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UK: 48 hour working week - employers can rely on reasonable policy to refuse overtime to non-opted out employees
It is lawful for employers to adopt a reasonable policy of refusing overtime to employees who have not opted out of the 48 hour maximum working …
UK: Disability - employers may need to make reasonable adjustments to a practice even if it does not apply directly to disabled employees
The EAT has confirmed that employers should consider reasonable adjustments to policies or practices which do not apply directly to disabled employees …
UK: TUPE - payments for loss of pension rights should be separated out from payments to continue in employment
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that payments to employees on a TUPE transfer made partly to compensate for the loss of pension rights and partly as an …
UK: Compromise agreement - scope of legal fees indemnity
Where a compromise agreement includes an indemnity for legal fees incurred in "any administrative, regulatory, judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings" as …
UK: Employment status - university sponsorship contract not employment
A contract under which a company sponsored a student's university course and provided paid 'industrial training' during holidays did not amount to an …
UK: Discrimination - voluntary commitment to anonymous CVs
The use of anonymous CVs was mooted by the Liberal Democrats in their election manifesto and proposed as an (ultimately unsuccessful) amendment to the …
UK: Executive remuneration - Government outlines proposals
The Government has given its outline response to its consultation on executive remuneration published in September last year (see our Herbert Smith …
UK: Marital status discrimination - less favourable treatment because of marriage to a particular person is unlawful
Treating someone less favourably because they are married to a particular person is unlawful, according to a recent EAT decision. The claimant alleged …
UK: Pre-transfer dismissal can be transfer-connected even where no transferee identified at time
The Court of Appeal has resolved conflicting EAT decisions and ruled that a dismissal can be "transfer-connected" even if the transferor has yet to …
UK: TUPE will always apply to transfer the employees of a business sold while in administration
The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT’s ruling that administrations are never to be viewed as “instituted with a view to liquidation”, even if it is …
UK: Statutory holiday - non-working periods can be holiday
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Court of Session that employers can designate as statutory holiday periods of time where the employee is …
UK: Confidential information cannot be protected by barring order or premature application for injunction
Case law has established that it may be possible to injunct a professional adviser from acting as an expert for one party to a claim when it had …
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