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Changes to Taxation of Termination Payments: A Degree of Backtracking
Changes to Taxation of Termination Payments: A Degree of Backtracking Plans to tax notice pay from April 2018 will be limited to basic pay only. The Chancellor confirmed in his Autumn Statement that p...
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EAT Guidance on TUPE Service Provision Change Exception
EAT Guidance on TUPE Service Provision Change Exception The EAT has given guidance to tribunals considering an exception to the TUPE service provision change (SPC) rules. In Swanbridge Hire & Sale...
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Injunction forcing employee to remain employed without pay upheld by Court of Appeal
Injunction forcing employee to remain employed without pay upheld by Court of Appeal The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision to grant an injunction to an employer, the effect of which wa...
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The importance of adapting contracts for overseas employees
...contracts for overseas employees The fact that the employment contract of an overseas employee states that it is governed by UK law is a factor that an employment cannot ignore when considering whethe...
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Beth Cooke
...contracts, director’s service agreements, consultancy agreements and staff handbooks. In relation to both employers and employees, she has dealt with employment tribunal litigation, including acting...
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Bank Holidays
...contracts provide that part timers are only entitled to paid time off for bank holidays which fall on their normal working days, this risks a claim that they have been treated less favourably on groun...
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Government Considers Extension of Employment Rights as Part of Employment Status Review
...contracts which offer fewer employment rights and protections, such as worker contracts, have become commonplace. As the economy recovers, it wants to explore extending employment rights to more peop...
Gutierrez and the risk of a red card for employers over disability discrimination
Gutierrez and the risk of a red card for employers over disability discrimination The footballer Jonas Gutierrez is reportedly suing his former club, Newcastle United, for disability discrimination. &...
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No Transfer of Directors' Employment under TUPE on Loss of Company’s Sole Contract
No Transfer of Directors' Employment under TUPE on Loss of Company’s Sole Contract Directors of a charity providing services to a single client did not transfer under TUPE when it lost the contract an...
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Court Refuses Barring Order to Prevent Breaches of Confidentiality
...contracts to protect an employer’s interests and that confidentiality obligations are tightly drafted.
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Employer Not Liable for Discriminatory Term in Permanent Health Insurance Policy
...contracts stated that the benefit was subject to acceptance by the insurer and that Xerox was only liable to make payment to the employee if it had been paid by the insurer. In addition, Xerox was n...
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Employer Not Obliged to Pay for Untaken Flexi-hours on Termination
Employer Not Obliged to Pay for Untaken Flexi-hours on Termination A tribunal should not have implied a term into a dismissed employee’s employment contract that he was entitled to be paid for unused ...
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Changing Terms after TUPE Transfer
...contracts. The client informed the contractors that when those contracts terminated, it would be awarding a single contract for the provisions of both services and would be looking for cost savings ...
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Taxpayer Entitled to Tax Relief on Clawed Back Bonus
Taxpayer Entitled to Tax Relief on Clawed Back Bonus A taxpayer who repaid part of a signing on bonus under a contractual claw back provision was entitled to reclaim the tax paid on the clawed back bo...
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No TUPE Transfer Where Employee Worked Solely for One Client
No TUPE Transfer Where Employee Worked Solely for One Client An employee who spent all of his time working for one client was not “an organised grouping of employees” and so his employment did not tr...
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Employee Lost Right to Claim Constructive Dismissal After 18 Month Delay in Resigning
Employee Lost Right to Claim Constructive Dismissal After 18 Month Delay in Resigning An employee who waited 18 months after complaining of her employer’s repudiatory breach of contract before resigni...
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Effect of Successful Appeal Against Dismissal
Effect of Successful Appeal Against Dismissal The EAT has ruled that a decision on appeal that an employee’s dismissal was unsafe automatically resulted in her employment contract being revived. Th...
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LLP Member Could Bring Whistleblowing Detriment Claim
LLP Member Could Bring Whistleblowing Detriment Claim An LLP member was a worker within the Employment Rights Act 1996 ("ERA") and could therefore bring a claim that she had been subjected to a detri...
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Deliveroo riders are not workers, CAC rules
...contracts received criticism from the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry into self-employment and the gig economy. The CAC emphasised that it did not matter if Deliveroo’s true purpose in construct...
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Employer liable to pay income protection payments not covered by insurance policy
Employer liable to pay income protection payments not covered by insurance policy Long term sickness benefits and insurance The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employer was liable to top up an empl...