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Employment Edit – what's new in employment law

Outsourcing: safe to assume TUPE applies?; the Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a call for evidence about how religion or belief may have affected experiences in the workplace.
28 August 2014

TUPE update

A recent case Horizon Security Services Limited v (1) Ndeze (2) The PCS Group shows that TUPE does not always apply to outgoing contractors.
28 August 2014

The importance of making reasonable adjustments during a redundancy process

In London Borough of Southwark v Charles, the EAT recently upheld a Tribunal decision that an employer failed to make reasonable adjustments for a disabled employee in a redundancy exercise.
28 August 2014

MeyGen announces funding for first phase of tidal renewable energy project

Long-standing Burges Salmon client MeyGen has secured the funding from The Crown Estate and the Scottish Government for the first phase of its Pentland Firth tidal renewable energy project.
22 August 2014

High Court reminder that privilege can be lost due to iniquity

Privilege is a protection from having to hand over relevant documents which the law permits as an exception. It can be withdrawn where an attempt is made to abuse it for wrongful purposes.
22 August 2014

FCA's £8.4m fine highlights risks of outsourcing

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined an insurance firm £8.4 million this month for failing to treat customers fairly over the sales by outsourcing companies of accident insurance.
21 August 2014

Errors on CHAPS payment requests

The courts have been considering who, if anyone, is liable to a customer when CHAPS transfers go wrong.
21 August 2014

Chancellor’s plans to make UK the 'FinTech capital of the world'

Earlier this month, at the launch of the new UK FinTech trade body ‘Innovate Finance’, Chancellor George Osborne announced his plans to make the UK “the FinTech capital of the world”.
19 August 2014

The taxation of payments under interim relief orders

In MT v HMRC, the FTT held that a payment made to a person who has made a protected disclosure pursuant to an order for interim relief under s.129 should be exempt from tax up to the £30,000 threshold.

18 August 2014

Auditing the grocery supply chain

In September 2014, the major supermarkets will present to the Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon, their future proposals for the auditing of supplier accounts.
15 August 2014

Employment Edit – what's new in employment law

New Health and Work Service will be launched in late 2014; The draft Shared Parental Leave Regulations have now been laid before Parliament; McMillan v Airedale and severe disciplinary penalties.
14 August 2014

Disciplinary penalties following internal appeals

In McMillan v Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, the Court of Appeal recently decided that an employer could not impose a more severe disciplinary penalty following an internal appeal. Why?
13 August 2014

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