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Employment law across the globe: what’s happened and what’s coming up?
20 June 2024This document was prepared for our 2024 Managing an International Workforce conference on 20th June 2024.
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Resourcing for 2021: homeworking, flexibility and wellbeing
04 March 2021In the second of our three-part series exploring resourcing challenges, opportunities and trends in 2021, we examine the trend towards homeworking and other flexible working arrangements and the growing focus on wellbeing, trust and culture.
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Hospitality industry welcomes post-Brexit salary threshold review
10 July 2019On 24 June, the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to review the £30,000 minimum salary threshold it proposed for sponsoring skilled workers in the post-Brexit immigration system, which is due to be rolled out from 1 January 2021. This move has been welcomed by the hospitality industry as an opportunity to ensure it can sponsor medium skilled workers from 2021 without having to pay substantially above market rates.
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Autumn Budget 2021: Welcome! Everything is fine.
28 October 2021The Chancellor has hit upon a canny trick. Make the difficult announcements a few weeks before your Budget speech so that when the spotlight is really on you can simply promise rainbows and puppy dogs for all. The Health and Social Care Levy announced in September which comes in from April 2022 year is expected to yield about £12.7bn next year. Factor in the associated bolt-on increase in dividend income tax and that’s extra tax of around £14bn. None of the decisions announced today come close to that sort of scale.
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GDPR implications for website owners and publishers in conjunction with Panlogic
06 July 2017The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) places additional requirements on the collection, storage and use of personal data and will be mandatory for UK companies (regardless of Brexit). These requirements necessarily demand changes to both online and offline systems and processes.
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POSTPONED: IP360 Webinar Series – Innovation and patent strategy, joined by David Goodfellow
09 December 2020A new date will be announced shortly. Please register to receive an update for this webinar.
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Legal Island and Lewis Silkin webinar: Comparative Employment Law Update
24 March 2022Our Comparative Employment Law Table has been updated and expanded to include recent Republic of Ireland developments (of which there are many).
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Brexit means... it's the end of free movement as we know it
18 January 2017As expected, Prime Minister Theresa May today laid out plans for what has come to be known in the press as a “hard Brexit”.
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We’ll meet AGAin: permission to appeal granted in AGA Rangemaster v UK Innovations trade mark and copyright dispute
16 September 2024Can brands control the refurbishment, conversion and resale of products they sell? The answer from the recent AGA cooker case indicates that such ability is limited, at least absent clear evidence of a serious risk to the brand’s reputation. We look at what happened, what this means for OEMs, and what the appeal might have in store.
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The half way point to Brexit: 12 months down, 12 months to go
29 March 2018Today marks the one year anniversary since Article 50 was triggered on 29 March 2017. The last 12 months have seen a number of key developments. Following the end of the first stage of negotiations in Brussels, there is now an agreement in place for the rights of EU nationals and their family members living in the UK. Last week saw the announcement that the UK and EU have finally agreed a deal on the transition period.
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Harry Potter, Fracking, eco-warriors and ‘mob rule’ or freedom of expression – the Court of Appeal decides in the Ineos injunction case
04 April 2019Where is the dividing line between mob rule and lawful freedom of expression? This is one of the leading questions of the day. Should students be permitted to invite politicians with extreme views onto campus? Should a celebrated Oxford law professor be sacked for alleged homophobia? What about Brexit? Should protestors be arrested for confronting our MPs and expressing their views? And companies carrying out their lawful business – should they be allowed to do so without interference from protestors?
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SPA warranty claims - getting the notice right
17 June 2021Today’s challenging economic climate has reduced the value of many businesses.
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Brand owners gain another tool in the war against counterfeits (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Brand owners will welcome a ruling from the CJEU over the summer that an operator of a physical marketplace can be an ‘intermediary’ for the purposes of Article 11 of the IP Enforcement Directive.
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Bosses don't want a Brexit bonfire of red tape say Michael Burd and James Davies
26 July 2017Contrary to popular perception, most employers are happy with current levels of regulation" write Michael Burd and James Davies write Management Today.
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RMT union calls for members to vote for Brexit
08 April 2016James Davies and Bethan Carney have been quoted in an article by the Financial Times regarding the employment implications of Brexit.
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Natasha Hotson cited in Vogue magazine: An Italian Living in London On Brexit Britain
03 July 2017Natasha Hotson has been mentioned in an article for Vogue magazine where Italian born Cristina Ruiz discusses her experience as an Italian living in London since the Brexit referendum.
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Naomi Hanrahan-Soar comments for LexisNexis: New start-up visa could mark ‘shift towards more positive immigration policy’
15 June 2018In an article for LexisNexis, Naomi Hanrahan-Soar discusses the implications of the new visa routes announced by The Home Secretary, adding that it will hopefully ‘mark a shift toward more positive immigration news and policy’.
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The British National (Overseas) visa scheme and migration from Hong Kong to the UK
02 July 2020On 1 July 2020 the UK government announced its commitment to establish a new visa scheme for all British National (Overseas) persons and their dependants. This will provide a readily available opportunity for millions of residents of Hong Kong to move the UK far more easily than those routes currently open to them.
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EU Commission confirms its views on EWCs and a “no-deal” Brexit
01 May 2019The European Commission (“EC”) has recently revised its March 2018 guidance on the legal repercussions of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU for European Work’s Councils (“EWCs”), including the implications of a “no-deal” Brexit.
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New video sharing platform regulations - something to get twitchy about?
26 October 2020Does your website/app/platform allow the sharing of videos? Even just as an add-on to its main activities? If so new regulations governing video sharing platforms need to be on your radar.