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UK: Rethink on Boardroom Pay
The National Association of Pension Funds and Hermes Equity Ownership Services have called for a major rethink on executive pay and its alignment with …
UK: Taxation of claw-backs - Tribunal allows an employee to use a repaid bonus to reduce his income tax liability; opportunity for companies to operate claw-back on a tax efficient basis
Taxation of claw-backs: Tribunal allows an employee to use a repaid bonus to reduce his income tax liability; opportunity for companies to operate …
UK: Children and Families Bill
On 4 February 2013 the Government published the Children and Families Bill which will introduce the new shared parental leave regime and the …
UK: Non-executive directors – new ICSA guidance on care, skill and diligence
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators has issued new guidance on the liability of non-executive directors in the context of the …
UK: New consultations on (i) proposals to amend TUPE (ii) early conciliation of claims; new occupational health proposals
The Government yesterday published two new consultations on proposed reforms to employment law. The first includes very significant proposed changes …
UK: Government confirms plans for settlement agreements and unfair dismissal compensation cap
The Government has today published its response to its 'Ending the employment relationship' consultation (summarised here). The …
EU gender directive passes subsidiarity test
As previously reported, on 14 November 2012 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a gender Directive which plans to introduce a 40% …
EU: Employers may need to accommodate an individual's religious belief, even if it is not held by others
The European Court of Human Rights has this morning given its judgment in the widely-reported Christian belief cases: Eweida and Chaplin (who were …
Collective redundancy: UK government confirms plans for reform from April 2013
The government has today published its response to the consultation on changes to collective redundancy law. It has announced plans to: …
UK: The £1.7 million lunch - requiring leavers under employee incentive plans to comply with restrictive covenants
A recent High Court case provides useful clarity that companies operating employee incentive plans should be able to link the exercise of a discretion to …
Political belief/affiliation: UK law in breach of human rights
UK law may need to be amended to protect employees from dismissal because of their political beliefs or affiliation. The European Court of Human Rights …
UK: Unfair dismissal: ruling on prior warnings, human rights challenge rejected
Employers can rely on a current prior warning to support a dismissal for misconduct which would not justify dismissal on its own, even where the two …
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