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UK’s Supreme Court rules ‘workfare’ legally flawed
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31 October 2013In 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.
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PRCA and Lewis Silkin launch industry-leading legal partnership
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25 October 2013The PRCA and Lewis Silkin LLP are delighted to announce a strategic partnership that includes an employment and commercial legal helpline for PRCA corporate members.
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Auto enrolment pension regime
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21 October 2013In 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.
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Ius Laboris supports first ever certified Global Reward Management Programme through top European Business Schools
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18 October 2013Ius 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.
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Policies on porn: how to tackle internet misuse in the workplace
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16 October 2013In a Reuters article, Russell Brimelow discusses large financial institutions' policies towards employees accessing, or attempting to access, pornography whilst at work.
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The City takes a break from holidays
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30 September 2013In 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.
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Employers' LinkedIn rights: another piece of the puzzle
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10 September 2013In 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.
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Regulating the recruitment sector - how far will the new framework go?
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14 August 2013In 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.
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What are zero-hours contracts?
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05 August 2013In a BBC article, Michael Burd discusses the benefits of zero-hour contracts and why employers choose to use them.
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Employer issues with LinkedIn: Stemming the tide
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26 June 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the issues that employers may face when its employees use professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn.
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100 Years of Employment Law
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18 June 2013Richard 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.
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Bankers' bonuses: Curbing excess
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14 June 2013In 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.
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Bring your own device: Responding to the trend
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14 June 2013In 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.
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US employment law firm FordHarrison joins Ius Laboris, Global HR law Alliance
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12 June 2013Ius 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.
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Flexible working - the backlash
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23 May 2013In 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.
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Lewis Silkin announces new partner
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02 April 2013Rebecca Peedell has been appointed partner in Lewis Silkin’s renowned Employment, Reward and Immigration team effective 1st April 2013.
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Collective agreements and TUPE - more dynamic than you might think
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12 March 2013In Beerg's Global Labor newsletter, Katherine Shaw discusses the transfer of employees to another employer under TUPE.
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Irate RBS bankers could challenge bonus clawbacks
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08 March 2013In an eFinancialCareers article, James Davies suggests that the investment bankers who have had their bonuses reduced, or even clawed back, in response to the breaches of others may challenge the decision as it could appear to be legally dubious. James argues that issues arise when bonus clawbacks are used as penalties rather than as recompense for damage done. RBS, which is 82 percent owned by the UK government, announced last week that it was cutting bonuses for 2012 and clawing back bonuses for previous years to cover its £390m Libor fixing fine.
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Can we stop our former multichannel director disclosing our strategy to her new retail employer?
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08 February 2013James Walters discusses the possibility of former employees disclosing sensitive company information and how best to approach it in an article for Retail Week.