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Inspired or infringing? The fine margins for marketers seeking to win big at the Olympics: Alex Kelham writes for SportBusiness
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05 July 2021Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And you can say the same about ambush marketing. One person’s outrageous ambush is another’s genius marketing campaign.
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How to manage: Employers need to prepare for the introduction of statutory sick pay: Síobhra Rush writes for Business Post
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05 July 2021Whether they already provide paid sick leave or not, all employers should review their employment contracts, policies and procedures to ensure they comply with new law.
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How can I revert a contract to pre-Covid terms? Frances Simm writes for The Times
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02 July 2021Having tweaked our contracts with several customers to reflect lockdown restrictions, we now want to revert back to the terms we had. I assume there’s a catch?
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Comms firms are a sweet spot for private equity, but how do founders make it work? Karish Andrews and Sadiq Tajbhai write for PR Week
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01 July 2021Over recent years private equity investment in the marcomms sector has increased substantially, where it now rivals the global networks, consultancies and independents in the buyer league tables.
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New judgment restricts employers’ scope for responding to industrial action
30 June 2021The Employment Appeal Tribunal has interpreted the law on detrimental treatment for trade union activities in a way that limits how employers may respond to their staff taking industrial action.
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Staffing solutions and the supply of labour
Inbrief
29 June 2021The supply of labour is a growing area of the UK economy. As employers require more flexible staffing solutions, new business models have emerged offering a range of labour-supply options.
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The test for equal pay comparisons - going back to the source: Carolyn Soakell writes for PLC Magazine
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29 June 2021In what might be the last ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a UK equal pay case, the ECJ has confirmed that female staff working in Tesco stores can rely directly on the EU “single source” test in order to compare themselves to men working in distribution centres (K and others v Tesco Stores Ltd C-624/19).
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Why the UK government had to allow HFSS online ads 'loophole': Brinsley Dresden writes for Mediatel News
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28 June 2021Boris Johnson's attempts to fight the invasion of foreign HFSS advertisers is less like Churchill and more like Canute, writes Brinsley Dresden.
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Court of Appeal rejects challenge to Deliveroo riders’ self-employed status
24 June 2021The Court of Appeal has unanimously and emphatically rejected an appeal, based on novel human rights arguments, that Deliveroo riders were “workers” for the purposes of the UK’s trade union recognition legislation.
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Employment law reform latest – is the government stalling or steaming ahead?
24 June 2021Employment law reform could be inching its way back onto the political radar, with new announcements on “fire and re-hire” and the single enforcement body, plus hints of a summer consultation on flexible working rights. But with no Employment Bill in sight, is this a case of all talk and no action?
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Lewis Silkin successful in Deliveroo Court of Appeal rider status challenge
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24 June 2021By a unanimous 3-0 verdict, the Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s dismissal of a judicial review of a finding by the Central Arbitration Committee that Deliveroo riders are not “workers”. The Court ruled that the riders are not in an “employment relationship” for the purposes of European law.
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Ireland - Collecting employee vaccine data – latest guidance
24 June 2021With many employers planning the return to the workplace the question arises as to what vaccination data (if any) can be collected from returning staff. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has [finally] issued guidance clarifying its position on whether it is permissible for employers to collect and process this information.
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Gender pay gap reporting in Ireland – what’s the latest?
24 June 2021The passing of the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill by the Dáil last month has pushed the preparations for gender pay gap reporting further up the to do list for many organisations. This article takes a look at the Bill and explains what employers need to know.
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New Home Office guidance published on right to work checks from 1 July 2021
23 June 2021On 18 June 2021 the Home Office released new guidance for employers on carrying out right to work checks. This has been published ahead of significant changes to right to work checks affecting EEA/Swiss (EEA) nationals and their family members from 1 July 2021.
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Working from home abroad - considerations for Irish employers
22 June 2021The increase in homeworking due to the Covid-19 pandemic is causing many Irish employees to ask if they can work from “home” from an overseas country – be that on a temporary basis, or in some cases indefinitely This Inbrief explains the potential legal issues and how to avoid the traps.
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How the parliamentary report on planning changes is likely to affect government thinking: Sara Hanrahan comments for Planning Magazine
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22 June 2021Ministers will find it hard to dismiss a heavyweight select committee report on its proposed planning changes, say observers. Among the recommendations they think are most likely to influence government thinking are a reconsideration of the proposals for new zonal-style local plans and the abolition of section 106 agreements.
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Experts express concern over compulsory vaccines for care home workers: Lucy Lewis comments for People Management
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22 June 2021Employers in the sector could struggle to enforce a vaccine mandate, commentators say, and caution other organisations against following suit.
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同一賃金請求:最高裁でのスーパーマーケットの訴え
22 June 2021英国の平等法であるEquality Act 2010(EqA)では、男性と女性は同一労働に対して同一賃金を受け取るべきだとしている。従業員は、同じ仕事または同価値の仕事をしている異性の比較対象者と自分を比較することができる。The UK’s law on equality, the Equality Act 2010 (EqA), states that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. Employees can compare themselves with a comparator of the opposite sex who is performing either the same work or work of equal value.
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Agency workers
Inbrief
21 June 2021The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (“the Regulations”) have had a significant impact on the temporary working industry in the UK .
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What can we do about a court judgment that arrived while our office was closed? Mark Lim writes for The Times
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21 June 2021We have just opened the post after two months away from the office to find a court judgment against us. It was filed by a supplier who is claiming that we owe them money. What can we do?