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UK: Whistleblowing - sequence of communications protected
The EAT has confirmed that employees seeking to establish whistleblowing protection can rely on multiple communications taken together to establish a …
UK: Termination - scope of "without prejudice" protection
The EAT has confirmed that there is clearly a "potential dispute" giving rise to "without prejudice" protection where an employer has announced an …
UK: Disability - employers cannot outsource judgement on whether individual disabled
Employers should apply their own minds to the statutory test for deciding whether an employee is disabled and should not simply accept occupational …
UK: Disciplinary process - implied right to fair process enforceable by injunction
The Supreme Court has ruled that there is an implied contractual right to a fair disciplinary process, a serious breach of which could enable an employee …
UK/Hong Kong: Injunctions and Trade Secrets
The English High Court recently considered the test to be applied when deciding whether to grant an interim injunction against a former employee to …
UK: amendments to TUPE finalised and in force 31 January 2014
Parliament has now approved the final regulations amending TUPE and collective redundancy law, with effect (in most part) from 31 January 2014; a …
UK: Definition and protection of trade secrets and undisclosed know-how to be harmonised across Europe
To counteract a growing problem of trade secret theft and provide a clear and uniform level of protection across the EU, the Commission has …
UK: TUPE reforms to come into force on 31 January 2014
On 17 December 2013, BIS published its seventh statement of new regulation, which confirms that the new TUPE regulations (so far only published in draft …
UK: New publications
New Government guidance for employers and interns about their right to fair pay
UK: Appeal news- collective redundancy, calculation of holiday pay and commission
The appeal in the case of USDAW v Woolworths on the trigger for collective redundancy consultation obligations for multi-site employers has been listed …
UK: TUPE - scope of service provision change exclusion
The service provision change clauses in TUPE exclude from its scope changes of contractor where the client intends the activities to be carried out in …
UK: Deduction from wages - unlawful if pursuant to repayment clause amounting to a penalty
It is unlawful for an employer to make deductions from wages pursuant to a clause providing for the repayment of recruitment and training expenses …
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