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June 06, 2024
Solicitor Wins Worker Status In Unfair Dismissal Claim
An employment judge has ruled that a consultant solicitor working on "flexible terms" for a U.K. law firm counts as a worker, rather than being self-employed, in her unfair dismissal claim against the firm.
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June 06, 2024
Pension Funding Levels 'Stable' Ahead Of Looming Election
The political party that wins the July 4 general election will is likely to operate within an environment of stable funding for retirement savings plans, a consultancy said Thursday, as it highlighted the "relatively" consistent levels of funding in the past year.
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June 06, 2024
Imam Wins £20K From Mosque Over Religious Harassment
A mosque in northern England must pay its former Sunni imam £20,000 ($25,570) after a tribunal ruled members of the place of worship accused him of following the beliefs of a rival branch of Islam, which left him with no choice but to quit.
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June 06, 2024
Rwanda Plan Forces Civil Servants To Break Law, Union Says
Civil servants will be forced to violate international human rights law and their workplace code of conduct if the government requires them to process deportation flights to Rwanda against Strasbourg's rulings, a trade union argued at a London court on Thursday.
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June 06, 2024
HMRC Harassed Protesting Staffer With Relocation Ultimatum
HM Revenue and Customs harassed an employee based on her race by asking her to withdraw a discrimination grievance in return for making her transfer to a new office permanent, a tribunal has ruled.
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June 06, 2024
Labour Drops Antisemitism Report Leak Claim On Ex-Staffers
The Labour Party dropped on Thursday its legal claims against five former employees who it said conspired to leak a damning report on how its internal disciplinary body mishandled allegations of antisemitism and undermined its leader at the time, Jeremy Corbyn.
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June 05, 2024
Scottish Defenders Boycott Abuse Cases As Pay Talks Stall
Criminal defense lawyers in Scotland have restarted their boycott of domestic abuse cases after talks with the Scottish government over legal aid reform broke down.
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June 05, 2024
Climate Risk Must Form Part Of Trustee Role
A quarter of pension scheme trustees want a new interpretation of their fiduciary duties to allow them to consider climate risk because doing so will help tackle the dangers posed by a changing environment, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP said Wednesday.
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June 05, 2024
Slater And Gordon Fight Ex-Analyst's Redundancy Appeal
Slater and Gordon LLP challenged on Wednesday an appeal by a former costs analyst, who claims that he was made redundant because he was mentally unwell and wrongly deprived of most of a £20,000 ($25,500) bonus.
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June 05, 2024
Labour's Pension Tax Plans Backed By Fiscal Research Body
An influential economics think tank has backed plans by the Labour Party to reintroduce the lifetime allowance, arguing that there should be a cap on the tax-free accumulation of pensions wealth.
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June 05, 2024
Carer Wins £41K After Losing Job Over Racism Complaints
A care worker has won £40,700 ($52,000) in damages after convincing a tribunal that his employer unfairly fired him following a complaint that bosses treated ethnic minorities less favorably in the workplace.
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June 05, 2024
EU Financial Watchdogs Team Up With Cybersecurity Agency
The three financial regulators of the European Union signed an agreement with the EU cybersecurity agency on Wednesday to join forces to protect the pensions, markets and banking sectors in the bloc from cyberattacks and similar risks.
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June 04, 2024
Dancers Target Strip Club Over Wages And Worker Status
A group of strip club dancers are pursuing a legal case over "appalling" working conditions at SophistiCats Soho, which included being fined £50 for arriving a little late or using toilets at "inappropriate" times.
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June 04, 2024
Royal Navy Must Face Transgender Reservist's Bias Claim
A tribunal has ruled that a transgender Royal Navy reservist can forge ahead with his harassment claim against the Ministry of Defence, finding that he had followed procedure for lodging a complaint with the defense body.
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June 04, 2024
Virgin Atlantic Must Unredact Docs Over COVID Redundancy
Virgin Atlantic Airways must hand over unredacted documents relating to a pandemic-era redundancy exercise after an appellate judge ruled that it was "overwhelmingly" proportionate to allow pilots suing the airline to view them.
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June 04, 2024
IT Review Would Be Disclosed To Court, Post Office Warned
An internal Post Office report warned that any independent review of the faulty IT system used to prosecute innocent people would have to be disclosed in court, according to documents disclosed to the inquiry into the scandal on Tuesday.
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June 04, 2024
Mediator Loses Bias Claim Over Disbelief In Structural Racism
A mediator has lost his case that he faced harassment and discrimination over his opposition to critical race theory, as an employment tribunal ruled that removing his controversial online posts was justified to "avoid disruption and promote a harmonious workplace."
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June 04, 2024
Nearly A Third Of Over 55s Dipping Into Pensions Early
Almost three in 10 retirees over the age of 55 have said they had withdrawn money from their pension before retirement as savers continue to feel squeezed by rising living costs, Just Group said Tuesday.
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June 03, 2024
Labaton Keller Opens 1st Office Outside US In London
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP said Monday it has opened its first office outside the U.S. in London, as the firm looks to expand its services to the U.K. and the rest of Europe.
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June 03, 2024
Labour Party Beats Rejected Candidate's Discrimination Case
A rejected Labour candidate cannot sue the political party for disability discrimination because his pact allowing him to run for office was not an employment contract, a tribunal has ruled.
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June 03, 2024
Barrister Loses Disability Bias Case Against Chambers Head
A barrister who accused the head of an English criminal chambers of bullying in claims for disability discrimination cannot sue after a judge ruled he was not disabled and therefore has no basis for bringing his case.
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June 03, 2024
UK Voters Want Pension Reform In Election Manifestos
Three in four workers with a defined contribution pension are more likely to vote for a political party that reforms workplace pensions, research from a retirement savings company shows.
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June 03, 2024
Pension Funding Boosted By Fall In Life Expectancy
A large portion of the highest level of funding surpluses recorded by pension plans in 2023 was caused by a decline in life expectancy in Britain, a consultancy said Monday, as the sector continues to wrestle with the uncertain impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 03, 2024
Tesco Can't Delay Equal Pay Dispute With Disclosure Protests
Tesco cannot block two orders requiring disclosure in its continuing equal pay litigation with more than 47,000 claimants, an appeals tribunal has ruled, as it accused the retail chain of concocting a "recipe for delay."
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June 03, 2024
Director Fined For Withholding Info From Pensions Regulator
The director of a shooting range has been ordered by a crown court to pay a total of £15,000 ($19,000) for withholding information from The Pensions Regulator as it investigated his company, the watchdog has said.
Expert Analysis
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A New Compliance Challenge For Cos. Doing Business In UK
On the heels of the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010 — a close copy of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — the United Kingdom has now taken cues from another novel U.S. enactment, this time the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, and delivered its own disclosure regime on the doorsteps of the international business world, say attorneys with Perkins Coie LLP.
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UK-Based LLP Partners Now Enjoy More Protections
The crux of the debate in Bates van Winklehof v. Clyde & Co LLP was whether a partner could be considered a “worker” under U.K. law. The U.K. Supreme Court's holding will have potentially wide-reaching implications for LLPs with U.K.-based partners, say Katie Clark and Sharon Tan of McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
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Mapping The Revised UK Takeover Landscape
The key impact of recent and impending changes to the U.K. Takeover Code for private equity bidders is that a bidder is now required to disclose its plans for employer contributions to the target’s defined benefit pension schemes, including the current arrangements for funding any scheme deficit, say attorneys with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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Religious Freedom In The Workplace: UK Edition
Recently, four U.K. cases concerning whether each employee had been discriminated against on the grounds of religion culminated in the European Court of Human Rights' decision in Eweida and Others v. the United Kingdom. As demonstrated by these cases, it appears that aims such as the protection of other human rights carry more weight than projecting a certain corporate image, say attorneys with Latham & Watkins LLP.
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4 Big Changes Coming To UK Private Antitrust Enforcement
The U.K. government recently published its response to its consultation on private actions in competition law. If implemented, the proposals to introduce opt-out collective actions and settlement procedures for businesses and consumers as well as a fast-track process are likely to increase significantly the number of claims started in the U.K., say attorneys with Allen & Overy LLP.
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10 Tips For An Effective Cross-Border Investigation
Multinational employers may find themselves investigating alleged wrongdoing that occurred in more than one nation, and U.S.-based lawyers and human resources executives often coordinate and directly carry out investigations overseas. But before boarding an international flight to interview witnesses or to review personnel files, in-house counsel and HR executives need to understand that the rules are different when it comes to conducting international investigations, says Philip Berkowitz of Littler Mendelson PC.
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Choice-Of-Law Clauses: Drawbacks For Employers
The problem with an employment context choice-of-law clause is that it implicates tougher employment laws of the selected jurisdiction without blocking the mandatory application of tougher employment protection laws. The multinational employer now has to comply with two sets of employment protection laws, rather than just one, says Donald Dowling of White & Case LLP.
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Spotlight On UK's Changing Employment Laws
The U.K. government recently announced that it is consulting on proposals, which, if implemented, will have a significant impact on the U.K. workplace and employment litigation. With these, plus other ongoing bills, proposals, reviews and consultations, it appears that employer-friendly legislation is on the horizon for 2013, says Suzanne Horne of Paul Hastings LLP.
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Determining Whose Laws Protect Border-Crossing Employees
Probably the most common question in international employment law practice is, "which countries’ employment laws protect border-crossing employees such as expatriates and mobile workers?" This question is relevant when arranging any mobile job, expatriate posting or “secondment,” and it becomes vital when a multinational needs to dismiss border‑crossing staff, says Donald Dowling or White & case LLP
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UK Reforms: A New Era In Criminal Cartel Enforcement?
A law before U.K. Parliament, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, aims to achieve "strong, sustainable and balanced growth" through wide-ranging measures that seek to improve several areas of the law. In particular, the proposed competition law reforms represent a major re-casting of the U.K. regime, say Becket McGrath and Trupti Reddy of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP.
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Recent Developments In German Competition Law
The first half of 2012 saw again significant enforcement activity at the German Federal Cartel Office. The authority prohibited two mergers, imposed fines on three cartels, installed an anonymous whistleblower system, and started the second phase of its food sector inquiry, say Silvio Cappellari and Maria Held of Arnold & Porter LLP.
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Weighing UK Pensions Regulator's Moral Hazard Powers
The question of whether the U.K. Pension Regulator's moral hazard powers are enforceable outside the U.K. arose first in the Sea Containers case in 2008 and, more recently, in the cases of the Nortel Networks’ U.K. DB Scheme and the Great Lakes DB Scheme. The differing approach of the Pension Regulator, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the Canadian courts in each of these cases is noteworthy, say Sian Robertson of Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP and David Cleary of Greenberg Traurig LLP.
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Extra-Territorial Application Of The Automatic Stay
A recent decision in the Nortel Networks Chapter 11 proceedings demonstrates the difficulty of an expansive approach to U.S. bankruptcy court jurisdiction and calls into question the ability of claimholders to participate in statutorily mandated foreign proceedings without risking loss of their claims and potential sanctions in the U.S. bankruptcy court, say Steven R. Gross, Katherine Ashton and Shannon Rebholz of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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Effective Management Of UK Employee Exits
This article aims to explain in general terms the protections that apply to employees in the United Kingdom and the choices available to an employer in relation to possible employee terminations — along with the relative risk and costs when deciding how to terminate, says Bettina Bender of CM Murray LLP.
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Trends For Encouraging Employee Whistleblowing
There appears to be little doubt that there is an emerging international consensus that whistleblowing is a legitimate tool for dealing with economic fraud and should be encouraged as one way of stemming such wrongdoing, say Eric A. Savage and Anita S. Vadgama of Littler Mendelson PC.