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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
9 March 2018
Important Changes to the Taxation of Termination Payments
From 6 April 2018 important changes will be coming into force in relation to the way termination payments are taxed.
5 March 2018
Subject Access Requests under the GDPR: What employers need to know
Employers need to be aware of the enhanced rights employees will have to request and access data under the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’).
5 March 2018
IWD: Women: like men, only cheaper – understanding unequal pay and gender pay reporting
Equal pay and the gender pay gap are grabbing headlines at the moment. Yet, whilst both relate to the disparity of pay between the sexes, they are often confused for one and the same thing. In fact, the two issues refer to quite different problems, which arise as a result of quite different factors. In order to understand them, we need to get a few things straight…
15 January 2018
Diplomatic and state immunity – landmark Supreme Court judgments
There is an old saying that goes “You wait ages for a bus, then two come along at once”. State and diplomatic immunity are only rarely the subject of consideration by the highest court in the land. After waiting ages for one case, in October we saw two Supreme Court judgments on diplomatic and state immunity arrive on the same day. These test cases concerned the impact of state and diplomatic immunity on employment claims by domestic workers. They have established that diplomatic and state immunity in the employment context are not absolute and can successfully be challenged.
12 January 2018
Dealing with complaints of sexual harassment at work
What happens when an employee claims sexual harassment in the workplace? Offering practical advice to employers on how to handle such complaints.