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April 11, 2024
NHS Assistant With Lung Condition Wins COVID Bias Claim
An NHS trust in England forced a hospital worker with a chronic lung condition to quit her job by refusing to let her work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 11, 2024
Failure To Address Group Chat Jokes Pushed Worker To Quit
Blackpool Council forced an employee to resign after it failed to formally investigate her complaints about a "deluge" of inappropriate WhatsApp group messages that made her view the workplace as hostile, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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April 11, 2024
Squire Patton Advises Broadstone Buy Of Credit Risk Co.
Broadstone said on Thursday it had acquired credit risk company Vestigo Partners Ltd., in a deal steered by Squire Patton Boggs and Harrison Clark Rickerbys.
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April 11, 2024
Solicitor Struck Off For Misleading Client Over PI Claim
A former Slater and Gordon personal injury lawyer who admitted that he misled a client about the status of her claim for more than 15 years was struck off by a tribunal on Thursday.
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April 11, 2024
Pension Schemes Moving Toward Net Zero, Watchdog Says
Britain's pensions watchdog said in a review published Thursday that retirement savings schemes have moved closer to achieving net-zero emissions standards in their portfolios by updating investment strategies and boosting allocations to low-carbon funds.
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April 11, 2024
Squire Patton Steers £130M Mitsubishi Pension Deal
Insurer Just Group said Thursday it has signed off on a £130 million ($163 million) buy-in transaction for a scheme sponsored by Mitsubishi Chemical UK Ltd. in a deal guided by Squire Patton Boggs LLP.
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April 10, 2024
No Merit To Autonomy Whistleblower Claims, Auditor Says
A Deloitte partner testifying in a California criminal trial over claims that former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch and finance director Stephen Chamberlain duped HP into buying the British tech company for $11.7 billion said Wednesday that auditors concluded that whistleblower allegations by a finance department executive were meritless.
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April 10, 2024
Former Judge Says Post Office Prosecutions Made No Sense
A former senior judge who oversaw a mediation scheme between the Post Office and people it wrongly prosecuted based on faulty IT data said the organization's case "didn't make sense," as he gave evidence to the inquiry into the scandal on Wednesday.
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April 10, 2024
Author 'Blacklisted' For Anti-Trans Views Loses Status Appeal
An author whose contract was canceled after she expressed anti-transgender views online cannot revive her discrimination case, as an appeals court dismissed her claim that she was legally employed by her publisher.
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April 10, 2024
Insurer Aviva Expands Bulk Purchase Pilot For Small Pensions
Insurance giant Aviva said Wednesday it has launched a streamlined bulk purchase annuity service to support smaller pension schemes with assets of less than £100 million ($126 million) to de-risk their plans.
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April 10, 2024
Pensions Watchdog Spurs Trustees On Climate Transition
The Pensions Regulator on Wednesday urged trustees to consider official guidance for transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero emissions standards.
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April 10, 2024
Mishcon Apprentice Showed 'Egregious Disregard' To Tribunal
An employment judge has dismissed a disability discrimination claim brought against Mishcon de Reya LLP by a former solicitor-apprentice at the firm after she missed the tribunal hearing to go on a trip abroad for her birthday.
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April 10, 2024
Chelsea FC Unfairly Booted Staffer Amid Assault 'Cover-Up'
Chelsea Football Club unfairly fired a groundsman after he appeared to send 1,600 anonymous emails claiming the club covered up a colleague's alleged assault of the groundsman, a tribunal has held, but it declined to award him damages after ruling he was behind the emails.
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April 10, 2024
Compensation For Poor Pensions Advice At Record Low
Compensation for retirement savers who were wrongly advised to transfer out of their defined benefit pension has hit a record low, a consultancy said on Wednesday.
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April 10, 2024
Lifeboat Fund Opens Probe Into British Steel Pension Adviser
The compensation program for financial services said it has opened an investigation into an advice firm in connection with the British Steel Pension Scheme scandal.
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April 09, 2024
'You're Going To Lose These People,' Judge Tells Lynch Atty
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Tuesday chided a Steptoe partner representing former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch in his criminal fraud jury trial, saying that his hourslong questioning of a Deloitte partner shouldn't go on much longer, or "you're going to lose these people."
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April 09, 2024
NHS Failed In Adjusting Schedule For Nurse With Crohn's
Scotland's phone healthcare service has been ordered by a Glasgow tribunal to pay £22,277 in compensation to a nurse for failing to make reasonable adjustments for her Crohn's disease by allowing her to work only night shifts.
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April 09, 2024
Ex-Employee Says Post Office Fought Exoneration Efforts
A former subpostmaster who led a fight to exonerate innocent people prosecuted by the Post Office and wrongly convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting — based on faulty IT data — said the organization was determined to "protect the brand at all costs," as the inquiry into the scandal resumed Tuesday.
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April 09, 2024
Pension Scheme End-Game Options Rising, Consultancy Says
A rise in funding means U.K pension schemes have more end-game options, consultancy Broadstone said Tuesday, as the aggregate surplus of thousands of defined benefit schemes increased to £455.5 billion ($578.4 billion) by the end of March.
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April 09, 2024
Worker Sacked For Posting Facebook Meme Wins £15K
A tribunal has awarded an employee of a lighting manufacturer almost £15,000 ($19,000) after concluding that her boss unfairly sacked her for re-posting a work-related meme on Facebook.
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April 09, 2024
Insurance Director Denies Inducing Employees' Defection
The director of an insurance startup incubator has denied allegations that he induced a managing general underwriter's employees to violate their duties when they left to found a new business, saying he believed the establishment of the new company was lawful.
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April 09, 2024
Gov't Urged To Drop Plans For UK Pension Consolidator
The government should abandon plans to transform the Pension Protection Fund into a state-backed consolidator of smaller retirement plans, a consultancy has warned.
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April 09, 2024
Gov't Urged To Ban Cash Incentives For Pension Switching
The government should ban pension providers from offering cash incentives for savers to switch plans because the practice encourages people to ignore the "fine print" and move over to a worse option, new research by a provider of retirement savings plans suggests.
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April 08, 2024
Ex-Autonomy Exec Says Boss's Invoice Ask Caused Concern
A former Autonomy finance employee took the stand Monday in the criminal fraud trial of ex-CEO Michael Lynch and finance director Stephen Chamberlain, telling a California federal jury that he was "not comfortable" with one of Chamberlain's invoice requests and was sacked after raising concerns about accounting irregularities.
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April 08, 2024
Council CEO Unlawfully Warned Against Strike, Tribunal Rules
A local council boss violated worker protection laws when he sent a "highly unusual" email to staff, an employment tribunal has ruled, concluding it was intended to convince them not to vote in favor of an impending strike.
Expert Analysis
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What Growing Focus On ESG Means For Insurers
As the world pays steadily more attention to environmental, social and governance issues, insurers and reinsurers will need to integrate ESG risks into their underwriting and compliance efforts, but doing so will help attract consumers and achieve positive investment returns, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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5 Ways To Address Heightened Forced Labor Compliance Risk
In response to ever-increasing enforcement efforts targeting forced labor, companies can leverage available resources to assess conditions in their supply chains and avoid unintended imports and exports with entities known for human rights violations, say Joyce Rodriguez and Francesca Guerrero at Thompson Hine.
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UK Whistleblowing Laws May Be Ripe For Reform
COVID-19 has reignited calls to expand U.K. whistleblowing laws, with many advocating for enhanced reporting protections and independent oversight of cases, says Pia Sanchez at CM Murray.
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G4S Deferral Agreement Illustrates SFO's Enforcement Focus
The Serious Fraud Office’s recent deferred prosecution agreement with multinational security services company G4S suggests the agency’s approach to compliance, program remediation and corporate renewal is evolving to favor parent company involvement and the appointment of independent compliance monitors, say Chris Roberts and James Ford at Mayer Brown.
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Opinion
Time To Fix Human Rights Abuses In US Gov't Supply Chains
The U.S. government buys goods made in global supply chains where human and labor rights violations are commonplace, so to drive better rights compliance among contractors, it should adopt six key reforms to the federal procurement process, says Isabelle Glimcher at the New York University Stern School of Business.
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Opinion
Reflections On The UK Bribery Act 10 Years On
While the U.K. Bribery Act has been positive overall, regulators should seek urgent reform to better enable the investigation and prosecution of companies and individuals for economic crimes, especially in cases directly harming people and the environment, says Chris Phillips at Alvarez & Marsal.
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Human Rights Are Becoming A Compliance Issue
A recent commitment from the European Union's commissioner for justice to introduce rules for mandatory corporate human rights due diligence next year may signal the arrival of this issue as a global business imperative, making it as fundamental as anti-corruption diligence, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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5 Steps For Keeping Supply Chains Free Of Uighur Slavery
In light of a March report identifying 83 global brands suspected of supply chain links to forced labor of Uighurs — an ethnic minority long targeted by the Chinese government — companies should adopt certain procedures to identify red flags in their own supply chains, say Benjamin Britz and Rayhan Asat at Hughes Hubbard.
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Perspectives
Addressing Modern Slavery Inside And Outside The UK
As the problem of modern slavery persists, U.K. companies must take a broad approach when rooting out slave labor in their supply chains, and should not ignore the risk posed by suppliers within the U.K., says Maria Theodoulou of Stokoe.
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UK Antitrust Watchdog Proposals Would Bolster Enforcement
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority's proposals for reshaping competition enforcement and consumer protection would shift the historical balance in U.K. competition policy, increasing regulatory burden on companies while weakening judicial scrutiny of CMA actions, says Bill Batchelor of Skadden.
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UK's New 'Name And Shame' Approach To Anti-Trafficking
There has been considerable anxiety and speculation from companies over the annual transparency statement required by the U.K. Modern Slavery Act, but a recent tender announcement from the U.K. Home Office provides key insights into what to expect, say attorneys with Perkins Coie.
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A Victory For Legal Privilege In Cross-Border Investigations
The U.K. Court of Appeal's recent decision in Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources is a substantial step toward confirming the application of legal privilege in internal investigations, and has significantly reduced the divergence in U.K. and U.S. privilege law, say attorneys with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP.
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Is It Time To Prosecute UK Cos. For Human Rights Violations?
The idea of holding companies criminally liable for human rights abuses committed overseas has gained traction over the past decade. Though the U.K. government has made it clear that it has no immediate plans for further legislation in this area, calls for corporate criminal liability are only likely to get louder, say Andrew Smith and Alice Lepeuple of Corker Binning.
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UK Employment Law Risks In Cross-Border M&A
U.K. employment law has developed in myriad ways and continues to do so. The acquisition of U.K.-based companies or assets will therefore often give rise to employment law considerations that are unfamiliar to U.S. buyers, says Richard Moore of Lewis Silkin LLP.
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4 Questions About Whistleblowing In The UK And Beyond
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement of its biggest-ever Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, Chris Warren-Smith of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP discusses whistleblowing in financial service industries in different jurisdictions with other Morgan Lewis attorneys based all around the world.