Employment UK

October 31, 2024
Marketing Manager Loses Bias Case Over No-Notice Firing

A marketing manager has lost her race and sex discrimination claims against business consulting firm CACI Ltd., with a tribunal ruling that she was not fired because she was Black or a woman.
October 31, 2024
Reality TV Star Sacked For Going AWOL Loses Claim

A former EE store manager who appeared on a Channel 4 reality dating show has lost his unfair dismissal claim after a tribunal found he breached EE's leave policy by taking a week off for filming without his manager's permission.
October 31, 2024
HCR Steers £7M Pension Deal For Engineering Co.

Research equipment maker Armfield Ltd. has offloaded £7 million ($9 million) of pension liabilities to insurer Just Group PLC, an adviser said Thursday, in a deal guided by HCR Hewitson.
October 31, 2024
Belkin Execs Dodge Injunction In UPC Clash With Philips

Belkin has paused a Unified Patent Court injunction tying its directors' hands amid a ruling that it infringed a Philips wireless charging patent, proving that the order wrongly pinned responsibility on its executives.
October 31, 2024
Reeves To Face MPs As Budget Enters Approval Process

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to be grilled by senior MPs on Nov. 6 after she presented the Labour government's first Budget for 14 years, which features a £40 billion ($52 billion) tax package that has raised concerns of new pressure on businesses and retirement savers.
October 31, 2024
Gov't Transfers £1.5B To Former Miners' Pension Scheme

The government unveiled on Thursday a transfer of £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) to pensions belonging to 112,000 former mine workers, resulting in a 32% increase in their annual pension payouts and undoing an "historic injustice."
October 30, 2024
What Employers Should Know About The Budget

A hike in employers' National Insurance contributions announced in Wednesday's Budget is forecast to lower workers' wages — and businesses have warned that this will dampen hiring and prompt employers to turn to AI. Here Law360 looks at what employers need to know about Labour's first Budget in 14 years.
October 30, 2024
MoJ Gets £1.9B Funding Boost In First Labour Budget

The Labour government announced an additional £1.9 billion ($2.47 billion) funding for the Ministry of Justice in its first Budget statement on Wednesday, coupled with millions of pounds more for criminal prosecutors and fraud investigators.
October 30, 2024
Pension Pros Say Shutting Inheritance Tax Loophole Overdue

Retirement industry professionals said Wednesday that the budget announcement by the U.K. government that it would remove a loophole that allowed the transfer of more than £1 million ($1.3 million) of inherited pension wealth without paying inheritance tax was overdue.
October 30, 2024
Disabled Barclays Worker Wins Harassment Claim

An employment judge has upheld two complaints by a former Barclays employee who said she was prevented from doing her job because of her painful bone condition, as the tribunal that agreed her manager's comments amounted to harassment.
October 30, 2024
Mortgage Adviser Not Unfairly Sacked Over Fraud Fears

A mortgage adviser who was sacked over concerns that he might have committed fraud by providing false information to lenders and insurers has lost his claim of unfair dismissal, as a tribunal ruled that his employer's decision to fire him was reasonable.
October 30, 2024
Labour Gov't Unveils £40B Tax Boost In First Budget

A £40 billion ($52 billion) tax package unveiled on Wednesday by Britain's new Labour government targets business and investors and aims to plug fiscal gaps with plans including higher levies on payrolls and capital gains.
October 29, 2024
Carer Refused Leave To Self-Isolate During COVID Wins £22K

A disabled individual must pay £22,064 ($28,665) for firing a personal carer who left her without assistance after discovering that she might be infected with COVID-19, an employment tribunal has ruled.
October 29, 2024
UK Minimum Wage To Rise By 6.7%, Treasury Says

Three million British workers are due to receive a pay rise as Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a 6.7% increase to the nation's minimum wage on Tuesday.
October 29, 2024
Tribunal Finds 'Tight Trousers' Comment Not Sex Harassment

A National Health Service manager did not sexually harass a staffer by saying he was wearing "tight trousers" amid other managers' concerns over his attire's suitability for the office, a tribunal held in a ruling released Tuesday.
October 29, 2024
SPG Steers £18M Buy-In Pension Deal For Housebuilder

Housebuilder St Modwen Properties Ltd. has offloaded £18 million ($23.4 million) of its pension liabilities with Just Group PLC, the insurer said Tuesday, in a transaction guided by Squire Patton Boggs LLP.
October 29, 2024
CMS Guides £1.1B Pension Deal For Deutsche Bank Unit

A subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG has offloaded £1.1 billion ($1.4 billion) of its pension liabilities with Legal & General Assurance Society, the insurer said Tuesday, in a transaction led by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP and DLA Piper.
October 29, 2024
Stone Cos. Face Claim Over Worker's Terminal Lung Disease

A former stone worker who is in hospital with a terminal lung condition has begun legal action against his former employers, alleging that he developed the disease after inhaling dust while cutting quartz for worktops in unsafe working conditions.
October 29, 2024
NHS Beats Mother's Bias Claim Over Remote Working Policy

A National Health Service trust in London did not discriminate against a female member of staff by refusing her request to work remotely full-time to care for her young child, a tribunal has ruled.
October 28, 2024
Boxing Ref Can't Revive Bias Case Over Conflict Of Interest

An employment judge has rejected claims that his schoolboy friendship with a boxer led him to favor the sports governing body facing claims of discrimination from a Black referee.
October 28, 2024
Labour Budget Expected To Target Taxes At Biz, Investors

The U.K. government is set to unveil its budget statement Wednesday after months of hinting at higher taxes, and experts say businesses and investors are bracing to bear the brunt of the possible tax changes, such as through increases to capital gains and payroll taxes.
October 28, 2024
Actors' Union Sues To Cap Casting Site's Fees

Actors' union Equity has hit casting agency Spotlight with a High Court claim, alleging it is charging actors unfair subscription rates to appear in its directory.
October 28, 2024
Wise Boss Hit With FCA Fine For Not Disclosing Tax Penalty

The finance regulator said on Monday that it has fined the chief executive of a money transfer company £350,000 ($454,500) for his failure to tell the watchdog he had been penalized by HM Revenues and Customs for not paying his taxes.
October 28, 2024
Gov't Urged To Clarify Implications Of Major Pensions Case

The U.K. government must clarify the scope of new requirements on retirement savings plans following a landmark Court of Appeal ruling in July, a trade body has warned, after members registered a surge in queries from pension holders.
October 28, 2024
Linklaters Steers Former Aviva Unit's £1.3B Pension Deal

Insurance giant Aviva said Monday that it has completed a £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) acquisition of a pension scheme of one of its former subsidiaries in a deal guided by Linklaters LLP, a move it said would secure benefits for approximately 19,000 members.

Expert Analysis

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.
U.S. Incentives, EU Employees And Conflicts Of Law

U.S. employers frequently offer senior employees who are based overseas the opportunity to participate in incentive and bonus arrangements that contain provisions protecting the employer’s interests. Any doubt concerning the enforceability of such provisions in the EU now appears to have been resolved in the employees’ favor, say Christopher K. Walter and Mark M. Poerio of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP.