Employment UK

  • August 29, 2024

    UK Teetering On Pensions Crisis, Mercer Warns

    The U.K. needs pension reform to avert a looming crisis that threatens a secure retirement for pensioners, according to a report by American consultancy firm Mercer LLC released Thursday.

  • August 29, 2024

    Sky Sports Rugby Pundit Loses Bid To Duck £700K Tax Bill

    Rugby commentator Stuart Barnes has lost his attempt to escape a tax bill of almost £700,000 ($921,000) as a tribunal ruled that he owed the money because a contract between his company and Sky was equivalent to an employer-employee relationship.

  • August 29, 2024

    Veolia Unit Beats Ex-Manager's Race Discrimination Claim

    A former manager at the U.K. subsidiary of resource management giant Veolia has lost a claim of racial discrimination against his ex-employer, as a tribunal found that he was dismissed because of questions about his technical ability and failure to deliver projects.

  • August 29, 2024

    UK Drops Predictable Hours Law To Pursue Stronger Right

    The new Labour government has shelved a law that gives workers the right to request a more predictable working pattern to allow them to pursue a stronger contractual right to the hours they usually work.

  • August 29, 2024

    Pensions Watchdog Calls For Early Take-Up Of Value Rules

    The pensions watchdog urged the country's largest retirement plans on Thursday to adopt draft rules on providing value for money before they are officially implemented to help iron out technical kinks before they are rolled out to the wider sector.

  • August 28, 2024

    Parking Biz Claims Ex-Director Took Data To Set Up Rival

    A parking management provider is suing its former director for allegedly pinching its software and exploiting it to set up and run his own rival company.

  • August 28, 2024

    Memery Crystal Beats Secretary's Disability Bias Claim

    Memery Crystal LLP did not discriminate against a legal secretary with a type of arthritis, an employment tribunal has ruled, finding that the firm did everything within its power to make accommodations for her condition.

  • August 28, 2024

    Ex-Weightmans Pro Struck Off Over Lies And False Emails

    A former Weightmans LLP and Capsticks LLP solicitor was struck off by a tribunal on Wednesday after she admitted lying to her boss about completing work, falsifying emails and concealing the fact she was fired over the dishonesty.

  • August 28, 2024

    Collapsed Forex Broker To Pay Whistleblowing Exec £564K

    A compliance director at a foreign exchange brokerage who reported the firm to the financial services watchdog over its alleged illicit activities has won more than £560,000 ($740,000) after a tribunal ruled the company had unlawfully sacked him.

  • August 28, 2024

    LDI Managers Urged To Influence Gov't Climate Policy

    Liability-driven investment managers ought to be doing more to influence climate policy to protect members' pensions as government debt plays an increasingly large role in retirement savings portfolios, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP said.

  • August 27, 2024

    Law Firm To Pay £109K For Discriminating Against Paralegal

    A former paralegal at a London law firm has won more than £109,000 ($144,239) from the firm after a tribunal found that the firm refused to pay her full salary for more than a year before firing her because of her disabilities.

  • August 27, 2024

    Ex-Rice Co. Execs Deny Exploiting Company Secrets

    Former executives of a British rice manufacturer have denied exploiting the company's confidential business strategies and customer contacts to run a competing business.

  • August 27, 2024

    Next Workers Win Landmark £30M Equal Pay Claim

    A group of retail workers has won a landmark equal pay case against high street fashion chain Next, as the Employment Tribunal ruled that it was unlawful for the company to pay sales consultants, who are mostly women, a lower rate than its warehouse employees.

  • August 27, 2024

    Hong Kong Woman's Asset Freeze Extended Over Fraud Case

    A London judge on Tuesday allowed a freezing order to be extended against a woman accused of defrauding her former employers of 164 million Hong Kong dollars ($21 million).

  • August 27, 2024

    Starmer Warns Of 'Painful' Budget As UK Braces For Tax Hikes

    U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Tuesday of "painful" decisions to plug budget gaps, including tax increases and spending cuts, looming in the Oct. 30 budget statement.

  • August 27, 2024

    Pinsent Masons Steers Insurer On £42M Pensions Deal

    British insurer Just Group said on Tuesday that it has taken on pension liabilities valued at £42 million ($56 million) from a retirement savings plan sponsored by a British farmer-owned dairy co-operative, First Milk.

  • August 27, 2024

    Gov't Urged To Reform Pension Tax To Fill Budget Gaps

    The Labour government should reform £66 billion ($87 billion) worth of pension tax relief to raise extra revenue to help plug the black hole in public finances, a think tank affiliated to the party has said.

  • August 26, 2024

    Uber Hit With €290M Dutch Fine For EU Data Transfers To US

    The Netherlands' data protection authority has fined Uber €290 million ($324 million) on allegations it failed to use a valid mechanism for sending European drivers' personal data to the U.S. for more than two years, a penalty that the ride-sharing provider has vowed to appeal. 

  • August 23, 2024

    Labour Sacking After Antisemitism Leak Not Discrimination

    The Labour Party's governing body did not unfairly dismiss or racially discriminate against a Muslim of South Asian heritage in the aftermath of a damning leaked report on how the body mishandled allegations of antisemitism, a tribunal has ruled.

  • August 23, 2024

    Drone Manufacturer Sues University For Research IP Rights

    A company which makes self-flying cargo aircraft has launched a suit to stop the University of Southampton from taking over the rights to an uncrewed aircraft patent that resulted from a research project between the drone maker and the university.

  • August 23, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen Google sue several Russian media outlets in response to challenges to the tech giant's response to international sanctions, easyGroup bring an intellectual property claim against delivery company Easycargo, and e-money business Nyavo challenge action by the Financial Conduct Authority.

  • August 23, 2024

    Recruiter Claims Agency Wrongly Withheld £20K Commission

    A recruiter told a tribunal Friday that a London agency unlawfully deprived her of approximately £20,000 ($26,400) of commission after she left the business, and claimed that it failed to do "due diligence" to communicate its policy on the matter.

  • August 23, 2024

    Insurer Calls For Gov't Action On Auto-Enrollment Reform

    The new government should "hit the ground running" with changes to automatic enrollment regulation, an insurer has said, as it set out four potential areas of reform that could dramatically boost pension savings.

  • August 23, 2024

    HMRC Can Be Liable For Damage To Biz Shut Over £7.4M Debt

    The tax authority cannot lift a court order that requires it to repay a payroll business damages for losses suffered after it was put into provisional liquidation, as a court found on Friday that it had failed to pursue that action for law enforcement purposes.

  • August 23, 2024

    Events Venue Can Be Liable For Firing By Director, EAT Rules

    An events manager has won her appeal to revive her attempt to hold the restaurant and wedding venue where she had worked liable for a director's decision to fire her.

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