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UK government announces more changes to Employment Rights Bill

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The UK government announced further changes to the Employment Rights Bill. These include a ban on NDAs that seek to prevent workers speaking out about discrimination and harassment. Changes to the fire and rehire rules...more

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The UK Employment Rights Bill: Where Are We Now?

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The Bill introduced 28 reforms to UK employment laws when it was published in October last year and, since then, various amendments have been made. In this article, we have selected a handful of what we consider the most...more

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Understanding Employment Terminations: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and Poland

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Termination of employment contracts is a critical aspect of labor law in both the UK and Poland, ensuring that employers and employees alike are aware of their rights and obligations in the event of contract dissolution....more

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Employment Rights Bill: Crucial Updates for UK Employers Ahead of Final Commons Vote Tomorrow

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As anticipated, the Employment Rights Bill (ERB) continues to evolve — the latest development being the release of an amendment paper last week. But what do these latest changes really mean for U.K. employers?...more

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Cross-Border Legal Perspectives: Comparing the UK and Germany's Approaches to Unfair Dismissal

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Welcome to our new bi-monthly series, where we compare employment law and practice from an international perspective, drawing on the experience of local and international employment lawyers who deal with these issues every...more

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Employment Rights Bill: What Compliance Officers Need to Know

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Compliance officers, take note: The U.K. government will be introducing two new bills in its next Parliamentary session that portend to have significant implications for employers. In May, the Labor Party published its “Plan...more

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Labour’s Manifesto and Employment Law - What Can Employers Expect?

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This morning Labour launched its election Manifesto which, by implementing its “Plan To Make Work Pay” published last month, includes major employment law reform. The Plan, now supported by today’s Manifesto, is clear that...more

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Employment Terms - A View From Both Sides of the Pond

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As businesses look to expand their operations globally, we are increasingly seeing HR leaders taking a strategic view on how they want to engage their workforce across different jurisdictions. There is a greater push from...more

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UK HR Two Minute Monthly: September 2023

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Our September update includes cases on whether a transgender employee was discriminated against for being subject to a “gender specific” insult, the extent to which employers should enquire about employees’ disabilities in...more

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UK Government Provides Details on Non-Compete Three-Month Limit

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The UK government has provided further color on its proposed rule to limit non competes to a period of three months post termination.  The UK government has published its full response to consultation....more

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UK Follows US FTC Proposal and Issues its Own Non-compete Proposals

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The UK government on May 10, 2023, announced its intention to limit the length of post-employment non-compete clauses (i.e., restrictions prohibiting an employee from going to work for a competitor or to start a rival...more

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Impermanent - employer could dismiss and re-engage pay protected employees

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The Court of Appeal in England and Wales decided that an employer was entitled to dismiss and offer to re-engage employees on new terms in order to remove pay protection it had originally referred to as “permanent”. The...more

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Promises, promises - High Court prevents employer dismissing and re-engaging staff

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The High Court of Justice for England and Wales has prevented an employer from dismissing employees and offering to re-engage them on new terms. As the employer was seeking to remove a right to enhanced pay that it had...more

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UK High Court Halts Deployment of ‘Fire and Rehire’ Intended to Change Terms of Employment

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The High Court of England and Wales in USDAW & Others v Tesco Stores Limited granted an injunction on 3 February preventing an international retailer, Tesco, from deploying “fire and rehire” to phase out an employee benefit....more

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Avoiding fire and rehire - ACAS publishes guidance

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Using “fire and rehire” as a way to implement changes to terms and conditions of employment has become increasingly controversial in the UK in recent years. In October the government blocked legislation that would have made...more

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UK HR Two Minute Monthly: post-termination restrictions; discrimination and victimisation claims; right to respect for private...

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Our January update considers recent developments in employment law, including cases on post-termination restrictions, interim relief for discrimination and victimisation claims, and the right to respect private life. We also...more

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International Lawyers Network: Temporary Layoffs

This guide offers an overview of legal aspects of temporary layoffs in the requisite jurisdictions. It is meant as an overview in these marketplaces... This guide describes the law in force in the requisite jurisdictions...more

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Top 10 Developments and Headlines in Trade Secret, Non-Compete, and Computer Fraud Law for 2019 & 2020

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Continuing our annual tradition, we have compiled our top developments and headlines for 2019 & 2020 in trade secret, non-compete, and computer fraud law. Here’s what you need to know to keep abreast of the ever-changing law...more

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Employment News: PCPs, NDAs, unfair dismissal

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Turning a blind eye – one-off act not a PCP - In Ishola v Transport for London the Court of Appeal confirmed that it was not a provision, criterion or practice to require an employee to return to work before a proper...more

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UK Supreme Court Revises Test for Evaluating Post-termination Restrictions

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To much fanfare and the great excitement of many employment lawyers, the UK Supreme Court recently delivered its first judgment on employment post-termination restrictions for a century, in Tillman v. Egon Zehnder. The court...more

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First UK Supreme Court Decision on Restrictive Covenants for 100 years

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The Supreme Court in the UK, the highest court in the country, last week ruled on a restrictive covenant case for the first time in 100 years [Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 (3 July 2019)]. It has clarified...more

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U.K. Employment Law Update: Disciplinary Proceedings, Compensation on an Unfair Dismissal and Religious Discrimination

Do Disciplinary Proceedings Have to Wait Until a Criminal Investigation Is Completed? In North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v Gregg [2019] EWCA Civ 387, the Court of Appeal considered whether conducting disciplinary...more

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U.K. Employment Law Update: Collective Redundancies, Post-Termination Restrictions and Disability Discrimination

Collective Redundancies: What Is an “Undertaking Controlling the Employer?” In Bichat v Aviation Passage Service Berlin GmbH & Co KG [2018] C-6117, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered the meaning of an...more

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Employment news - November 2018

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Informed choice – choosing English law relevant to jurisdiction - In The British Council v Jeffery and Green v SIG Trading Ltd the Court of Appeal confirmed that choosing English law to govern an employment contract is a...more

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U.K. Employment Law Update: Rising Employment Tribunal Claims, Serious Employee Misconduct and Who Is the True Employer

A Year on: The Continued Rise of Employment Tribunal Claims - The U.K.’s Ministry of Justice has published its quarterly Employment Tribunal statistics for April to June 2018. These quarterly statistics are of particular...more

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