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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
9 March 2017
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime: the latest
7 March 2017 marked the first anniversary of the implementation of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime. However, rather than coming with cake and candles, this birthday was celebrated with the introduction of the next phase of the regime.
6 March 2017
Data Protection – practical guidance from recent case law on subject access requests
We have previously published our ‘Top 10 Tips’ for both making and responding to subject access requests (“SARs”) under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”).
Two recent cases - Holyoake v Candy and CPC Group Limited and Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP – considered a number of issues that are important in practice. Of particular interest is how this effects the circumstances in which SARs can (or cannot) be legitimately resisted. We have drawn together the key lessons learned, which complement our earlier guidance.
28 February 2017
IWD: Access to justice for working mums: so near and yet so far
It almost goes without saying that a woman's home and family life can directly, and indirectly, impact her career. As we wrote about last year, the Women’s Equality Committee (WEC) published a report on pregnancy and maternity discrimination (see here and here). The report included some shocking findings. The number of expectant and new mothers who felt they had been pushed out of their jobs following their pregnancy or maternity leave has almost doubled since 2005, and 77% of women reported negative experiences at work related to their pregnancy or maternity.
6 February 2017
Courier case: are we anywhere near the end of the road or just on our way?
The decision (dated 5 January 2017) in the recent cycle courier case Dewhurst v CitySprint UK Limited that received TV coverage last month is not strictly speaking an authoritative judgment. But it does evidence a direction of travel, following as it does the hugely well published judgment in the Uber case last October (Aslam and Farrer v Uber B.V. and others). Please pardon the analogy!
2 February 2017
The GDPR: What do employers need to be doing now?
The General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) will come into force on 25 May 2018. This might feel like a long time away on a cold winter’s morning, but ensuring your business is ready to comply by that date is unlikely to be a “quick fix”. The GDPR is complex and, as you will see from our blog series, broad ranging in its scope. In this blog, I’ve summarised what I believe will be the 8 key employment related issues for businesses as they ready themselves for the changes to the data protection regime, and the key immediate action points to consider.