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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
8 March 2019
Pitfalls for employers: dismissals and TUPE transfers
The recent Court of Appeal case of Hare Wines Ltd v Kaur is a reminder of the caution that should be exercised by employers when carrying out dismissals either before or after a TUPE transfer. In this case, an employer attempted to argue that the dismissal in question was carried out for “purely personal reasons” unrelated to the TUPE transfer, an argument which was dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
8 February 2019
Disclosing the past - how much does the regulator need to know?
On 30 January 2019, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the eagerly awaited matter of R (on the application of P, G and W) (Respondents) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another (Appellants) [2019] UKSC 3 relating to the disclosure of criminal records.
24 January 2019
At last we are moving away from a state of limbo over NDAs
Ndas: the new duty to act ethically?
16 January 2019
One year on from the President’s Dinner, what has changed?
Nothing has changed and yet everything has changed. One year on from the President’s Club dinner in London and some 15 months since Alyssa Milano kick-started the #MeToo movement on Twitter in October 2017, some have questioned what has actually changed in practice. After all, there has been no culture-changing legislation as we have had in recent years with disability and age, and the concept of sexual harassment has existed since the 1980s.
10 December 2018
Ted Baker's ‘forced hugs policy’: Lessons for other employers
The instance of Ted Baker offers some important lessons to other employers as they seek to update their approach in a post-#MeToo era. One can only imagine what it was like for the HR department at Ted Baker last week, where the employee petition against a ‘forced hugs policy’ has focused much attention on the company’s culture.