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UK: TUPE will always apply to transfer the employees of a business sold while in administration
The EAT has ruled that administrations are never to be viewed as "instituted with a view to liquidation", even if it is immediately clear to the …
UK: Restructuring - subjective assessment for appointment to new role
Where a group of otherwise redundant employees have applied for a newly created role, an employer is entitled to use its subjective judgment of who would …
UK: Board diversity - Davies Report recommends targets
The Davies Report on how to increase the proportion of women on boards has been published. In its key recommendation, the report rejects quotas …
UK: Equality Act - dual discrimination delayed
According to Personnel Today, the Government Equalities Office have confirmed that the dual discrimination provisions in the Equality Act will not come …
UK: Equality Act - disability guidance
Revised draft guidance on the definition of disability has been laid before Parliament and is expected to come into force on 1 May 2011, after which …
UK: Training requests - extension to smaller employers postponed
The right to make a request for time off to train or study will not be extended to employers with fewer than 250 employees in April 2011 as originally …
UK: Tax - treatment of post-P45 payments
Our December ebulletin noted the HMRC's intention to change PAYE regulations and require employers from 6 April 2011 to apply the usual basic, higher and …
UK: HMRC publishes FAQs on the draft disguised remuneration legislation
On 9 December 2010 HMRC released draft legislation in the Finance Bill 2011 designed to "tackle arrangements involving trusts and other vehicles used to …
UK: Bribery Act - implementation delayed
The Bribery Act will not now come into force in April 2011, due to delays in publishing guidance on the Act. The Act will not be implemented until …
UK: Retirement - Government confirms abolition of default retirement age
The Government has published its response to the consultation on the abolition of the default retirement age. It is going ahead with the original …
UK: Unfair dismissal - only knowledge of decision-maker relevant to reasonableness
Whether a dismissal is within the band of reasonable responses will be judged based on the knowledge of the person making the decision after a reasonable …
UK: Maternity - employee can choose to start SMP after start of leave
Women can choose to begin their Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) period on a date later than the date that they have stopped work before the birth. …
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