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Whistleblowing Job Applicants, Discrimination Outside Employment, and Liability for HR Consultants, Plus a News Roundup - UK HR...

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Our employment law update for May covers a new EAT case on whether job applicants can bring whistleblowing claims, whether a blatant racial insult falls outside the scope of the Equality Act 2010 because it was not made “in...more

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The FCA's non-financial misconduct survey: decoding the findings

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In February 2024, the FCA sent a survey to 1,028 wholesale firms (insurers, market intermediaries, banks and brokers) asking about recorded incidents of non-financial misconduct between 2021 and 2023. With a 96% response...more

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Be Global: Employment Law in 5 - October 2024

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5 developments to read for October in less than 5 minutes - Prepare: Extensive overhaul of UK workers' rights - The UK government published its Employment Rights Bill 2024. The Bill contains 28 new measures, many of which...more

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Employment in the news | October 2024

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The Employment Rights Bill felt like the only game in town in October. Since its publication, the government has launched four consultations on different aspects of the Bill. The duty to prevent sexual harassment came into...more

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Employment Rights Bill, Whistleblowing, and Sex-based Discrimination

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This week we summarise three very recent developments in employment law, one involving the Employment Rights Bill (ERB) and two new cases....more

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UK HR Two-Minute Monthly: May 2024

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Our May update includes a case on whistleblowing where the claimant’s belief in the disclosures was questioned along with whether decision makers who knew little or nothing about the disclosures could be blamed for those who...more

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UK HR Two-Minute Monthly: April 2024

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Our April update includes a case on AI facial recognition software that allegedly discriminated against black people, a case where an individual carrying out a dismissal did not have enough knowledge of protected disclosures...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - March 2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Employment Flash - February 2024

In this issue, we discuss upcoming regulatory changes as well as recent court decisions with far-reaching implications, including case law on the need to replace share awards on a TUPE transfer and a UK Supreme Court ruling...more

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UK HR two-minute monthly: April 2023

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Our April update includes cases on religious belief discrimination in the education sector, with a school chaplain preaching to pupils his views on same-sex marriage, a case considering whether the potentially disruptive...more

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All change? UK government reviews whistleblowing laws

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In March 2021, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced that it would review the UK’s whistleblowing framework but did not give a timescale for the exercise. BEIS’ successor, the Department...more

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Employment law predictions 2023: Key themes for the year ahead

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Following the success of our Employment Law Horizon Scanning webinar that took place earlier this year we have released our predictions for 2023....more

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Ethics, Risk and Compliance Roles in the U.K. – Part 1

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We were delighted to interview Kevin Parle – Fellow of the International Compliance Association (ICA) and Deputy Chair of the Data Protection Forum – for insights and observations of whistleblowing roles within U.K....more

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Whistleblowing: Can you disentangle a protected disclosure from the manner in which it is made?

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In some cases, yes; so said the Court of Appeal in the recent case of Kong v Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited, which upheld an Employment Tribunal decision to dismiss a claim for automatic unfair dismissal brought by a...more

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UK HR Two Minute Monthly: TUPE transfers to multiple transferees, public interest test in whistleblowing cases and unfair...

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Our April 2021 update includes a case which signals a potentially significant change in approach to TUPE transfers involving multiple transferees. We also consider a recent whistleblowing case in which it was considered that...more

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Employment News: whistleblowing, equal pay, compensation

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Employment newsletter In this weeks issue: Beating around the bush – disclosure did not have to identify legal obligation Gone fishing – disclosure in equal pay claims All change – tribunal limits and pay gap reporting ...more

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Brexit – Post-transition Q&As for employers

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The end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 has reshaped the landscape for employers. In our updated Q&As publication, we look at the impact for employment law and at considerations for in-house counsel and HR...more

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Lifting the Lockdown: Returning to the Workplace Under the UK Government’s Recovery Plan and Safe Working Guidance

On 11 May 2020, the UK government published its COVID-19 Recovery Plan that sets out its proposal to exit the COVID-19 lockdown. Under the Recovery Plan, employees who can work from home should continue to do so, however...more

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Employment News: whistleblowing; unions; holidays

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It's not what you know – dismissal for whistleblowing despite dismissing manager's belief - In Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti the Supreme Court has reinstated a decision that an employee was dismissed because she had blown...more

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Compliance Perspectives: The EU Whistleblower Directive

Earlier in 2019, the European Parliament adopted a new EU Whistleblower Directive. To better understand these new rules and their implications we sat down for a discussion with Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor at...more

International Lawyers Network

Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: What Scottish Companies Need To Know

We include the 2018 chapter in its entirety for reference following the 2019 update. Background - As part of last year’s Labour & Employment group paper, "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: What Your Company Needs to...more

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Employment News: Disability, Whistleblowing, Age

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Perception is king – rejection for hearing impairment perceived disability discrimination - In The Chief Constable of Norfolk v Coffey the Court of Appeal confirmed that rejecting a transfer request from someone with a...more

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Employment Newsletter: collective redundancies; maternity dismissals; reconciliation

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New arrival – proposals to extend redundancy protection for parents - The government is consulting on whether to extend redundancy protection for pregnant women and new parents....more

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U.K. Employment Law Update: Transfer of an Undertaking Hits a Roadblock, Whistleblower Disclosures and the Latest in Employment...

Did a Temporary Break in Activities Prevent the Transfer of an Undertaking? In Colino Sigüenza v Ayuntamiento de Valladolid (C-472/16), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered whether a five-month break in...more

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UK Employment Law Briefing: February 2018

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EQUAL PAY - We covered the Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations (“the Regulations”) in May last year. As we identified then, the interesting issue in the short term deriving from the Regulations is the extent to which...more

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