London Underground has defeated a claim from a former employee that it sacked him for blowing the whistle on issues linked to asbestos exposure, convincing a tribunal that ill health was the real reason he was fired.
London Underground has defeated a claim from a former employee that it sacked him for blowing the whistle on issues linked to asbestos exposure, convincing a tribunal that ill health was the real reason he was fired.
The former chief executive of trading technology business Finalto didn't use the company as "a vehicle for fraud" by signing a sham employment contract, he said in evidence at a trial where he and another executive are seeking more than $19 million in unpaid benefits.
A National Health Service board in Scotland acted reasonably by sacking a veteran nurse amid accusations he had behaved inappropriately toward a nonverbal patient, a tribunal ruled in a decision published Thursday.
HM Revenue & Customs lacked sufficient evidence to justify more than £1.5 million ($2 million) in penalties on a securities trading company for careless and deliberate inaccuracies on its returns linked to a tax avoidance scheme involving an employee benefit trust, the Upper Tribunal ruled.
The government should be cautious about any plan to fix Britain's growing housing crisis by allowing workers to tap into their pensions savings early, a retirement savings provider said Thursday.
The U.K. retirement savings watchdog called on Thursday for greater industry feedback on sweeping value-for-money regulations for workplace benefit plans.
Health insurers oversaw a record £4 billion ($5.38 billion) in individual and workplace private medical claims in 2024 — up 13% from £3.57 billion in 2023, the Association of British Insurers said.
Savings and investment group M&G has said it penned £1.5 billion ($2 billion) in pension deals in 2025, almost 65% more than the amount it disclosed the year before.
