Facebook page. Read more... |
| The Supreme Court has recently issued its long-awaited decision in the Seldon and Homer cases on compulsory retirement age and indirect age discrimination. However, the court has not really given employers guidance as to how to proceed on a practical level. Read more... |
| Over the last 25 years a myriad of employment laws have been introduced. Read more... |
| The Advocate General has recently given his opinion on when the obligation to consult on collective redundancies arises under Directive 98/59 Read more... |
| The case of Johnson Controls v Mr Campbell/United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is the latest of a number of cases concerning the service provision change regulations under TUPE Read more... |
| Can an employer justify a discriminatory act on the ground of cost alone, or does it have to point to cost plus another factor (the “cost plus” approach)? The Court of Appeal in Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust revisited this point. Read more... |
| It's that time of year again, when changes to employment regulations kick in. Here's a reminder of the key changes: Read more... |
| 13 million working days are lost each year because of stress so how should employers react? Our findings from our recent seminar "Frankie Says Relax!" Read more... |
| The High Court has decided that the key feature of solicitation (whether face to face by letter, telephone or email or any other way) is that an element of persuasion is required. It is the requirement for the existence of persuasion that distinguishes non-solicitation restrictions from non-dealing restrictions. Read more... |
| The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that decisions as to redundancy pools and selection criteria are matters for management and the employment tribunal should rarely interfere with them. Read more... |
| By Robin Allen QC, Cloisters Barristers' Chambers Read more... |
| Stress seems to be rising in the western world and stress in the workplace in the twenty first century is the most common cause of "work-related sickness absence". Read more... |
| Following the removal of the default retirement age in the UK, the issue of when compulsory retirement ages might be allowable is very much a live one. Read more... |
| There have been three recent cases on this issue - two quite helpful for employers, but the other one less so. Read more... |
| A reminder that the Agency Worker Regulations came into force on 1 October 2011. Read more... |
| Anyone who has listened to Vince Cable recently will know that he is on a tireless crusade to reduce executive pay. There have been two developments in this area. Read more... |
| In the case of Whitham v Club 24 Ltd t/a Ventura, the Employment Tribunal found the dismissal of an employee for making derogatory comments about her employer on Facebook to be unfair on the basis that the comments did not specifically refer to a client nor was there any evidence that the client relationship had been harmed or was likely to be harmed as a result of the comments. Read more... |
| At the Conservative party conference, George Osborne announced that the qualifying period for unfair dismissal will be increased from one to two years with effect from April 2012. In addition, fees for bringing Employment Tribunal claims will also be introduced from April 2013. Read more... |
| In Lancaster v TBWA Manchester the EAT upheld a Tribunal’s decision that an employer did not breach its duty to make reasonable adjustments by refusing to replace subjective redundancy selection criteria with objective redundancy selection criteria. Read more... |
| A couple of cases involving collective redundancy situations and the EAT's decisions. Read more... |
| D (a child) serves as a usual reminder of the ramifications of waiver of legal privilege. Read more... |
| Employment liabilities when an insolvent business is transferred. Read more... |
| This is an interesting TUPE case to watch. Read more... |
| New rules on European Works Councils came into force on 5 June 2011 which include more prescriptive requirements for the process of information and consultation. Read more... |
| In NHS Manchester v Fecitt and others the Court of Appeal decided that an employer cannot be liable for its employees victimising a whistleblower. Read more... |
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