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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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Top 5 GDPR issues for... retailers
15 March 2017The first in our series of Top 5 tips on GDPR. With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) looming on the horizon, we take a look at some of the key changes of how this legislation will affect retailers from 25 May 2018.
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Chancellor Philip Hammond’s consumer protection announcements
14 March 2017The Spring Budget is not usually an occasion for tackling the nitty-gritty of consumer protection, but last week the Chancellor promised a number of Government initiatives likely to impact upon consumer-facing businesses.
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Matthew Rowbotham comments for Essential Retail: Sharing is caring, and a bit daring – should you be preparing?
10 March 2017Matthew Rowbotham, Head of Tax, Reward and Incentives, takes a look at why e-tailers should consider employee ownership.
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Lewis Silkin advises Four Communications on its acquisition of Legend Engage
Deal
09 March 2017Lewis Silkin is a leading international law firm to creative agencies and has advised Four Communications, the independent integrated agency, on its acquisition of Legend Engage, a data and insights-led agency.
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Bonuses of contention: the treatment of incentive schemes in gender pay gap reporting
09 March 2017Carolyn Soakell blogs for Practical Law’s Employment Blog - Bonuses of contention: the treatment of incentive schemes in gender pay gap reporting
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You will NOT believe what the Chancellor did next!
09 March 2017Except of course, you probably will believe it. It’s a Budget, not an M Night Shyamalan film. And even by the standards of Budgets, it’s rare for a Chancellor to do as much as Philip Hammond has to set expectations for surprise and drama this low. In fact, some were surprised about some of the things the Chancellor didn’t do on, for example, self-employment. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
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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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Nigel Dewar Gibb comments for Music & Copyright: Copyright issues in audio streaming stem from complicated digital royalty structures
Press
03 March 2017Nigel Dewar Gibb has written an article for Music & Copyright, a fortnightly research service covering global copyright and legal issues affecting the music industry.
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Lewis Silkin ranked as one of the UK's best employers for ninth year in a row
Press Release
03 March 2017Top 100 UK law firm Lewis Silkin LLP has been recognised as one of the UK’s best employers once again in The Sunday Times’ ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ survey.
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Equal Pay
Inbrief
02 March 2017Equal pay law first developed in the UK in the 1970s after a campaign by trade unions and women’s groups. It is now a basic principle of European law that men and women who do equal work should receive equal pay. This principle is implemented in the UK today through the Equality Act 2010.
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Gender pay gap reporting
Inbrief
02 March 2017The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 (the “Regulations”) require employers to report on the gender pay gap in their organisation.
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Beware of copyright when considering existing planning permission
02 March 2017The recent judgment in Signature Realty Ltd v Fortis Developments Ltd & Anor is an excellent example of the application of copyright in a planning and building context.
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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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Alan Hunt comments in The Luxury Law Alliance: Accessing luxury in the sharing economy - the legal issues
Press
02 March 2017Senior Associate, Alan Hunt has written an article for The Luxury Law Alliance which discusses the legal issues of accessing luxury in the sharing economy of the fashion industry.
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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.
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Selling your business
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01 March 2017Many business-owners look to sell at some point. The reasons for selling may vary but often it is the opportunity for an owner to capitalise on the years of hard work that have gone into building up his or her business.
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Adjudication
Inbrief
01 March 2017Adjudication is a mandatory procedure for determining disputes, and was introduced in the construction industry by the Housing Grants, Construction & Regeneration Act 1996 (the “Construction Act”).
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Continuous service for notice pay preserved on transfer
28 February 2017An Advocate General (“AG”) of the European Court of Justice has handed down an advisory opinion on an interesting TUPE issue concerning continuous service, arising in a case referred by the Swedish Labour Court