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Neurodivergence, Discrimination Comparators, Privileged Documents in the Wrong Hands, and a News Round-up - UK HR Two Minute...

BCLP on 7/31/2025

Our employment law update for July covers cases about legal principles tribunals must consider when analysing the ‘substantial adverse impact’ in disability claims, the difficulties in selecting discrimination comparators,...more

UK HR Two Minute Monthly: September 2023

BCLP on 9/28/2023

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

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 12/3/2018

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

Employment News - June 2017 #2

Hogan Lovells on 6/12/2017

Keep it for later – European Court's Advocate General issues Opinion that the right to paid leave can be carried over if employer has not offered it - According to the preliminary Opinion of the European Court in The Sash...more

A Month in UK Employment Law - November 2016

Proskauer Rose LLP on 11/8/2016

Taxation of termination payments draft legislation published - At present, in certain circumstances the first £30,000 of a termination payment is exempt from income tax and national insurance ("NIC"). However, there have...more

Top Tips for Successful Recruitment

K&L Gates LLP on 1/9/2014

Recent surveys have shown that companies of all sizes are optimistic about their ability to expand and create jobs in 2014. With business confidence said to be at its highest since 1994, now is a good time for employers to...more