Settlement agreements - smart tips for employers
Law Huw Cooke and Grace Malone consider strategies to keep settlement agreement costs down and ways to make the package attractive to the employee at little additional cost to the employer.
28 September 2015
Shared grid connections ; Do they work?
The prospect of shared grid connections for energy generating facilities has become a hot topic in recent months with increasing pressure on grid capacity and more projects wanting to connect.
17 March 2015
Serious Crime Act 2015 provides protection from civil liability
Section 37 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 which came into force on 1 June 2015 is likely to be welcomed by those operating in the regulated sector. We take a closer look.
08 June 2015
Shaw Review into Network Rail’s future: important issues, carefully stated
Network Rail’s future structure will shape the industry's next stage of post privatisation development. We look at Shaw’s investigation into the options for Network Rail’s structure and governance.
14 April 2016
Shared parental leave
A new shared parental leave and pay system for children due or adopted from 5 April 2015 allows more flexibility on childcare during the first year. Our briefing explains the changes.
01 May 2014
Shared parental leave
The new shared parental leave and pay system for children due or adopted from 5 April 2015 allows parents and adopters more childcare flexibility. Read how employers must adapt to these changes here.
14 May 2015
Sickness absence: four steps to spotting and dealing with malingerers
How do HR manage employees whose absence patterns suggest they are malingerers? Catharine Cooksley, looks at recent legal cases and provides four steps employers can take to deal with the problem.
27 April 2016
NuclearCONNECT - Structuring joint ventures in the supply chain
Nick Graves and Edward Barratt of Burges Salmon discuss the recent coverage that continues to highlight the importance of joint ventures in the nuclear industry.
21 January 2015
Obesity discrimination - how long do we have to wait?
The obesity epidemic that is sweeping the developed world. The NHS views obesity as its biggest challenge, killing millions of people and costing billions. Cooke investigates recent case law here.
13 August 2014
Should I stay or should I go? (Revisited) - further automatic suspension upheld
Further to our briefing, Procurement Challenges - should I stay or should I go?, the English High Court has stayed another contract award. We consider what this means here.
13 November 2014
Odds and ends: EC regulation, new SIP 16 consultation, extent of S.236 powers and more
This article covers developments key to practitioners such as reform of the EC Regulation, the consultation on the new-look SIP 16, and the Comet decision on the extent of the court’s S.236 powers.
22 January 2015
Off and Running - The Capacity Market
The Capacity Market is a government initiative forming part of the Electricity Market Reform programme. The primary aim is to ensure security of supply. Phillips and Patel consider this here.
09 December 2014