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This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) an analysis by Andrew Osborne, Stephen O’Flaherty and Pip Hague of Lewis Silkin on the...
Immigration analysis: The Home Office has published updated sponsor guidance which expands the scope of right to work checks expected of work route...
Law360: A housing provider has lost its application to strike out claims from unionised workers over a blog post from its CEO offering a pay raise to...
Employment analysis: In McMahon v AXA ICAS, the Court of Session (CSIH) held that payments due under a permanent health insurance (PHI) scheme can...
The government has published proposed new benefit and pension rates for 2024 to 2025 including in respect of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory...
ET1 grounds of claim—indirect sex discrimination[Insert in para 8.2 of claim form ET1:]1The Claimant is a woman and the Respondent is [enter details,...
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving...
Constructive dismissaldismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer...
Can a settlement agreement provide that an employee will withdraw a data subject access request (DSAR)? If a settlement agreement provides that an employee will withdraw a DSAR, can the employer refuse to act on a DSAR subsequently made by that employee on the basis that it is ‘manifestly unfounded’
Can multiple simultaneous disciplinary charges result in multiple parallel disciplinary sanctions, or should a single sanction be the outcome?This questions considers whether, in circumstances where several different disciplinary charges have been brought against an employee at the same time, it is
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
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