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Eight Lewis Silkin lawyers listed as Thought Leaders in employment law by Who’s Who Legal
Press Release
12 November 2018Who’s Who Legal, one of the world’s leading independent legal publications, has named eight Lewis Silkin lawyers in their first edition of Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Labour & Employment.
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The new EU Posting of Workers Directive – implications for employers
01 November 2018New EU legislation adopted earlier this year aims to establish a balanced framework with regard to the protection of workers posted from one EU country to another and the freedom to provide services. What might be the impact on employers in the UK, and how could this be affected by Brexit?
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James Davies comments for LexisNexis: Revealing the race pay gap
Press
26 October 2018James Davies has taken part in a Q+A for LexisNexis in which he discusses the implications on employers and legal practitioners of the government introducing mandatory ethnicity pay reporting by employers to promote transparency and equality in the workplace.
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Tribunal time limit calculator
25 October 2018We have created a free calculator which will automatically calculate Employment Tribunal time limits.
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Non-disclosure agreement injunction granted by Court of Appeal
25 October 2018The Court of Appeal (“CA”) has upheld a set of non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) and granted an interim injunction which prevents the Daily Telegraph newspaper from publishing details about allegations of “discreditable conduct” by a business executive towards five employees.
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Richard Miskella writes for The Drum: 'Businessman' injunction: what can and can't be published in press and social media
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25 October 2018Richard Miskella has written an article for The Drum which discusses the recent injunction put in place by a 'leading businessman' against Telegraph Media Group.
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Court of Appeal holds employer liable for wrongful disclosure of personal data by ‘rogue’ employee
24 October 2018The supermarket chain Morrisons had an internal auditor who went rogue. Aggrieved at an internal disciplinary process, he disclosed payroll data on the internet relating to about 100,000 of his colleagues. He was tracked down, charged and sentenced to eight years in prison. But was Morrisons liable to the employees whose information he had leaked?
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Colin Leckey writes for The HR Director: Ethnicity pay equality – gender pay gap-style reporting won’t work
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23 October 2018Colin Leckey has contributed to an article for The HR Director in which he discusses the proposed new law which requests feedback on the sort of information that employers should be required to publish and whether this should follow current gender pay gap reporting rules.
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Company held liable for managing director’s violent conduct
18 October 2018The Court of Appeal (“CA”) has ruled that a company was vicariously liable for the violent conduct of its managing director in physically attacking one of his employees at a Christmas party, leaving him severely disabled.
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Ethnicity pay gap reporting: why it's not that simple
18 October 2018The Government says it is “time to move to mandatory ethnicity pay reporting”. Last week it launched a consultation on a possible new law.
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Karen Baxter writes for Accountancy Age: Can you keep a secret?
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18 October 2018In this article for Accountancy Age, Karen Baxter looks at how the role of settlement agreements may have kept abusive behaviour quiet in accountancy firms.
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Refusal to provide cake supporting gay marriage was not direct sexual orientation discrimination
11 October 2018The Supreme Court (“SC”) has ruled that a bakery did not discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation when it refused to provide a cake for a customer bearing the words “support gay marriage”. The bakery’s refusal was based on the owner’s Christian beliefs that the only form of marriage acceptable to God was between one man and one woman.
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Promoting mental health awareness in the workplace
10 October 2018Today is World Mental Health Day, an appropriate time for employers to reflect on how this issue impacts the workplace and consider measures they can adopt to promote mental health and support their employees.
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Heathrow fined over data breach
09 October 2018The Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has made a civil monetary penalty order for the sum of £120,000 against Heathrow Airport Ltd (“HAL”) after a lost data stick containing the sensitive personal information of a number of staff members was found by a member of the public.
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Lewis Silkin joins forces with The Old Vic to tackle workplace abuse
Press Release
04 October 2018Lewis Silkin the first law firm to join The Old Vic’s new Guardians Network
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The Old Vic launches 'Guardians Network' to stop abuse at work with help from Lewis Silkin
Press
03 October 2018Lewis Silkin is to provide training for network member organisations of The Old Vic regarding their initiative to help stop abuses of power taking place in the workplace.
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Toni Lorenzo writes for PDP Journal: Employee competition: mitigating the risks
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01 October 2018In an article for PDP Journal Toni Lorenzo explores the main competitive risks posed by a business’ relationship with its employees and ex-employees, and proposes practical solutions for reducing an organisation’s exposure.
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Michael Burd comments for Bloomberg: Labour's staff share plan may not be as generous as it seems
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25 September 2018In an article for Bloomberg, Michael Burd discusses a Labour proposal to force companies to hand 10 percent of their equity to workers and how this could lead to a super tax on companies dividends.
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Kathryn Weaver writes for SHRM: Comply with Work-Hours Rules in China, Hong Kong and Singapore
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24 September 2018Kathryn Weaver has contributed to an article for Society for Human Resource Management which discusses the regulations around work-hours arrangements, particularly in relation to attendance, rest and overtime compensation, in China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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James Davies comments for The Times: No-deal Brexit advice ‘useless’
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20 September 2018In an article for The Times, James Davies discusses the contingency plans businesses are making to move operations out of the UK, to avoid a hard Brexit.