Employment UK

  • August 13, 2025

    HSF Kramer, CMS Guide £36M Pension Deal For German Bank

    Pension Insurance Corp. has completed a £36 million ($49 million) buy-in transaction involving the pensions of 156 members of The Helaba Group in a deal guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP.

  • August 13, 2025

    Thousands Of Sainsbury's Female Staff Fight For Equal Pay

    Thousands of female shop workers for retail giant Sainsbury's have claimed that their jobs are of equal value to those of better-paid male warehouse staff in their fight for equal pay.

  • August 13, 2025

    UK Employers Targeted By Foreign Worker Sponsorship Scam

    U.K. organizations that sponsor overseas workers have been targeted by fraudsters posing as the Home Office and using a sophisticated phishing scam to steal sensitive data, according to cybersecurity company Mimecast.

  • August 13, 2025

    EAT Draws Hard Line On Bringing 2nd Claim During 1st

    An appeals tribunal has upheld a decision to block a worker's second claim against a social housing provider, ruling that he should have tried to add the complaint to the first claim he had filed.

  • August 13, 2025

    Gov't Urged To Tackle UK Self-Employed Pensions 'Crisis'

    The government should allow HM Revenue and Customs and financial advisers to provide personalized "nudges" to self-employed workers to encourage retirement saving amid mounting concern that they are not putting enough money aside, a cross-party think tank has said.

  • August 13, 2025

    Recruitment Co. Founder Wins £229K For Botched Dismissal

    A recruitment agency must pay £229,118 ($310,000) to one of its co-founders after it unfairly dismissed him and failed to pay him his bonus, an employment tribunal has ruled. 

  • August 13, 2025

    Squire Patton Steers £23M Pension Deal For UK Steelmaker

    Reinforced-steel supplier Rom Ltd. has agreed a £23 million ($31 million) full pension scheme buy-in with Just Group, the financial services company said Wednesday.

  • August 13, 2025

    Machinery Biz FD Gets 11-Year Ban For £1.5M Undeclared Tax

    A former financial director of a machinery business has been banned from the profession for 11 years for submitting false value-added tax returns over three years and leaving more than £1.5 million ($2 million) undeclared to HM Revenue and Customs.

  • August 12, 2025

    Calling A Woman's Attire 'Conservative' Could Be Harassment

    A tribunal has ruled that a business consultant working at Shell may have harassed a female colleague by labeling her clothes "conservative," rejecting the consultant's own set of claims against his former employer.

  • August 12, 2025

    WME Denies Poaching Agent To Target Rival's Top Clients

    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment has denied poaching an agent from a rival U.K. talent agency, dismissing allegations that he used press coverage to lure clients including Queens of the Stone Age, Coldplay and boygenius.

  • August 12, 2025

    Financial Data Provider Sues Rival For Database Theft

    A financial data provider has accused a former product director at one of its subsidiaries of copying a valuable database on infrastructure and energy deals in order to launch a rival platform.

  • August 12, 2025

    HMCTS Says 'No Evidence' IT Bug Affected Case Outcomes

    The body that manages the court system in England and Wales insisted on Tuesday that a widely-reported technical problem did not affect cases, saying an internal investigation found "no evidence" of an impact on outcomes.

  • August 12, 2025

    Insurer Utmost Group's Assets Grow To £107B After Rival Buy

    Utmost Group said Tuesday that its gross cash inflows increased to £5.3 billion ($7.1 billion) in the first half of 2025 after the British insurer completed the acquisition of rival Lombard International in December.

  • August 12, 2025

    Hospitality Swamped By Employment Claims As Reforms Near

    British hospitality and leisure businesses are facing a disproportionate number of employment tribunal claims as the government pursues reforms to strengthen workers' rights to get redress, a report from law firm Birketts LLP showed Tuesday.

  • August 12, 2025

    Gov't Faces Litigation Over Shell, BAE Secondment Scheme

    A human rights organization has warned the foreign secretary that a plan to invite staff from oil giant Shell and defense contractor BAE Systems to take on diplomatic roles might be unlawful.

  • August 11, 2025

    Business School Must Face Visa Sponsorship Bias Claim

    A business school can't escape a former staffer's claims that it is racially discriminating against him for being Egyptian by failing to obtain a visa sponsorship after employees were transferred to another company, an employment tribunal has ruled. 

  • August 11, 2025

    Synagogue Org To Ax Rabbi After Inquiry By Retired Judge

    A U.K. Jewish charity and synagogue organization did not act unfairly by sacking a rabbi after a retired judge deemed him guilty of gross misconduct following allegations of sexual misconduct, a tribunal ruled in a decision released Monday.

  • August 11, 2025

    Heathrow Staffer Fired Over Allegedly Racist Video Wins £44K 

    Heathrow Airport must pay £43,999 ($59,000) to a security officer it unfairly fired for showing his colleague a video allegedly portraying India as dirty, but it does not have to give him back his job, an employment tribunal has ruled. 

  • August 11, 2025

    Royal London Secures £1B In Pension Deals Since Launch

    The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Ltd. said it has secured at least £1 billion ($1.34 billion) in pension scheme liabilities since entering the de-risking market last year.

  • August 11, 2025

    7 Local Gov't Pension Funds To Join Border To Coast

    Border to Coast Pensions Partnership said Monday that seven local government pension scheme funds that manage approximately £45 billion ($60.5 billion) plan to join the pool, as part of the wider plan to consolidate the U.K.'s retirement pot.

  • August 11, 2025

    Most Pension Savers Under 65 Tap Funds Early, Data Shows

    Approximately 70% of the three million savers in Britain who withdrew money from their retirement pots after government reforms in 2015 did so before they reached state pension age, a retirement specialist said Monday.

  • August 11, 2025

    Addleshaw Helps PIC On £4.3B Rolls-Royce Pension Deal

    Pension Insurance Corp. PLC said Monday that it has covered £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) of pension liabilities for British aerospace and defense giant Rolls-Royce PLC to help streamline its business operations.

  • August 08, 2025

    Solicitor Found To Be Incompetent In Property Deal Oversight

    A disciplinary tribunal ruled on Friday that a solicitor displayed "manifest incompetence" when he failed to spot red flags in several potentially fraudulent property transactions — but also found that his conduct had not lacked integrity.

  • August 08, 2025

    Bar Council Calls For 'Urgent' Probe Into HMCTS IT Bugs

    The Bar Council called on Friday for an investigation into reports that IT bugs in case management software caused information and evidence used in court cases to be hidden, overwritten or disappear, potentially affecting the outcome of litigation.

  • August 08, 2025

    Private Sector Pension Savings Hit Record £25.5B In 2024

    Private sector employees in the U.K. contributed a record £25.5 billion ($34.3 billion) to their pension pots in 2024, a consultancy said on Friday.

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