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UK: New consultations on whistleblowing and childcare
The Government has published a call for evidence on the current whistleblowing legislation. It is seeking views by 1 November 2013 as to whether …
UK: New cap on unfair dismissal compensatory award will apply from 29 July 2013
The Government has confirmed that the change to the cap on the unfair dismissal award will apply from 29 July 2013 (subject to parliamentary apprioval …
UK: Employment law reforms - updates to 2013 timetable
The new protection for pre-termination negotiations introduced by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act will come into force on 29 July 2013. This …
UK: Whistleblowing in the workplace - Your Views
As you may know, the whistleblowing charity, Public Concern at Work, recently published a consultation paper to examine the effectiveness of existing …
UK: Employment law reforms enacted
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill finished its passage through Parliament and received Royal Assent on 25 April 2013. BIS has also …
UK: Employment law reforms - revised timetable
The Government has published revised timings for some of the employment law changes in the pipeline, available here. It appears that restricting …
UK: Post-employment conduct: whistleblowing disclosures protected; victimisation not prohibited by Equality Act
Case law has established that subjecting an employee to detriment post-employment for a whistleblowing disclosure made during employment is …
UK: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: amendments to whistleblowing, financial penalties on employers, dismissal for political opinion/affiliation
The Government has proposed, and the House of Lords approved, a number of amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: The …
UK: Timetable for employment law reforms
BIS has published its Fifth Statement of New Regulations confirming plans to implement changes to the Equality Act 2010 (removing third party harassment …
UK: Partners - LLP members are not "workers" protected from whistleblowing detriment
The Court of Appeal has ruled that LLP members are not "workers" able to claim for detriment for whistleblowing, overturning an EAT decision reported …
UK: Partners - LLP equity member may be "worker"; Lawson v Serco test on territorial jurisdiction applied to discrimination and whistleblowing claims
The EAT has ruled that a (junior) equity partner of a law firm, who was entitled to a profit-related element of remuneration and a guaranteed level of …
UK: Employment law reforms - Queen's Speech and consultation on new discrimination law proposals
A number of Government proposals announced in recent months (see here) - and one new proposal - have made their way into this month's Queen's Speech and …
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