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UK: HSF Global Guide to Whistleblowing
Herbert Smith Freehills has published the first edition of a Global Guide to Whistleblowing, providing a quick reference guide to the law and culture …
UK: New publications
GEO new guide for employers on Recruitment and Retention of Transgender Staff. Guidance from the Committee on Standards in Public Life on how public …
UK: Privilege - High Court confirms legal advice privilege can include lawyer’s summary of facts
A High Court decision has confirmed that the protection of legal advice privilege is not restricted to actual legal advice. The privilege will protect …
UK: Contract - Supreme Court clarifies test for implying terms
The Supreme Court has recently clarified the law on when the court can imply a term that the parties have not expressly included in their contract, …
UK: Autumn statement - employment law announcements
The Autumn Statement by the Chancellor on 25 November 2015 included the following: The apprenticeship levy will be introduced in April 2017 at a rate …
UK: Disability discrimination - cases highlight recruitment risks for employers in relation to references and interviews
Where a prospective employer receives an unsatisfactory reference about an applicant's suitability for a role, in circumstances where they have been …
UK: Disability discrimination - duty to make reasonable adjustments to attendance management policy
Employers should take particular care when applying an attendance management policy to disabled employees. Overruling previous EAT authority (see our …
UK: European Court of Justice ruling on working time creates headache for employers of peripatetic workers
The European Court of Justice has ruled that, for peripatetic employees with no fixed or habitual workplace, time spent travelling from home to the first …
UK: New resources
BIS guide for employers on zero-hours contracts. The Government has also published draft regulations to provide remedies to those on zero hours …
UK: Financial services: consultation on regulatory references and planned extension of Senior Managers Regime
The FCA and PRA are consulting until 7 December on proposed changes to the way relevant firms seek and provide references for candidates of certain …
UK: Government proposed reforms - equal pay, diversity, picketing and employment agencies
Consultation over the Government's plan to require larger companies to publish pay information showing whether there is a gender pay gap closed in …
UK: Statutory holiday - recalculation of entitlement to reflect change to hours need not be retrospective
The ECJ has confirmed that, when a worker increases their hours during the leave year, the statutory leave entitlement going forward must be recalculated …
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