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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
11 July 2017
Dublin, Paris, Frankfurt – Five things to think about before agreeing to work abroad
What would you do if your employer asked you to relocate? This blog offers some suggestions to employees – and some pointers for employers trying to anticipate employees’ questions.
4 July 2017
Workers’ rights and the gig economy
The rise of the gig economy has been meteoric in recent years. It has given rise to a string of recent employment tribunal decisions – Uber, CitySprint, Pimlico Plumbers (and soon, Deliveroo). In each case, it was found that the companies had been effectively denying proper rights, such as sick pay and holiday entitlements, to their workers (whom legalisms they hold out to be “self-employed”).
30 June 2017
Running the Marathon – lessons for professional and financial services partnerships
Now that the dust has settled on the Marathon Asset Management LLP (“Marathon”) litigation, which was so long running Pheidippides himself would have been proud, this blog reflects on the lessons for professional and financial services partnerships. Aside from the satisfying nominative determinism, the Marathon cases provide important insights and practical lessons in a number of areas – partnerships, team moves, the protection of confidential information and fiduciary duties.
26 June 2017
Data Protection – 10 further top tips for responding to subject access requests
Not long ago, we distilled a series of recent cases and produced practical guidance (see here and here) for employers on dealing with subject access requests under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“SARs”). These blogs were intended to complement our earlier blog “Top 10 tips for responding to a subject access request”, which was prepared with the Information Commissioner’s (“ICO”) original code of practice in mind. That code of practice has now been re-issued in light of the recent guidance from the courts and can be found on the ICO’s website here. The code itself is lengthy and detailed, but in this blog, we have picked out another top 10 tips from the most useful and practical additions to the revised code.
1 June 2017
FCA and PRA regulatory references - what do the new rules mean in practice?
Earlier this year, the FCA and PRA published new rules regarding regulatory references. Banks, insurers, building societies, credit unions and PRA-designated investment firms (“firms”) are now required to take “reasonable steps” to obtain “appropriate references” for candidates subject to the Senior Managers and Certification Regimes, and their insurance equivalents. The purpose of these rules is to guard against employees with poor conduct records moving freely from one regulated firm to another…so-called “rolling bad apples”. However, their application is proving somewhat problematic.
