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Global Employer Guide (Updated)

We are pleased to make available this year's edition of the Global Employer Guide. The guide provides a concise, easy to read summary of employment law across numerous countries. Our updated release reflects the changes...more

Global Employer Guide

K&L Gates is proud to release the latest update of our Global Employer Guide. Created to complement our global employer solutions service, the interactive guide provides a quick, concise summary of the main employment law...more

Workplace Wrap: Autumn/Winter 2017

Workplace Wrap is our magazine covering the core areas of Australian workplace law: industrial relations, employment, equal employment opportunity and workplace health and safety. Workplace Wrap articles condense some of...more

Case Alert: Negative Oral Reference Found to be Discrimination Arising from Disability

In Pnaiser v NHS England and Coventry City Council, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the "EAT") ruled that to make a successful claim of disability discrimination, the employee need show only that the disability was part of...more

Employee Fairly Dismissed for Facebook Comments Posted Two Years Earlier

What happened? In Smith v British Waterways Board the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) decided that an employee was fairly dismissed for posting derogatory and disparaging comments on Facebook despite the comments being...more

Case Alert: No Implied Duty to Disclose Allegations of Misconduct in Absence of Express Contractual Obligation

What happened? In The Basildon Academies v Amadi, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the "EAT") decided that an employee was not under an implied duty to disclose allegations of misconduct to his employer where there was no...more

Case Alert: Ignorance is No Defence for Failure to Collectively Consult

What happened? In E Ivor Hughes Educational Foundation v Morris and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the "EAT") upheld the Employment Tribunal's decision to make the maximum protective award of 90 days’ pay to an...more

Case Alert: Employee Unfairly Dismissed for Going to Work Smelling of Alcohol

What happened? In McElroy v Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, an Employment Tribunal decided that the summary dismissal of a healthcare assistant for coming to work smelling of alcohol was unfair. Mr McElroy was...more

Case Alert: Employee Fairly Dismissed for Contacting the Information Commissioner's Office Against Instructions

What happened? In Barton v Royal Borough of Greenwich, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the "EAT") decided that an employee was fairly dismissed for misconduct after failing to adhere to his employer's instructions not to...more

Collective Redundancies: ECJ Clarifies Meaning of "Establishment"

What happened? Under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (the "Act"), if an employer proposes to make large scale redundancies of 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days...more

Case alert: Failure to interview disabled employee amounted to disability discrimination

In London Borough of Southwark v Charles, the EAT decided that the London Borough of Southwark (the "Borough") had failed in its duty to make reasonable adjustments when it refused to assess by other less formal means the...more

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