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What is an Employee Ownership Trust and how does it work?
13 February 2024Kathy Granby and Matthew Rowbotham from our Tax, Rewards and Incentives team discuss the increasing popularity of moving to employee ownership, with a focus on Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs).
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Changes to right to work compliance: key takeaways for employers
16 February 2024The Home Office recently updated the Employer’s guide to right to work checks. The guide contains references to the increased £60,000 civil penalty for illegal working, along with some small but significant changes that impact how employers complete compliant right to work checks. In this article, we highlight the key changes to help employers stay on top of right to work compliance.
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Update: Sponsor Management System outage immediately ahead of work route salary rises
02 April 2024Update (2 April 2024): The Home Office is switching off the Sponsor Management System (SMS) from 19:00 on 3 April 2024 until 9:00 on 5 April 2024. The planned system outage was previously due to take place from 19:00 on 2 April until 9:00 on 4 April 2024. The delay gives sponsors one more day to issue Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) before salary threshold rises take effect for work routes from 4 April 2024.
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Can employees be suspended from work if they are arrested?
23 May 2024MPs now face exclusion from Parliament upon arrest for serious crimes. This has raised questions about the fairness of suspending at this point, for both MPs and employees outside Parliament. We explore best practice for suspending employees in the workplace.
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Spouses of non-EU permit holders are now free to work in Ireland - Declan Groarke comments for the Irish Examiner
03 June 2024Ireland is now a more attractive destination for skilled overseas workers as it is now far easier for their partners to also work there. To make Ireland more attractive to skilled overseas workers, the State has eased the path for family reunification. Declan Groarke outlines the significance of these changes in this article.
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Quick guide for employers: eVisas and when to perform a repeat right to work check
19 August 2024The Home Office recently announced that all biometric card holders can now apply for an eVisa and must do so by 31 December 2024. As the deadline approaches, it is crucial for employers to understand when repeat right to checks are needed and how to remain compliant.
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Domestic Abuse ‘Safe Leave’– how will it work and what does it mean for employers?
30 August 2024The Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland has published a public consultation on the framework for the introduction of safe leave for employees experiencing domestic abuse. We review how the Department plans to implement this new right and provide guidance to employers to help them understand and fulfil their obligations.
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Positive action speaks louder than words - five principles for employers
02 September 2020This article explores the legal limits of positive action in the workplace, including the situations where it is permissible to give preferences on gender or ethnicity grounds to make up for historic lack of opportunity, and what employers can and cannot do to improve diversity in their shortlists or hiring slates.
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Lewis Silkin's extensive legal advice sees successful launch of social media app Wordeo
31 January 2014Lewis Silkin has played a central role in the development of a high profile social networking application - Wordeo - recently launched to the public.
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Deferring tax to January 2021 – a word of warning to management teams and partners
05 May 2020In seeking to survive the coronavirus lockdown, partners and management teams at many professional services firms will have welcomed the package of support provided by the UK Government, including the proposal that on account tax payments due by 31 July 2020 may be deferred until 31 January 2021.
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"No veneer in 'ere": separating the wood from the MDF
07 August 2017In what is a highly unusual volte-face, an advertiser has succeeded in turning the tables on the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
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Here's why I won't be shopping at American Apparel this Christmas
20 December 2012Brinsley Dresden's analysis of American Apparel's latest print ad.
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Fired currency traders won't leave quietly
15 September 2015James Davies has been quoted in an article by Bloomberg News which looks at the growing number of lawsuits related to fired currency traders, as a result of the investigations into the manipulation of foreign-exchange markets.
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Karen Baxter comments for The Telegraph: The toxic legacy of bosses who just won't quit (like Theresa May)
24 May 2019Karen Baxter has commented in an article for The Telegraph which asks 'what can employees do when their boss refuses to quit?'
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Colin Leckey comments in AccountingWEB’s ‘Rogue bosses beware: Tribunals won’t cost and the labour-market tsar has promised action’
04 August 2017Employment partner, Colin Leckey commented in AccountingWEB on the fees that attach to employment tribunals.
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Successful sports lawyers, it just so happens they are all women
30 July 2014Alex Kelham has contributed to an article in Law In Sport challenging the perception of Sports Law as a male dominated field.
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Press Release: Talking women in leadership and gender pay gaps with Dame Janet Gaymer
25 November 2016Dame Janet Gaymer recently chaired the discussion panel at the launch of ‘The Future of Employment Legal Services'
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Talking women in leadership and gender pay gaps with Dame Janet Gaymer
01 December 2016Function after form – when will Law Firms get out in front on gender issues?
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Current gender pay gap reporting requirements unlikely to ‘empower’ women
08 March 2018Michael Burd has commented in an article for Lexis Nexis on PwC's revelation that the UK has been slower in addressing its gender pay gap compared to other developed nations, with Iceland, Sweden and Norway remaining as the top three performing OECD countries.
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Colin Leckey comments for HR Grapevine: Will Brexit have an impact on UK women's employment rights?
30 July 2018In an article for HR Grapevine, Colin Leckey comments on the Equality and Human Rights Commission stating that women in the UK risk losing equality protections, including employment rights, as a result of Brexit.