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Employment UK
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April 11, 2024
Failure To Address Group Chat Jokes Pushed Worker To Quit
Blackpool Council forced an employee to resign after it failed to formally investigate her complaints about a "deluge" of inappropriate WhatsApp group messages that made her view the workplace as hostile, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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April 11, 2024
Squire Patton Advises Broadstone Buy Of Credit Risk Co.
Broadstone said on Thursday it had acquired credit risk company Vestigo Partners Ltd., in a deal steered by Squire Patton Boggs and Harrison Clark Rickerbys.
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April 11, 2024
Solicitor Struck Off For Misleading Client Over PI Claim
A former Slater and Gordon personal injury lawyer who admitted that he misled a client about the status of her claim for more than 15 years was struck off by a tribunal on Thursday.
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April 11, 2024
Pension Schemes Moving Toward Net Zero, Watchdog Says
Britain's pensions watchdog said in a review published Thursday that retirement savings schemes have moved closer to achieving net-zero emissions standards in their portfolios by updating investment strategies and boosting allocations to low-carbon funds.
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April 11, 2024
Squire Patton Steers £130M Mitsubishi Pension Deal
Insurer Just Group said Thursday it has signed off on a £130 million ($163 million) buy-in transaction for a scheme sponsored by Mitsubishi Chemical UK Ltd. in a deal guided by Squire Patton Boggs LLP.
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April 10, 2024
No Merit To Autonomy Whistleblower Claims, Auditor Says
A Deloitte partner testifying in a California criminal trial over claims that former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch and finance director Stephen Chamberlain duped HP into buying the British tech company for $11.7 billion said Wednesday that auditors concluded that whistleblower allegations by a finance department executive were meritless.
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April 10, 2024
Former Judge Says Post Office Prosecutions Made No Sense
A former senior judge who oversaw a mediation scheme between the Post Office and people it wrongly prosecuted based on faulty IT data said the organization's case "didn't make sense," as he gave evidence to the inquiry into the scandal on Wednesday.
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April 10, 2024
Author 'Blacklisted' For Anti-Trans Views Loses Status Appeal
An author whose contract was canceled after she expressed anti-transgender views online cannot revive her discrimination case, as an appeals court dismissed her claim that she was legally employed by her publisher.
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April 10, 2024
Insurer Aviva Expands Bulk Purchase Pilot For Small Pensions
Insurance giant Aviva said Wednesday it has launched a streamlined bulk purchase annuity service to support smaller pension schemes with assets of less than £100 million ($126 million) to de-risk their plans.
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April 10, 2024
Pensions Watchdog Spurs Trustees On Climate Transition
The Pensions Regulator on Wednesday urged trustees to consider official guidance for transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero emissions standards.
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April 10, 2024
Mishcon Apprentice Showed 'Egregious Disregard' To Tribunal
An employment judge has dismissed a disability discrimination claim brought against Mishcon de Reya LLP by a former solicitor-apprentice at the firm after she missed the tribunal hearing to go on a trip abroad for her birthday.
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April 10, 2024
Chelsea FC Unfairly Booted Staffer Amid Assault 'Cover-Up'
Chelsea Football Club unfairly fired a groundsman after he appeared to send 1,600 anonymous emails claiming the club covered up a colleague's alleged assault of the groundsman, a tribunal has held, but it declined to award him damages after ruling he was behind the emails.
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April 10, 2024
Compensation For Poor Pensions Advice At Record Low
Compensation for retirement savers who were wrongly advised to transfer out of their defined benefit pension has hit a record low, a consultancy said on Wednesday.
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April 10, 2024
Lifeboat Fund Opens Probe Into British Steel Pension Adviser
The compensation program for financial services said it has opened an investigation into an advice firm in connection with the British Steel Pension Scheme scandal.
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April 09, 2024
'You're Going To Lose These People,' Judge Tells Lynch Atty
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Tuesday chided a Steptoe partner representing former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch in his criminal fraud jury trial, saying that his hourslong questioning of a Deloitte partner shouldn't go on much longer, or "you're going to lose these people."
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April 09, 2024
NHS Failed In Adjusting Schedule For Nurse With Crohn's
Scotland's phone healthcare service has been ordered by a Glasgow tribunal to pay £22,277 in compensation to a nurse for failing to make reasonable adjustments for her Crohn's disease by allowing her to work only night shifts.
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April 09, 2024
Ex-Employee Says Post Office Fought Exoneration Efforts
A former subpostmaster who led a fight to exonerate innocent people prosecuted by the Post Office and wrongly convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting — based on faulty IT data — said the organization was determined to "protect the brand at all costs," as the inquiry into the scandal resumed Tuesday.
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April 09, 2024
Pension Scheme End-Game Options Rising, Consultancy Says
A rise in funding means U.K pension schemes have more end-game options, consultancy Broadstone said Tuesday, as the aggregate surplus of thousands of defined benefit schemes increased to £455.5 billion ($578.4 billion) by the end of March.
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April 09, 2024
Worker Sacked For Posting Facebook Meme Wins £15K
A tribunal has awarded an employee of a lighting manufacturer almost £15,000 ($19,000) after concluding that her boss unfairly sacked her for re-posting a work-related meme on Facebook.
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April 09, 2024
Insurance Director Denies Inducing Employees' Defection
The director of an insurance startup incubator has denied allegations that he induced a managing general underwriter's employees to violate their duties when they left to found a new business, saying he believed the establishment of the new company was lawful.
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April 09, 2024
Gov't Urged To Drop Plans For UK Pension Consolidator
The government should abandon plans to transform the Pension Protection Fund into a state-backed consolidator of smaller retirement plans, a consultancy has warned.
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April 09, 2024
Gov't Urged To Ban Cash Incentives For Pension Switching
The government should ban pension providers from offering cash incentives for savers to switch plans because the practice encourages people to ignore the "fine print" and move over to a worse option, new research by a provider of retirement savings plans suggests.
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April 08, 2024
Ex-Autonomy Exec Says Boss's Invoice Ask Caused Concern
A former Autonomy finance employee took the stand Monday in the criminal fraud trial of ex-CEO Michael Lynch and finance director Stephen Chamberlain, telling a California federal jury that he was "not comfortable" with one of Chamberlain's invoice requests and was sacked after raising concerns about accounting irregularities.
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April 08, 2024
Council CEO Unlawfully Warned Against Strike, Tribunal Rules
A local council boss violated worker protection laws when he sent a "highly unusual" email to staff, an employment tribunal has ruled, concluding it was intended to convince them not to vote in favor of an impending strike.
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April 08, 2024
BT Unfairly Sacked Disabled Worker, Tribunal Rules
A British Telecommunications PLC worker who was forced to medically retire due to her disability was unfairly dismissed through an "unreasonable" procedure, a tribunal ruled.
Expert Analysis
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4 Questions About Whistleblowing In The UK And Beyond
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement of its biggest-ever Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, Chris Warren-Smith of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP discusses whistleblowing in financial service industries in different jurisdictions with other Morgan Lewis attorneys based all around the world.
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Revamping Contracts For GDPR: 3 Ways To Prepare
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation requirements — which take effect May 25 — create a substantial hurdle for thousands of companies worldwide and affect millions of vendor contracts, which now need to be reviewed, amended and potentially renegotiated, say Mathew Keshav Lewis and Zachary Foreman of Axiom Law.
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Keys To Corporate Social Responsibility Compliance: Part 1
2018 may be the year that corporate social responsibility compliance becomes a core duty of in-house legal departments. Not only have legal requirements proliferated in recent years, but new disclosure requirements and more regulation are on the horizon, say attorneys with Ropes & Gray LLP.
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A Guide To Anti-Trafficking Compliance For Food Cos.
Despite the 2016 dismissal of federal human rights cases against food companies in California, a similar class action — Tomasella v. Hershey Co. — was recently filed in Massachusetts federal court, and it’s one that companies in the sector should watch closely, says Markus Funk of Perkins Coie LLP.
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Human Rights Benchmarks: A Primer For In-House Counsel
A number of corporate institutions and nongovernmental organizations have partnered together to “benchmark” how peer companies compare to each other in the area of human rights compliance. The reputational damage that these studies can cause should not be underestimated, say Viren Mascarenhas and Kayla Winarsky Green of King & Spalding LLP.
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Basic Human Rights: Whose Job Is Enforcement?
The cases of Jesner v. Arab Bank and Doe v. Cisco Systems pose different legal tests under the Alien Tort Statute. But these decisions could hold major consequences for environmentalists, human rights activists and even individuals who have turned to ATS to go after transnational corporations, says Dan Weissman of LexisNexis.
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Cos. Should Note Guidance From Gov'ts On Human Rights
Recent legislative and courtroom developments in the U.K., the U.S. and further afield may have a significant impact on human rights compliance requirements for companies doing business internationally, say attorneys with Covington & Burlington LLP.
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Preparing For UK Litigation As A US Lawyer
Counsel fees, issue fees, risk of loss and the “additional” cost of a barrister mark significant differences between the U.K. and U.S. legal processes. The good news is that the bond between the U.K. and the U.S. arising out of our common history and law renders retaining and working with U.K. counsel seamless and rewarding, says Richard Reice of Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney LLP.
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Whistleblower Protection: When Private Turns Public
In Chesterton v. Nurmohamed, a U.K. appeals court recently found that disclosing a breach of a worker's contract may satisfy the public interest requirement for whistleblower protection if a sufficiently large number of other workers are affected. This decision may cause some concern for well-known employers, say Emma Vennesson and Katherine Newman of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.
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Uber May Have Met Its Waterloo In Europe
Recent developments in Europe suggest that Uber’s business model — built on its claims that it is a digital platform between consumer and driver, not a transportation company, and that its workers are merely independent contractors, not employees governed by local labor laws — may be approaching collapse on the continent sooner than anticipated, says Thomas Dickerson of Herzfeld & Rubin PC.
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Harmonizing US And UK Workplace Dress Codes
Given recent publicity surrounding workplace dress codes for women in both the U.S. and U.K., it's likely the issue will be subject to greater scrutiny going forward. Companies with an international reach must exercise particular caution when seeking to coordinate workplace dress codes across the business as considerations may differ widely, says Furat Ashraf of Bird & Bird.
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Top 5 Business And Human Rights Concerns For Companies To Monitor
Businesses are being bombarded with information about their responsibilities toward global human rights and other nonfinancial efforts. According to Covington & Burling LLP attorneys Christopher Walter and Hannah Edmonds, U.K. businesses should be actively monitoring five key developments.
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FCA's Work In Progress: Individual Accountability
In the case of the U.K. accountability regime, the sea change seems to have been more about the Financial Conduct Authority sending a message to firms, leaders and the public that things would be different — rather than replacing an ineffective regime. We anticipate a change within the financial services sector, as individuals are likely to want to eat more carrots and feel fewer sticks, say members of Taylor Wessing LLP.
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Conflict Minerals Compliance: What To Do Now
In the final part of a three-part series on conflict minerals compliance, Michael Littenberg at Ropes & Gray LLP discusses practical compliance tips for this cycle and the next in light of past and expected trends in conflict minerals compliance.
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UK Modern Slavery Act: Public Shame In The Supply Chain
Businesses are increasingly expected to respect human rights wherever they operate. Though light on government regulation, the U.K. Modern Slavery Act is designed to engineer pressure from consumers, investors and the media, which could ultimately be more effective at driving up standards than the threat of legal enforcement action, says Richard Tauwhare at Dechert LLP.