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June 26, 2024
Poultry Biz Wins Appeal Over Workers' Travel Time Pay
An appellate judge ruled Wednesday that a poultry company does not have to pay its workers for the time they spent traveling to and from poultry farms, overturning a lower tribunal's ruling in favor of the U.K.'s tax authority.
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June 26, 2024
Workers Can Appeal Dyson Forced Labor Case In Malaysia
Migrant workers in Malaysia have won their bid for a second chance to convince the courts that their allegations of forced labor and mistreatment by their employer, ATA Industrial, a large publicly listed Malaysian manufacturer, should be heard in the U.K., the law firm representing them said Wednesday.
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June 26, 2024
Plant Fitter Revives Harassment Case Against Transport Org
A staffer has revived a disability harassment case against a transport operator after convincing an appeals tribunal that an earlier judge wrongly concluded that he had effectively withdrawn his claim after failing to pay a deposit to keep the case alive.
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June 26, 2024
Eversheds Steers £33M Pension Deal For Metal Recycling Co.
A global scrap metal company has offloaded £33 million ($42 million) of its U.K. staff pension liabilities to insurer Aviva PLC, advisers said Wednesday, in a deal steered by Eversheds Sutherland.
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June 25, 2024
Doctor Loses Appeal In NHS Work Transfer Claim
An appellate panel threw out a bid Tuesday by a British doctors union and a GP to overturn a ruling that the GP's dismissal was not covered by work transfer regulations during the restructuring of his NHS employer.
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June 25, 2024
NHS Administrator With Long COVID Loses Harassment Case
A National Health Service trust provided reasonable adjustments for a senior administrator suffering from long-term COVID-19 and did not harass him for his disability when he was taking breaks, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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June 25, 2024
Royal Mail Loses Unfair Dismissal Claim Over Grievance Delay
Royal Mail Group forced a postman to resign after failing to properly address his complaints over a rejected job application while he was off sick with stress, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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June 25, 2024
BBC Fights For Ability To Cut Costs Of £20B Pension Scheme
The British Broadcasting Corporation launched an appeal Tuesday in a case that will decide whether it is able to reduce future benefits for members of its £19.8 billion ($25 billion) pension scheme.
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June 25, 2024
Disability Care May Leave Parents' Pension Funds Short
Employers must create more flexible workplace cultures to ensure parents can balance caring and working after research shows that those with disabled children could be worse off in retirement because of caring responsibilities, People's Partnership said Tuesday.
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June 24, 2024
High Court Pay Not For Temp Judges, Master Of The Rolls Says
The master of the rolls told an employment tribunal Monday that permanent High Court judges are in a different category to those who occasionally take on High Court duties, weighing in on a claim brought by judges who say they should be paid the same wages as permanent judges when they periodically sit at the High Court.
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June 24, 2024
Club Found Liable For Then-Secretary's 'Abusive' Acts
Two bar staff were forced to resign from a members club in Durham after a now-former club secretary made comments that mocked one's disabilities and sexualized the other, an employment tribunal has ruled, finding the club liable.
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June 24, 2024
CEO Can Sue Nickel Mining Co. In UK Over 'Ambiguous' Firing
An employment tribunal has ruled that the former CEO of a Zambian mining company can pursue his unfair dismissal claim in the U.K. after concluding that his contract was subject to English law.
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June 24, 2024
Retired Judges Lose Appeal In Pension Row With MoJ
An appeals tribunal ruled Monday that the Ministry of Justice did not discriminate against three judges when it switched their pension schemes, ruling that their new judicial posts — rather than their part-time worker status — caused the change.
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June 24, 2024
Trade Union Can Sue Ex-Officer For Libel
A trade union can bring its libel claim against a former union officer who was ousted from his position at the organization following bullying accusations, a London judge has ruled.
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June 24, 2024
Burges Salmon Steers £25M Pension Deal For Travel Co.
Legal & General will take on £25 million ($31.7 million) worth of pension liabilities from a scheme sponsored by travel company TUI in a deal steered by Burges Salmon LLP, advisers on the transaction said Monday.
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June 21, 2024
Surveyor Wins £110K After Director's Unfounded Fraud Report
A tribunal has ordered a surveyors company and two of its directors to pay a former trainee almost £110,000 ($139,000) after ruling that she was subject to harassment relating to her sex and victimization.
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June 21, 2024
British Council Wins Fight To Nix Dubai Employee's Claim
The British Council has won its appeal against a decision that found a human resources manager based in Dubai could sue her employer in a U.K. employment tribunal, with the appeals tribunal finding that her argument that she would not get a fair trial in the UAE failed.
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June 21, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen JD Wetherspoon sue a Welsh pub over its name in the Intellectual Property Court, ex-professional boxer Amir Khan and his wife file libel action against an influencer, the Performing Right Society hit with a competition claim over music licensing, and Manolete Partners bring action against the directors of a bust investment firm. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 21, 2024
SRA Bars Case Handler Who Sent Client Money To Third Party
A former case handler has been barred from working at law firms after she admitted that she had deliberately transferred client money to an unconnected third party without taking instructions, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Friday.
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June 21, 2024
Apple Wrong To Fire Worker For COVID Joke, Tribunal Rules
Apple wrongly fired an employee for making racial comments in the workplace, despite not having offended anyone, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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June 21, 2024
Axiom Stays £65M Action As Directors Claim Bankruptcy
A London judge ruled on Friday that shuttered firm Axiom Ince can stay its almost £65 million ($82 million) claim against its ex-director and several of his companies for allegedly misappropriating client funds, saying the main defendant has been declared bankrupt.
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June 20, 2024
Pensioners Still Taxed With 'Triple Lock Plus,' LCP Says
The ruling Conservative Party's pledge to add a tax break to the anti-inflation "triple lock" on pensions would still mean that 2.5 million U.K. pensioners will be taxed, consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock LLP said Thursday.
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June 20, 2024
Academic Revives Sex Bias Claim Over Absences
A university lecturer has won his bid to revive his claim he was discriminated against as a man after an appellate tribunal found an initial ruling failed to properly identify his complaints.
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June 20, 2024
Ex-Racecourse Assoc. Worker Can Revive Maternity Bias Case
An accountant won her bid on Thursday to revive her pregnancy discrimination case, with an appeals panel saying an employment tribunal failed to consider whether her redundancy was legitimate or, as she claimed, the result of maternity discrimination.
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June 20, 2024
Seven Law Firms Recognized For Work On Gender Equality
Business in the Community named seven law firms on Thursday in an updated list of the 50 top employers for gender equality in the U.K., with Linklaters LLP the sole representative of the Magic Circle.