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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
10 July 2015
Financial professionals: don’t bank on your bonus
On 23 June 2015, the FCA and PRA issued their final rules and guidance to implement the proposals set out last year in their Consultation Paper in relation to remuneration. These rules mean that Britain now has the toughest rules on bankers’ pay of any major financial centre. The new rules on deferral and clawback will apply to bonus awards for performance periods commencing on or after 1 January 2016, while various other rules and guidance became effective on 1 July 2015.
9 July 2015
Early Conciliation through Acas proves its worth
The year-old conciliatory service from Acas is helping workers avoid costly employment tribunals, with great results.
Early Conciliation is now more than a year old. It’s the scheme by which employees who intend to issue employment tribunal proceedings must first give notice to Acas, (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) so that it has the opportunity of trying to conciliate between the parties.
Before it came in, many derided it as a potential waste of resources and a mere “paper-pushing” exercise. How wrong those naysayers have proved to be.
This article first appeared in The Times in July 2015.
29 June 2015
Legal update: Religious dress and discrimination in the workplace
This is another case of alleged discrimination around religious dress. It provides a useful indication as to how the Courts will adjudicate these difficult matters should they result in litigation. The case also comes at a precipitous time, given the current debate around the role of religion in society.
11 May 2015
Legal Update: Whistleblowing - the public interest test
Chesterton Global Limited (trading as Chestertons) and another v Nurmohamed
We recently had a new test introduced into the whistleblowing legislation (by Section 17 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013) to reverse the principle in a case called Sodexho. This was the case that established that an employee was able to blow the whistle with respect to a breach of his own employment contract.
11 May 2015
Legal update: Collective redundancies - look at the workplace, not the employer
At the end of April, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave its judgment in the long-running saga concerning the closure of Woolworths and Ethel Austin stores. The judgment is good news for employers as it limits the operation of the rules on collective redundancies.