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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
8 August 2017
Implications of GDPR and new Data Protection Bill for employers
Data protection legislation rarely leads the 10 o'clock news. It was with great media fanfare, however, that the Government announced the new Data Protection Bill yesterday. This Bill represents the most comprehensive evolution of data protection rights in 20 years. The heart of these new rules is European through and through. The Data Protection Bill will essentially mirror the provisions of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which employers will be obliged to comply with in any event.
2 August 2017
Where now for tribunal fees?
Employers will have to ensure they follow best practice and guidance, and the law, in managing their workforce.
27 July 2017
What the employment tribunal fees ruling means for business
The introduction of Employment Tribunal fees in July 2013 was handled extraordinarily badly by the Government right from the start. There was inadequate consultation at the time, and insufficient care was taken when establishing the level at which they were ultimately set. Even advocates for the introduction of fees often privately admitted that they were set too high. So the surprise is not that the Supreme Court has quashed the Fees Order, as it has now done, but that it took the Courts so long to get to that point.
17 July 2017
Whistleblowing and the public interest - clarity at last or further down the rabbit hole?
When is a disclosure related to a personal employment situation, also made in the public interest? This was the crux of the question to be decided by the Court of Appeal in the first case on this subject matter to go before it, Chesterton Global Limited v Mohamed Nurmohamed. And puzzle-lovers everywhere will be thrilled to learn that the answer “does not lend itself to absolute rules”. So although the concept of “the public interest” has, through its foray so far through the Tribunals, shrunk and grown like Alice in Wonderland, it turns out that it’s not a numbers game after all. Instead, the question of whether a disclosure is in the public interest “depends on the character of the interest served by it”. Curiouser and curiouser…
17 July 2017
The Taylor Report and the five key changes it proposes
The long awaited Taylor Report is here. Led by Matthew Taylor (Chief executive of the Royal Society of the Arts), it was commissioned by the prime minister last October to consider how employment practices need to change in order to keep pace with modern business. The scope of the review was wide ranging and the final Taylor Report itself is substantial. In order to help SME employers make sense of it, we have considered the most practical things you need to know about it, as well as giving our take on whether the report is, overall, a success.