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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
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.
26 January 2017
Entrepreneurs and small businesses need to prepare now for the new data protection regime
“We’re all going to have to change how we think about data protection”, the Information Commissioner noted at a lecture for the Institute of Chartered Accountants last week (full text here). Those that are familiar with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will know that she is absolutely right about this. Brexit is not going to “intervene” in that respect - the GDPR will have come into force before the UK leaves the EU. In any event, for those that want to do business in the EU (for example, by offering goods or services to individuals in the EU), they will need to comply.
17 January 2017
What employment law developments does 2017 have in store for HR professionals?
It’s 2017; you’ve now returned all of your unwanted presents, your Christmas tree is lying abandoned outside and you’ve decided on a date for your new diet and exercise regime to begin. So is there anything to look forward to in 2017: a year of Trump, various European elections and the impending threat of Brexit?