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Employment UK
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March 05, 2025
Extended Cutoff For Employment Claims To Cost £19M A Year
Relaxing the deadline for workers to bring most employment claims is expected to cost £18.9 million ($24.3 million) per year, according to new government estimates.
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March 05, 2025
Boss Defends Pensions Service Despite Portal's Failings
The head of the Money and Pensions Service insisted on Wednesday that the body was the most suited to develop online retirement portals, despite a scathing official report revealing poor governance and inexperience at the organization.
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March 04, 2025
Enterprise Supervisor Can't Revive Harassment Case
The Court of Appeal threw out a challenge by a former payroll supervisor at car rental company Enterprise against her unsuccessful claim for harassment and unfair dismissal, finding the tribunal made a thorough and fair assessment.
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March 04, 2025
Lecturer Wins Shot At Boosting £447K Race Bias Award
A senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth could up her £447,000 ($569,873) award for racial discrimination because previous judges didn't consider how several instances of bias affected her financially, an appellate tribunal has ruled.
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March 04, 2025
Trader Denies Unlawful 'Team Move' That Energy Co. Alleged
A trader has hit back against an "oppressive" £2 million ($2.5 million) claim by his former employer, denying that he was part of an unlawful "team move" alongside former colleagues in the energy investing company.
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March 04, 2025
Pension Schemes Post Record-Breaking Consolidation
Britain's retirement savings watchdog said Tuesday the number of defined contribution pension schemes decreased 15% in 2024 to 920 — dropping to fewer than 1,000 plans for the first time.
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March 04, 2025
Pension Surpluses Rise To £180B As Gov't Weighs New Rules
The U.K.'s defined benefit pension sector is now £180 billion ($229 billion) in the black, a professional services firm said, as the government weighs plans to allow businesses to tap into funding surpluses.
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March 04, 2025
New Pension Standards Need Improvement, Trade Body Says
The Financial Reporting Council's proposed changes to the actuarial rules used in the retirement savings sector are welcome but introduce additional requirements that should be avoided, a pensions trade body said Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Gov't Toughens Up Employment Rights Bill After Consultation
The Employment Rights Bill will extend a right to guaranteed hours to agency workers and impose double penalties for employers that fail to properly consult on collective redundancies under amendments tabled by the government on Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Creators Need New Forum To Shield IP In AI Era, Gov't Told
The government must set up a new forum to allow creators to enforce their intellectual property rights amid the rise of artificial intelligence, the Trades Union Congress has said.
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March 03, 2025
2 Temple Gardens Co-Head Didn't Mislead Court, Judge Finds
A High Court judge ruled in a hearing Monday that a co-head of 2 Temple Gardens and a solicitor did not mislead the court in a long-running dispute with a Black barrister who claimed he was expelled from the set because of his race.
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March 03, 2025
UK Pensions Watchdog Calls For Improved Scheme Data
The Pensions Regulator said Monday it has launched a strategy to help the retirement savings industry digitalize more data to help inform savers and product designers.
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March 03, 2025
Brookfield Launches In UK To Tap Pension Buyout Demand
North American investment giant Brookfield Corp. said Monday it is poised to enter the U.K. pension transfer market, amid an increasing number of retirement savings plans offloading their liabilities to insurers.
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March 03, 2025
Trans Chaplain Forced To Quit By Hospital's Media Blunder
An employment tribunal has ordered an NHS children's hospital to pay £18,000 ($22,801) to a transgender chaplain who was forced to resign after bosses mishandled a media inquiry accusing him of promoting a "contested agenda" during Pride month.
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March 03, 2025
Ex-Barclays Trader Loses Fight To Redo Sexism Payout Fight
A tribunal has tossed a bid by a former Barclays analyst for a review of her £50,000 ($63,500) payout for sex discrimination and a failure to accommodate her disabilities, ruling that it did not botch its original decision.
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March 03, 2025
Gov't Softens Hard Deadline For State Pension Top-Ups
The U.K. government has softened its deadline for Britons to plug holes in their state pension, amid a surge in last-minute inquiries.
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March 03, 2025
Pension Insurer Utmost Appoints Schroders For £400M Book
Utmost Life and Pensions has appointed Schroders to act as asset manager for its retirement portfolio, after the insurer entered the bulk purchase annuity market last year.
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March 03, 2025
Ex-Royal Mail Postie Wins £45K For Race Bias, Unfair Ousting
Royal Mail must pay a former postman £44,800 ($57,000) after it racially discriminated against him before forcing his resignation by halting his sick pay, a tribunal has ruled.
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March 03, 2025
CMS Guides £2.8M Pension Deal For UK Careers Charity
The Careers Research and Advisory Centre Pension Scheme said Monday that it has secured a £2.8 million ($3.6 million) full buy-in with retirement financial services specialist Just Group PLC.
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February 28, 2025
Employment Rights Bill Should Do More, MPs' Report Says
The Employment Rights Bill can go further to close loopholes that allow rogue employers to "exploit work insecurity" and undercut compliant businesses even as employers complain that the reforms are expensive and ill-conceived, MPs told the government in an official report on the bill published on Monday.
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February 28, 2025
Tribunal 'Impressed' After Lawyer Admits Touching Co-Worker
A tribunal on Friday said it was "impressed" with a barrister's efforts to make amends after he admitted to putting his hand up a co-worker's skirt, and handed the lawyer a significantly reduced suspension for the misconduct because of "compelling mitigation."
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February 28, 2025
Teacher Loses Challenge To Ban Over Student Relationship
A former physical education teacher lost his appeal on Friday against the Disclosure and Barring Service's decision to bar him over allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with a pupil, before the teachers' regulator had come to its own conclusions.
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February 28, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the billionaire Zakay brothers, founders of Topland Group, become embroiled in a legal dispute with each other, Unilever sue three major perfume companies over alleged illegal price-fixing, and the publisher of Vogue magazine file an intellectual property suit against Cornucopia Events. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 28, 2025
Pension Credit Demand Soars After Cuts To Winter Fuel Aid
Some 300,000 U.K. retirees have applied for pension credit so far in the financial year ending March 31, showing a sharp spike from the previous year after the Labour government said it would cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.
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February 28, 2025
Gov't Urged To Overhaul Pension Transfer Rules
The U.K. government must urgently overhaul its traffic light system for pension transfers, a trade body said, warning that the rules as drafted are too vague and cause major delays.