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June 11, 2024
Surgeon Fights To Overturn Loss In Race Discrimination Case
A surgeon urged the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to revive his race discrimination claim against the medical profession's regulator, arguing that an appellate tribunal was wrong to find that an investigation into him was not racially motivated.
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June 11, 2024
Deutsche Bank Trader Fights For Compensation 'Assurances'
Deutsche Bank executives gave "assurances" about compensation that the lender must now abide by, a former trader told the High Court in London on Tuesday as she sued for breach of contract.
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June 11, 2024
Tesco Loses Race Bias Claim Over Vibrator Joke Gift
Tesco discriminated against a British Pakistani manager by rushing through a misconduct investigation after the manager gave a vibrator as a secret Santa gift and other allegedly harassing incidents, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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June 11, 2024
NHS Board Discriminated Against 'Antivaxxer' Sonographer
A National Health Service board harassed a sonographer and discriminated against her after her inability to wear a face mask during the COVID pandemic led bosses to label her an "antivaxxer," a tribunal has ruled.
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June 11, 2024
Industry Groups Want Post-Election Pensions Review
The next government must urgently carry out a review of pension savings adequacy soon after taking power in order to stave off a looming retirement crisis, a coalition of industry bodies and experts warned.
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June 11, 2024
Sunak Pledges Further Tax Cuts In Election Manifesto
Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday that his Conservative Party would establish a tax system that "rewards work" by slashing a range of levies if it wins the general election, including another cut in the national payroll tax by 2027.
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June 11, 2024
IBM Worker Off Sick For 10 Years Loses Pay-Rise Appeal
A disabled IBM worker has lost his appeal in a claim that he was entitled to a pay rise because he remained employed by the global technology company during his decade-long medical retirement, an appellate tribunal has ruled.
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June 10, 2024
Outsourcer Gets Partial Win In Worker COVID Leave Appeal
A civil enforcement outsourcer got a second shot at defeating claims that it discriminated against a Polish worker by sanctioning him for overstaying his leave during the pandemic, an Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.
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June 10, 2024
Man Gets 1 Year For Manslaughter Of Ex-Boss In 2006 Attack
An Albanian man was sentenced to a year in prison Monday for killing his former boss, after the Crown Prosecution Service linked the victim's life-altering head injuries from an attack nearly two decades ago to his death in 2017.
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June 10, 2024
Union Federation Botched Worker Investigation, Tribunal Says
A tribunal has upheld the unfair dismissal claims of two trade unionists who were accused of misconduct, ruling there was not enough evidence against the pair in light of their employer's poor investigation against them.
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June 10, 2024
Disney Dodges Child Actor's Late Discrimination Claim
Disney avoided facing a child actor's discrimination case after a tribunal ruled that there was no good explanation for her mother waiting 10 months after the deadline to submit the claim on her behalf.
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June 10, 2024
Next Gov't To Face Tough Pension Decisions, IFS Warns
The next government will need to make some urgent decisions on pension reforms to ensure future retirees are protected, an influential think-tank has warned ahead of the July 4 general election.
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June 10, 2024
Lib Dems Vow To Raise Capital Gains Tax For UK's Wealthiest
The U.K.'s third-largest political party vowed on Monday to raise taxes on the country's wealthiest individuals if it wins the next election, in a bid to raise £5 billion ($6.4 billion) for the National Health Service.
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June 10, 2024
Amazon Sold Facial Tech To Russia, Ex-Employee Alleges
A former Amazon worker has alleged that the technology giant sold facial recognition software to a Russian company in violation of U.K. sanctions.
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June 10, 2024
10% Of Early Pension Dippers Regret Withdrawals
Approximately one in 10 retirees aged 55 and older who withdrew money from their pension before retirement said they regretted doing so, a retirement savings company said on Monday.
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June 10, 2024
What Tax Experts Hope To See In Labour's Manifesto
Labour's policy manifesto, expected to be unveiled on Thursday, will be studied by tax lawyers for more detail on the fiscal planning being carried out by the clear favorite to win the general election, including a final word on lifetime pension savings.
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June 07, 2024
Police Officers Win Case For Rest Breaks While On Standby
Humberside police officers won their claim that time on standby counts as working time, entitling them to take daily rest breaks that were previously refused, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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June 07, 2024
Axed Telecom CEO Loses Early Battle In Whistleblower Suit
A former interim chief executive officer at a telecom company has failed for now to get her job back, with a tribunal saying it was unconvinced by her early-stage claim that she was unfairly dismissed for calling out allegedly unlawful business proposals that would breach agreements with HSBC.
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June 07, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen British broadcaster GB News hit with a libel claim by climate activist Dale Vince, MGM take aim at an immersive events company over intellectual property rights to the James Bond franchise, and law firms Stephenson Harwood and Bowen-Morris & Partners tackle a contracts claim by investment adviser Yieldstreet. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 07, 2024
UK Sued Over Plan To Raise Income Threshold For Visa
A campaign group for the families of migrants is suing the British government over plans to raise the income requirement for visas for spouses, partners or family members, arguing that the policy is having a "devastating impact."
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June 07, 2024
Fired NCA Trainee Loses Sex Bias Claim Over Childcare Duty
The National Crime Agency did not discriminate against a former trainee based on his sex by limiting how flexibly he could work in order to look after his two young children, a tribunal has ruled.
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June 07, 2024
'Squeezed Middle' Pension Schemes Urged To Be Flexible
Defined benefit pension schemes with assets between £10 million ($12.7 million) and £250 million are the new "squeezed middle" in the retirement savings market, Hymans Robertson has said, encouraging those plans to remain flexible amid the challenges they face.
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June 07, 2024
30% Of UK Workers Unsure How To Access Pensions
An estimated 30% of British workers are unsure about their retirement options and worry about how to access their savings, according to a study published by TPT Retirement Solutions Ltd.
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June 06, 2024
Post Office Board Missed Clues, Former Chair Tells Inquiry
A former chair of the Post Office Ltd. board told the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal on Thursday that the board did not act on a number of "clues" suggesting that the company was wrongly prosecuting innocent subpostmasters.
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June 06, 2024
Fired Ikea Worker Loses COVID-19 Harassment Claim
An ex-Ikea employee has lost his case that he was unfairly dismissed and harassed over his opposition to COVID-19 safety measures, as an employment tribunal ruled that his beliefs were not challenged, only his behavior.
Expert Analysis
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Revamping Contracts For GDPR: 3 Ways To Prepare
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation requirements — which take effect May 25 — create a substantial hurdle for thousands of companies worldwide and affect millions of vendor contracts, which now need to be reviewed, amended and potentially renegotiated, say Mathew Keshav Lewis and Zachary Foreman of Axiom Law.
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Keys To Corporate Social Responsibility Compliance: Part 1
2018 may be the year that corporate social responsibility compliance becomes a core duty of in-house legal departments. Not only have legal requirements proliferated in recent years, but new disclosure requirements and more regulation are on the horizon, say attorneys with Ropes & Gray LLP.
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A Guide To Anti-Trafficking Compliance For Food Cos.
Despite the 2016 dismissal of federal human rights cases against food companies in California, a similar class action — Tomasella v. Hershey Co. — was recently filed in Massachusetts federal court, and it’s one that companies in the sector should watch closely, says Markus Funk of Perkins Coie LLP.
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Human Rights Benchmarks: A Primer For In-House Counsel
A number of corporate institutions and nongovernmental organizations have partnered together to “benchmark” how peer companies compare to each other in the area of human rights compliance. The reputational damage that these studies can cause should not be underestimated, say Viren Mascarenhas and Kayla Winarsky Green of King & Spalding LLP.
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Basic Human Rights: Whose Job Is Enforcement?
The cases of Jesner v. Arab Bank and Doe v. Cisco Systems pose different legal tests under the Alien Tort Statute. But these decisions could hold major consequences for environmentalists, human rights activists and even individuals who have turned to ATS to go after transnational corporations, says Dan Weissman of LexisNexis.
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Cos. Should Note Guidance From Gov'ts On Human Rights
Recent legislative and courtroom developments in the U.K., the U.S. and further afield may have a significant impact on human rights compliance requirements for companies doing business internationally, say attorneys with Covington & Burlington LLP.
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Preparing For UK Litigation As A US Lawyer
Counsel fees, issue fees, risk of loss and the “additional” cost of a barrister mark significant differences between the U.K. and U.S. legal processes. The good news is that the bond between the U.K. and the U.S. arising out of our common history and law renders retaining and working with U.K. counsel seamless and rewarding, says Richard Reice of Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney LLP.
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Whistleblower Protection: When Private Turns Public
In Chesterton v. Nurmohamed, a U.K. appeals court recently found that disclosing a breach of a worker's contract may satisfy the public interest requirement for whistleblower protection if a sufficiently large number of other workers are affected. This decision may cause some concern for well-known employers, say Emma Vennesson and Katherine Newman of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.
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Uber May Have Met Its Waterloo In Europe
Recent developments in Europe suggest that Uber’s business model — built on its claims that it is a digital platform between consumer and driver, not a transportation company, and that its workers are merely independent contractors, not employees governed by local labor laws — may be approaching collapse on the continent sooner than anticipated, says Thomas Dickerson of Herzfeld & Rubin PC.
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Harmonizing US And UK Workplace Dress Codes
Given recent publicity surrounding workplace dress codes for women in both the U.S. and U.K., it's likely the issue will be subject to greater scrutiny going forward. Companies with an international reach must exercise particular caution when seeking to coordinate workplace dress codes across the business as considerations may differ widely, says Furat Ashraf of Bird & Bird.
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Top 5 Business And Human Rights Concerns For Companies To Monitor
Businesses are being bombarded with information about their responsibilities toward global human rights and other nonfinancial efforts. According to Covington & Burling LLP attorneys Christopher Walter and Hannah Edmonds, U.K. businesses should be actively monitoring five key developments.
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FCA's Work In Progress: Individual Accountability
In the case of the U.K. accountability regime, the sea change seems to have been more about the Financial Conduct Authority sending a message to firms, leaders and the public that things would be different — rather than replacing an ineffective regime. We anticipate a change within the financial services sector, as individuals are likely to want to eat more carrots and feel fewer sticks, say members of Taylor Wessing LLP.
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Conflict Minerals Compliance: What To Do Now
In the final part of a three-part series on conflict minerals compliance, Michael Littenberg at Ropes & Gray LLP discusses practical compliance tips for this cycle and the next in light of past and expected trends in conflict minerals compliance.
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UK Modern Slavery Act: Public Shame In The Supply Chain
Businesses are increasingly expected to respect human rights wherever they operate. Though light on government regulation, the U.K. Modern Slavery Act is designed to engineer pressure from consumers, investors and the media, which could ultimately be more effective at driving up standards than the threat of legal enforcement action, says Richard Tauwhare at Dechert LLP.
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New UK Supply Chain Disclosures Apply To US Companies
Starting in October 2015, some U.S. companies, including many that already come within the scope of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, will be required to make disclosures about the steps their supply chains are taking to prevent human trafficking under the U.K.'s Modern Slavery Act, says Michael Littenberg at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.