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March 18, 2024
Activist Was Harassment Whistleblower, Tribunal Rules
An employee at a bottling company counts as a whistleblower because he told his employer he had witnessed a senior manager inappropriately massage a junior employee, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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March 18, 2024
Axed HMRC Staffer Wins £16K Disability Discrimination Case
HM Revenue and Customs must pay a disabled former employee £15,900 ($20,200) after it unfairly sacked him for gross misconduct and wrote off his claim that his sleep apnea was to blame, a Scottish tribunal has ruled.
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March 18, 2024
Barrister Before Tribunal For Allegedly Dodging Practice Ban
An English legal regulator told a tribunal on Monday that a suspended barrister had continued to practice under the pretense of being a "solicitor's agent" in order to sidestep a ban for sending hostile emails and making false statements to a judge.
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March 18, 2024
PA Unfairly Pushed To Quit Over Underground COVID Fears
A trader unfairly forced his personal assistant to quit after demanding that she continue to work at his house despite her concerns about catching COVID-19 on the London Underground, an appeals tribunal has ruled.
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March 18, 2024
UK Pension Insurers Sign Up To Net-Zero Targets
The bulk annuities insurance sector in Britain has universally adopted net-zero targets for carbon emissions, but analysts warn that there is still more to do in terms of climate stewardship.
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March 15, 2024
Rentokil Should Have Tested Disabled Staffer In New Job
Rentokil failed to make reasonable adjustments for its employee with multiple sclerosis when it declined to offer him a trial period in a less physical role before cutting him loose, a London appeals tribunal has ruled.
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March 15, 2024
Academic Wins Payout After Being Bullied Into Resigning
An academic who resigned after being subjected to "bullying and intimidating behavior" by her line manager has been awarded more than £14,000 by a tribunal.
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March 15, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen Howard Kennedy face legal action by a London hotel chain, former racing boss Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One hit with a breach of contract claim by a Brazilian racecar driver, and a libel row between broadcaster Jeremy Vine and ex-footballer Joey Barton. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 15, 2024
Debenhams Pension Deal Eases Superfund Fears, LCP Says
The step by Clara-Pensions to take on all 10,400 members of the retirement savings plan of collapsed retailer Debenhams in the U.K.'s second-ever superfund deal will ease concerns around transactions in the nascent market, a consultancy has said.
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March 15, 2024
Insurer Calls For Clarity Over National Insurance Funding
The U.K. government must provide clarity over the impact of payroll tax cuts on future funding for state pensions, insurance giant Aegon UK said Friday.
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March 15, 2024
Pension Watchdog Says Poor-Value Plan Initiative Is Working
The U.K.'s retirement savings watchdog said that its fight against poor-value pension schemes is working and that plans are choosing to wind up following government regulations introduced to drive improvements for members.
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March 14, 2024
Judge Breyer Seeks To Boost Security Outside SF Courthouse
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said at a Thursday hearing that he'll meet with the U.S. Marshals Service to press for increased security around the San Francisco courthouse to ensure court staff and jurors' safety, the same day the city was sued over the neighborhood's open-air drug markets.
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March 14, 2024
Army Camp Beats Worker's Claim Over Bullying Commandant
An employment tribunal in Liverpool has tossed a claim by a former U.K. armed forces training camp employee that he was forced to quit because the camp botched a probe into repeated bullying by the camp commandant.
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March 14, 2024
Barclays Beats Race Bias Claims From Cameroonian Ex-VPs
Barclays did not discriminate against three of its former vice presidents based on their ethnicity or Cameroonian nationality, but two of the bankers proved it mishandled their performance reviews in light of disabilities they had, a tribunal has ruled.
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March 14, 2024
LSE Professor's Court Access Restricted After Meritless Claim
A London court has barred a former London School of Economics professor from bringing any more claims for three years, ruling that there was a real risk he would keep litigating despite losing his latest case against dozens of barristers.
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March 14, 2024
Clara Takes Debenhams Pension Scheme In Landmark Deal
All 10,400 members of the retirement savings plan of collapsed retailer Debenhams will have their promised pension benefits restored after Clara-Pensions announced Thursday it would take on the scheme in the U.K.'s second-ever superfund transaction.
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March 14, 2024
Council Victimized Worker With Weekly In-Office Requirement
A local authority in Scotland must pay a disabled employee over £16,000 ($20,376) after an employment tribunal found the council's requirement to work one day a week in the office exacerbated the worker's anxiety and depression.
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March 14, 2024
Aid Charity Fired Lockdown 'Shisha Cave' Whistleblower
A humanitarian charity made an employee redundant in retaliation for her blowing the whistle about colleagues smoking and potentially taking illegal drugs in its offices during a COVID-19 lockdown, a U.K. employment tribunal has ruled.
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March 14, 2024
Advisers Want Tax Reduction For Pensions, Aegon Says
Many British financial advisers want the government to reduce taxes as part of pension reforms following the next general election, insurance firm Aegon UK said Thursday.
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March 14, 2024
Insurer Completes Full Construction Co. Pension Scheme Deal
Insurer Just Group said on Thursday that it has completed a £37 million ($47.3 million) buy-out of a pension scheme sponsored by a leading engineering and construction company, finishing the process that it started in 2013.
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March 14, 2024
CMS Leads Rothesay £6B Buy Of Scottish Widows Portfolio
Pension insurer Rothesay Life said Thursday that it will buy Scottish Widows' £6 billion ($7.7 billion) portfolio of bulk annuities from Lloyds Banking Group PLC, in a transaction guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.
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March 13, 2024
Nurse Mistaken About Filing Time Limits Resurrects Claim
An NHS nurse won a second crack at her unfair dismissal claims after an appellate tribunal ruled that she only missed the deadline to file because she was genuinely mistaken about the time limits.
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March 13, 2024
EU Parliament Overwhelmingly Passes Landmark AI Law
European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday in favor of a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence law, in a bid to help facilitate innovation while safeguarding the bloc's fundamental rights.
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March 13, 2024
Pensions Watchdog Workers Call Off Strike, Agree To Pay Deal
Some 400 workers at The Pensions Regulator suspended their strike action after agreeing to a pay increase aligned with guidelines set for government employees, the watchdog said Wednesday.
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March 13, 2024
Saudi Gov't Loses Immunity Appeal After Solicitors Back Out
An appeal by Saudia Arabia's British embassy against a religious discrimination claim brought by a former employee was dismissed on Wednesday after the diplomatic outpost failed to pay its solicitors at RPC to continue representing it.
Expert Analysis
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Crypto As A Coin Of The Corporate Realm: The Pros And Cons
The broadened range of crypto-assets opens up new possibilities for employers looking to recruit, incentivize and retain employees through the use of crypto, but certain risks must be addressed, say Dan Sharman and Sunny Mangatt at Shoosmiths.
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Employer Tips For Handling Data Subject Access Requests
As employers face numerous employee data-subject access requests — and the attendant risks of complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office — issues such as managing deadlines and sifting through data make compliance more difficult, highlighting the importance of efficient internal processes and clear communication when responding to a request, say Gwynneth Tan and Amy Leech at Shoosmiths.
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Employer Tips For Navigating The Growing 'Workcation' Trend
While the trend of working remotely from a holiday property may be attractive to workers, employers must set clear guidelines to help employees successfully combine work and leisure without implicating legal risks or compromising business efficacy, says Amy Leech at Shoosmiths.
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Opinion
UK Whistleblowers Flock To The US For Good Reason
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office director recently brought renewed attention to the differences between the U.K. and U.S. whistleblower regimes — differences that may make reporting to U.S. agencies a better and safer option for U.K. whistleblowers, and show why U.K. whistleblower laws need to be improved, say Benjamin Calitri and Kate Reeves at Kohn Kohn.
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No-Poach Agreements Face Greater EU Antitrust Scrutiny
EU competition authorities are increasingly viewing employer no-poach agreements as anti-competitive and an enforcement priority, demonstrating that such provisions are no longer without risk in Europe, and proving the importance of understanding EU antitrust law concerns and implications, says Robert Hardy at Greenberg Traurig.
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Water Special Administration Changes May Affect Creditors
Following the publication of new legislation, changes are afoot to the U.K. government's statutory regime governing special administrations for regulated water companies — and one consequence may be that some creditors of such companies will find themselves in a more uncertain position, say Helena Clarke and Charlotte Møller at Squire Patton.
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Opinion
Labour Should Reconsider Its Discrimination Law Plans
While the Labour Party's recent proposals allowing equal pay claims based on ethnicity and disability, and introducing dual discrimination, have laudable intentions and bring some advantages, they are not the right path forward as the changes complicate the discrimination claim process for employees, say Colin Leckey and Tarun Tawakley at Lewis Silkin.
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Tracing The History Of LGBTQ+ Rights In The Workplace
Pride History month is a timely reminder of how recent developments have shaped LGBTQ+ employees' rights in the workplace today, and what employers can do to ensure that employees are protected from discrimination, including creating safe workplace cultures and promoting allyship, say Caitlin Farrar and Jessica Bennett at Farrer.
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Ruling In FCA Case Offers Tips On Flexible Work Requests
In Wilson v. Financial Conduct Authority, the Employment Tribunal recently found that the regulator's rejection of a remote work request was justified, highlighting for employers factors that affect flexible work request outcomes, while emphasizing that individual inquiries should be considered on the specific facts, say Frances Rollin, Ella Tunnell and Kerry Garcia at Stevens & Bolton.
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Breaking Down The New UK Pension Funding Regs
Recently published U.K. pension regulations, proposing major changes to funding and investing in defined benefit pension schemes, raise implementation considerations for trustees, including the importance of the employer covenant, say Charles Magoffin and Elizabeth Bullock at Freshfields.
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Pension Scheme Ruling Elucidates Conversion Issues
In Newell Trustees v. Newell Rubbermaid UK Services, the High Court recently upheld a pension plan's conversion of final salary benefits to money purchase benefits, a welcome conclusion that considered several notable issues, such as how to construe pension deeds and when contracts made outside scheme rules can determine benefits, say Ian Gordon and Jamie Barnett at Gowling.
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Workplace Bullying Bill Implications For Employers And Execs
In light of the upcoming parliamentary debate on the Bullying and Respect at Work Bill, organizations should consider how a statutory definition of "workplace bullying" could increase employee complaints and how senior executives would be implicated if the bill becomes law, says Sophie Rothwell at Charles Russell.
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Amazon's €32M Data Protection Fine Acts As Employer Caveat
The recent decision by French data privacy regulator CNIL to fine Amazon for excessive surveillance of its workers opens up a raft of potential employment law, data protection and breach of contract issues, and offers a clear warning that companies need coherent justification for monitoring employees, say Robert Smedley and William Richmond-Coggan at Freeths.
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Employers Can 'Waive' Goodbye To Unknown Future Claims
The Scottish Court of Session's recent decision in Bathgate v. Technip Singapore, holding that unknown future claims in a qualifying settlement agreement can be waived, offers employers the possibility of achieving a clean break when terminating employees and provides practitioners with much-needed guidance on how future cases might be dealt with in court, says Natasha Nichols at Farrer & Co.
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Why Investment In Battery Supply Chain Is Important For UK
The recently published U.K. battery strategy sets out the government’s vision for a globally competitive battery supply chain, and it is critical that the U.K. secures investment to maximize opportunities for economic prosperity and net-zero transition, say lawyers at Watson Farley & Williams.