Employers in England, Scotland and Wales are now required to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees in the course of their employment. New legislation, the Worker Protection (Amendment of...more
11/15/2024
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Equality Act ,
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ,
International Labor Laws ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Suppliers ,
UK ,
Vendors ,
Wage and Hour
The regulatory landscape for UK employers has evolved significantly over the second half of 2023. New legislation is in force or is due to come into force over the next 12 months, covering a variety of employment-related...more
12/19/2023
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Diversity ,
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Equality Act ,
Flexible Work Arrangements ,
Holiday Pay ,
Holidays ,
Home Health Care ,
International Labor Laws ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
UK ,
UK ICO ,
Wage and Hour
The last few months have seen some important and significant developments in UK employment law. Amongst other things, we have seen new guidance published on ethnicity pay gap reporting, positive action, and employee rights to...more
Mr D Thompson v Informatica Software Ltd-
In a recent appeal at the EAT an individual (the “appellant”), who had been a senior employee of the employer (ISL), was found to have been fairly dismissed for gross misconduct...more
11/11/2021
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Bribery ,
Code of Conduct ,
Employee Misconduct ,
Employee Training ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Gifts ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Public Officials ,
Termination ,
Tribunals ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act
One year ago, the UK Government announced that the changes to the off-payroll working rules (also known as IR35) (the “Rules”) would enter into force on 6 April 2021 rather than 6 April 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19...more
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations, and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any of these...more
12/15/2020
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Bribery ,
British Airways ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
FSCS ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Life Sciences ,
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
Modern Slavery Act ,
National Crime Agency (NCA) ,
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) ,
Popular ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) ,
Trafficking ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act
After more than seven years, the EU Parliament formally endorsed the much-anticipated new directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers (the “Directive”). This was the final...more
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations and regulatory enforcement from the last three months.
We commented last month that the scale of the impact of the...more
9/24/2020
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Bribery ,
Corruption ,
DPA ,
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Espionage ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Fraud ,
Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime ,
HMRC ,
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Money Laundering ,
National Economic Crime Center (NECC) ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Sanctions ,
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA) ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to Business Crime, Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement from the last three months. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any of these...more
6/23/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
EU ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
NCAs ,
NCSC ,
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) ,
Popular ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs)
The announcements this week about the closure of 125 Frankie and Benny’s outlets, 35 Monsoon Accessorize shops, and the thousands of resulting job losses highlight the difficulties facing businesses in the wake of the...more
English courts have been busy passing judgment on UK companies that have allegedly violated business and human rights (BHR) obligations overseas. UK businesses (or large corporations with a presence in the UK) with operations...more
Insolvency intersected with the UK government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in an application to the High Court by the administrators of restaurant chain Carluccio’s. Considering the government’s Coronavirus Job...more
In Various Claimants v. WM Morrison Supermarkets [2020] UKSC 12, the Supreme Court has reversed the Court of Appeal decision and held that Morrisons supermarket is not liable for the serious (intentional) data breach by its...more
On 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson announced that the UK would effectively be going into “lockdown” for a period of at least three weeks, in order to tackle the spread of coronavirus. This means closing all non-essential shops...more
In the UK Government’s latest Budget, delivered on 11 March 2020, it was announced that the changes to the off-payroll working rules (also known as IR35) previously announced at Budget 2018 would apply to the private sector...more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared the current outbreak of the new coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China as a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern.” As more countries...more
Recent UK enforcement actions highlight the risks to companies of relying on third-party providers to obtain marketing consents from individuals on their behalf. A claims management company has been separately fined by both...more
The UK regulatory Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) came into force in March 2016 to replace the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Approved Persons Regime (APR) for firms that are subject to dual regulation...more
In a bid to keep English law up to date with technological advances, the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill 2018 has passed the committee stage at the House of Lords. The proposed legislation is intended to allow...more
HOT TOPICS FOR MULTINATIONAL EMPLOYERS: PRIVACY IN THE WORKPLACE, THE EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION, AND BREXIT -
Increasing digitalisation of the workplace means that many routine activities nowadays entail the...more
It was only a couple of years ago, on March 27, 2015, that a jury rejected Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination claims and rendered a defense verdict in favor of her former employer, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital...more
10/10/2017
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Entrepreneurs ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Google ,
Investors ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Personal Liability ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Technology Sector ,
UK ,
Unruh Civil Rights Act
On April 6, 2017, the UK mandatory gender pay reporting regime will come into force under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 (the “Regulations”). The UK has had a voluntary gender pay gap...more