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Brexit bonfire of employment law not needed, say employers
Press Release
04 May 2017Employers back UK’s existing employment rights framework as negotiations over the country’s departure from the EU begin.
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Gig economy: the equality challenge?
Press
25 April 2017Sean Dempsey and David Hopper comment in HRZone on equality in the gig economy.
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Supreme Court clarifies indirect discrimination test
11 April 2017The Supreme Court has given a clear explanation of how the test for indirect discrimination works, looking in particular at whether it is necessary to know why a group is disadvantaged by an employer’s policy.
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Colin Leckey comments for HR News on the new gender pay gap regulations
Press
07 April 2017Employment Partner, Colin Leckey has commented in an article for HR News on the issues relating to the new gender pay gap reporting rules.
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Colin Leckey comments for IBTimes UK on the new gender pay gap regulations
Press
05 April 2017Employment Partner, Colin Leckey has commented in an article for International Business Times on the issues relating to the new gender pay gap reporting rules which came into force today.
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Greater clarity on data subject access requests
30 March 2017A recent Court of Appeal decision has given clarity to data controllers in terms of the grounds on which they may refuse a data subject access request (“DSAR”), although the position is not always a helpful one.
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When does notice to terminate an employment contract take effect?
30 March 2017The Court of Appeal has ruled that, in the absence of an express contractual term, written notice to terminate a contract of employment is only effective when it is received personally by the employee.
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The Best Lawyers 2018
Press Release
28 March 2017Lewis Silkin is pleased to announce that four partners in their Employment, Immigration and Reward department have been listed in this year’s edition of Best Lawyers 2018.
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Gender pay gap reporting – D-Day looms…
28 March 2017It’s the employment law change that has generated more interest than any other for many years. Next Wednesday – 5 April 2017 – is the first ever “snapshot date” for the new gender pay gap reporting regime. For several thousand employers, it’s the day for which they will have to pull the payroll data from which their first ever public gender pay gap report will need to be compiled.
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Second cycle courier found to be a ‘worker’
28 March 2017Another day, another case on the gig economy… An Employment Tribunal has found that a cycle courier was a “worker”, rather than an independent contractor, and therefore entitled to statutory holiday pay.
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Ann Tyler comments in The Law Society Gazette on employee ownership
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27 March 2017Employee Ownership Consultant, Ann Tyler has commented in an article for The Law Society Gazette which discusses the benefits of employee ownership schemes.
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New guidance on long-term sickness dismissals
23 March 2017The Court of Appeal has given some useful new guidance on the vexed question of when an employer can safely dismiss an employee who is on long-term sickness absence – although not all of the judges agreed with the result.
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Dressing to impress - discriminatory appearance codes
17 March 2017Laura Farnsworth and Emma Langhorn have written an article for HR review on discriminatory appearance codes in the workplace.
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The risk for employers in bypassing collective bargaining
16 March 2017Where an employer has recognised a trade union for collective bargaining purposes, can it still put an offer directly to its employees? This was the thorny issue for consideration in a recent Employment Tribunal decision.
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When is a ban on headscarves at work discriminatory?
16 March 2017The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its first ruling on the right to wear an Islamic headscarf at work, in two separate cases which both involved the dismissal of a Muslim employee for refusing to remove her headscarf in breach of the employer’s dress code.
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Ignorance isn't bliss... especially with illegal working
16 March 2017If you’re considering restructuring the service company which employs most of your staff, and that company holds your sponsorship licence, you may need to apply for a new sponsor licence and transfer your sponsored migrants accordingly.
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Test for ‘old-style’ transfer of economic entity requires multifactorial approach
08 March 2017The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has ruled that an employment tribunal, in finding that the termination of a franchise agreement gave rise to a relevant transfer under TUPE, made the mistake of focusing on one particular factor and failing to adopt a multifactorial approach assessing all the relevant circumstances.
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Confirmation that collectively agreed terms are ‘static’ for transferring employees
08 March 2017In two joined cases referred to the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) by the German Federal Labour Court, an Advocate General (“AG”) has handed down an advisory opinion on the effect of a TUPE transfer on employment terms governed by a collective agreement.
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Supreme Court ends British Gas challenge to holiday pay ruling
02 March 2017The Supreme Court has refused permission for British Gas to appeal against an important ruling that the calculation of holiday pay should include results-based commission.
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Activities fundamentally the same despite alterations to location and scope of service
01 March 2017The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has upheld an employment judge’s decision that a service to provide accommodation-based support services for homeless people had remained fundamentally the same before and after a TUPE service provision change (“SPC”), despite alterations to the location and scope of the service.