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Employment UK
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April 23, 2025
Aspiring Solicitor Defends 'Fraudster' Review Of Former Firm
An aspiring solicitor has hit back against a claim that she posted defamatory online reviews labeling her former boss a "fraudster," telling a London court that the reviews were true.
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April 23, 2025
Ex-Met Officer Wins Bid To Add Gowling Emails To Claim
A former police officer has won her bid to include two emails Gowling WLG sent while it represented the Metropolitan Police in her employment claim against the force — but declined to let her add the firm itself to the dispute.
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April 23, 2025
Regulator Reduces Payout To Worker Who Refused New Role
An employment tribunal has ordered the General Medical Council to pay £18,403 ($24,430) to a former staff member with multiple medical conditions for treating her unfairly, but rejected her bid for future lost wages because she had refused a chance to stay on.
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April 23, 2025
Pension Watchdog Clarifies Rules On Superfund Deals
The U.K. retirement savings watchdog said Wednesday that it wants to smooth out "friction points" that may be holding back further transactions in the burgeoning pensions superfund market.
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April 23, 2025
Childcare Act Expansion Could Boost Pension Pots By £1.2B
More parents reentering the workforce because of expanded childcare provisions in the U.K. could increase the retirement pots of savers by £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion), a pension provider said Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Heathrow Guard Unfairly Fired Over Alleged Racist Video
A tribunal has held that Heathrow Airport unfairly fired a security officer after he showed his colleague a video allegedly portraying India as dirty, ruling that his actions did not justify dismissal.
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April 22, 2025
Eye Doctor Can't Sue Over Unpaid Role Lost After Gaza Posts
A tribunal has blocked an eye doctor's discrimination claim after she lost her role with a professional body over allegedly antisemitic social media posts on the Israel-Hamas war, ruling that she was not an employee.
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April 22, 2025
Gov't Delays Police Disability Benefit Reform
The Home Office said Tuesday that it will not introduce immediate reforms to benefits available to police officers who are injured in the line of duty, despite concerns that current rules might put officers with mental health conditions at a disadvantage.
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April 22, 2025
Bouygues UK Unit Wins Appeal To Ax Age Bias Claim
A U.K. subsidiary of engineering firm Bouygues has won its bid to toss out an age discrimination claim brought by a former employee, with an appeal tribunal ruling that the ex-worker brought the claim too late without good reason.
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April 22, 2025
Schneider To Pay £35K For Racist Treatment Of Ex-Staffer
An employment tribunal has ruled that Schneider Electric must pay £35,109 ($47,000) to a Black employee who had been set up to fail by his bosses because they preferred a white woman for the job.
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April 22, 2025
Pensions Bill For UK Businesses Shrinks Over 5 Years
The amount that businesses have had to plow into distressed pension funds has shrunk over the past five years because of rapid improvements in funding, a consultancy said Tuesday.
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April 22, 2025
Aviva Study Reveals 'Concerning Gap' In Pensions Knowledge
Only a third of savers in the U.K. can correctly identify a defined benefit or defined contribution pension plan, according to a study published by Aviva on Tuesday.
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April 22, 2025
Tariff Wars Cloud UK Plan To Harness Pensions For Growth
The U.K. government has laid out plans for Britain's £3 trillion ($4 trillion) pensions sector to unleash more retirement assets into the real economy to boost growth and jobs — but a series of market shocks from proposed global trade tariffs have overshadowed reform plans.
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April 22, 2025
Employers Must Answer Tribunal Claims Via Portal, Not Email
Employers and their lawyers will have to respond to claims brought by workers at the Employment Tribunal through new online portals rather than email, according to new rules coming into force in May.
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April 17, 2025
Pillsbury Seeks Help Finding Ex-Solicitor In Prison
The Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed on Thursday to help Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP locate a solicitor in prison so she has a fair chance to pursue her appeals against her former firm.
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April 17, 2025
Mishcon De Reya Must Pay £24K To Ex-Director For Dismissal
Mishcon de Reya LLP must pay a former sales director £23,800 ($31,500) after it pushed him to quit by scrutinizing his performance even though there was nothing he could do to improve his output, a tribunal said in a decision published Thursday.
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April 17, 2025
UK Doctors' Regulator Beats Union's Case Over New Guidance
The U.K.'s biggest doctors' union failed to prove Thursday that the profession's regulator was harming patients by labeling certain staff who aren't medically qualified as "medical professionals," ruling that the move was meant to elevate standards rather than lower them.
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April 17, 2025
Criminal Defense Firm Loses Bid To Nix Unpaid Wages Claim
A law firm lost its bid on Thursday to throw out a claim for unpaid wages brought by an ex-employee, with the Employment Appeal Tribunal rejecting its argument that the solicitor was not actually an employee.
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April 17, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen the producers of West End show "Elf the Musical" face a contract dispute, Korean biotech company ToolGen Inc. bring a fresh patents claim against pharma giant Vertex, and ousted car tycoon Peter Waddell bring a claim against the private equity firm that backed his business. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 17, 2025
Booking Agency Revives Claim Over Coldplay Gigs Payout
An appeals court has rekindled a concert booking agency's claim that a former employee must hand over the commission from arranging a set of Coldplay gigs, ruling in a split decision Thursday that an earlier judge was too quick to toss the case.
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April 17, 2025
Worker Wins 2nd Shot At Claim Over Vetting Concerns
A systems designer can have a second shot at arguing that she wasn't hired by a digital services consultancy because she questioned its vetting practices, after an appeals tribunal said Thursday that she made whistleblowing claims.
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April 17, 2025
Ex-Pandora Boss Sues Trustee Over £3.3M Tax Bill
The former president of jewelry giant Pandora has sued a tax adviser for allegedly mismanaging his retirement trust and negligently exposing him and the company to significant liabilities and financial loss tied to a €2.2 million ($2.5 million) French property deal.
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April 17, 2025
EHRC To Update Legal Guidance After Watershed Sex Ruling
The equality watchdog is making moves to update legal guidance on single-sex spaces following Wednesday's ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court that the legal definition of sex in anti-discrimination law covers only biological sex amid calls to update critical legislation.
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April 17, 2025
Ex-Burberry Designer Can Expand ADHD Discrimination Case
A Burberry fashion design school graduate who alleged that having meetings in his workplace was disability discrimination because he has ADHD was granted permission on Thursday to expand his case — but only if he provides more details.
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April 17, 2025
BoE Insurance Reforms Could Harm Pension Deal Prices
New freedoms that would allow insurers to invest more easily in a wider range of instruments could lead to reduced pricing for pension funds approaching the bulk purchase annuity market, a broker has said.