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  • Poundland judgment neither a surprise nor a victory

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    04 November 2013

    Following her comments on the Supreme Court’s ‘back to work’ judgment last week, Carla Davidson's subsequent article on the case is featured in HR Magazine.

  • UK’s Supreme Court rules ‘workfare’ legally flawed

    Press

    31 October 2013

    In a Financial Times article, Carla Davidson comments upon a Supreme Court ruling that the Government's controversial back to work schemes, which require jobseekers to work for free or risk losing their benefits, were legally flawed.

  • PRCA and Lewis Silkin launch industry-leading legal partnership

    Press

    25 October 2013

    The PRCA and Lewis Silkin LLP are delighted to announce a strategic partnership that includes an employment and commercial legal helpline for PRCA corporate members.

  • Auto enrolment pension regime

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    21 October 2013

    In a co-authored article for The Law Society Gazette, Katherine Shaw and Kathryn Pickard discuss the impact the new auto enrolment pension rules will have on law firms, and the tricky areas that they are likely to encounter.

  • Ius Laboris supports first ever certified Global Reward Management Programme through top European Business Schools

    Press

    18 October 2013

    Ius Laboris, the world’s largest and highest quality alliance of HR law firms, has announced it is contributing the HR law training aspects of the first ever certified Global Reward Management programme in Europe.

  • Policies on porn: how to tackle internet misuse in the workplace

    Press

    16 October 2013

    In a Reuters article, Russell Brimelow discusses large financial institutions' policies towards employees accessing, or attempting to access, pornography whilst at work.

  • Raising the standard of living and ending low pay: passing the buck to employers?

    09 October 2013

    Politicians want a higher standard of living for all, with proposals to end low pay and get more money in more people's pockets. To do this, a range of policy initiatives are being debated that it's hoped will help people with the cost of living and raise living standards, but which will impact employers.

  • The City takes a break from holidays

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    30 September 2013

    In this Financial News article, Colin Leckey discusses results of the Financial News' City job satisfaction survey which found that 30.5% of survey participants did not take their entire holiday entitlement for the year. 

  • Employers' LinkedIn rights: another piece of the puzzle

    Press

    10 September 2013

    In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses a High Court ruling deciding that a former employer can exert some control over an employee’s LinkedIn account after termination in order to protect its business (Whitmar Publications Ltd v Gamage [2013] EWHC 1881 (Ch)). This is despite the fact that the LinkedIn user agreement is often in the name of the employee.

  • Online monitoring

    10 September 2013

    In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses whether looking up information posted on social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, or performing a search on an internet search engine, can be used as a basis for rejecting a job candidate, infringe an employee's data protection rights; or permit an employer to dismiss an employee.

  • Regulating the recruitment sector - how far will the new framework go?

    Press

    14 August 2013

    In an article written for the International Law Office, Carla Feakins discusses the government's official response to its recent consultation on reforming the regulatory framework for the recruitment sector.

  • What are zero-hours contracts?

    Press

    05 August 2013

    In a BBC article, Michael Burd discusses the benefits of zero-hour contracts and why employers choose to use them.

  • Creating an international client-facing knowledge website

    Press

    18 July 2013

  • Employer issues with LinkedIn: Stemming the tide

    Press

    26 June 2013

    In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the issues that employers may face when its employees use professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn.

  • 100 Years of Employment Law

    Press

    18 June 2013

    Richard Lister wrote an article for the Impact magazine to mark the centenary of the CIPD, taking a look back at how UK employment law has evolved over the past 100 years.

  • Bankers' bonuses: Curbing excess

    Press

    14 June 2013

    In an article written for PLC Magazine, Colin Leckey, Victoria Goode and Ailsa Murdoch discuss a recent ruling that investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort must uphold a promise made at the height of the financial crisis to guarantee a minimum €400 million bonus pool to a group of bankers at its London office.

  • Bring your own device: Responding to the trend

    Press

    14 June 2013

    In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the 'Bring your own device' (BYOD) trend, how employers should respond to it, and how it could have potentially damaging implications.

  • US employment law firm FordHarrison joins Ius Laboris, Global HR law Alliance

    Press

    12 June 2013

    Ius Laboris, the world’s largest alliance of Human Resources­­­­ law firms (of which Lewis Silkin is the UK member) announced that U.S. employment law firm FordHarrison LLP has joined the Alliance.

  • Flexible working - the backlash

    Press

    23 May 2013

    In a Financial Times article, Russell Brimelow discusses Flexible Working and how often some employers don’t realise they have health and safety obligations if staff are working from home. Not only does technology need to be safe, but the working environment needs to be as risk-free as practicable too.

  • Lewis Silkin announces new partner

    Press

    02 April 2013

    Rebecca Peedell has been appointed partner in Lewis Silkin’s renowned Employment, Reward and Immigration team effective 1st April 2013.

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