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New consultations on employment tribunals and ill health and disability
04 January 2017The government has launched two new consultations: the first on reforms to the employment tribunal system and the second on work, health and disability.
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TUPE
11 January 2017The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 and previous versions of the regulations (which have been in force in the UK since 1981) implement the European Acquired Rights Directive, the general purpose of which is to safeguard employee rights in the transfer of a business.
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Contracts of employment
12 January 2017A contract of employment can be a written document, a verbal agreement, or a mixture of the two. Even where the employer and employee have agreed express terms, certain terms are always implied into every contract of employment. Understanding the full effect of the contract of employment is important because it forms the basis of many of the legal rights and obligations which govern the employment relationship.
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LSInterchange event
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Planning for employment law issues in your HR budget
19 January 2017With the annual budgeting process now underway in many businesses, we have taken a look at the expected employment law developments for the coming year and identified five non-core areas of potential spend/cost that HR directors may want to make allowance for in their 2017/18 budget.
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IFLR In-House Counsel Summit 2017
20 January 2017Lewis Silkin is delighted to be speaking at this week’s IFLR In-House Counsel Summit 2017 in London for the second year in a row.
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Employee claim to compensation under the Patents Act rejected
25 January 2017Employees may claim statutory compensation if they are responsible for a patent of “outstanding benefit” to their employer.
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Extending the reach of the Modern Slavery Act 2015
26 January 2017The link between an increasingly globalised economy and the labour rights of workers was put firmly on the commercial agenda by the Government when it introduced the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“MSA”) in October 2015.
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Businesses urged to think ahead before the introduction of the Immigration Skills Charge
27 January 2017From April 2017, the Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) will significantly increase the fees payable by employers when sponsoring skilled migrants.
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Home Office emails migrants for information
01 February 2017It has come to our attention that the Home Office is emailing migrants whose leave is due to expire within a few weeks and inviting them to provide the following information:
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Equality at work
03 February 2017Discrimination in the workplace is governed by the Equality Act 2010. This brings together into one place all of the equality laws that had developed over a number of years, including those based on EU law. It also covers discrimination in other areas such as the provision of goods, facilities and services.
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Indemnity costs intended to have chilling effect
07 February 2017Court orders indemnity costs in recognition of the fact that litigation became “out of control” due to factors that were attributable to the conduct of the Claimants and their legal representatives and experts in the lead up to trial.
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Gender pay gap regulations - Reading
08 February 2017The gender pay gap regulations will probably be 2017's most important piece of employment legislation.
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Pimlico Plumbers are workers not self-employed
14 February 2017In the latest development in a series of cases on employment status, the Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by Pimlico Plumbers and found that a “self-employed” plumber should have been classed a worker.
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Salary sacrifice arrangements
14 February 2017A salary sacrifice arrangement is where an employee gives up the right to receive part of the cash salary due under their contract of employment in return for the employer’s agreement to provide some form of non-cash benefit.
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Chinese visa applications additional new requirements to be aware of
16 February 2017Following the recent rollout of China’s new work permit system for Chinese Business Z visas, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revised the requirements for photographs submitted to overseas Chinese consular and embassies with visa applications.
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Dating apps get even more interesting
17 February 2017A Scottish court has recently refused to find that a legal partnership existed between two former friends and Mr Elliott in relation to a business arrangement to develop and exploit a couple of online dating apps. The court held that, without a contract, there was no partnership and Mr Elliott was not obliged to share the profits from the venture with the friends.
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Estate agent unable to claim his fee on successful property sale
17 February 2017The Court of Appeal has decided that it cannot imply contractual terms where there is no contract in the first place. In this case, it would not imply a term to enable an estate agent to recover his commission on a sale.
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Lewis Silkin advises Blend Media on successful seed funding
17 February 2017Lewis Silkin is advising innovative content start-up Blend Media on its growth strategy, and has helped the company to complete its latest round of funding.