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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
16 October 2014
Freeze your eggs, not your career progression
This is the subliminal message being given to employees of Facebook and Apple in the US, following the announcement this week that these companies are giving female staff the opportunity to delay starting a family by paying for them to freeze their eggs.
30 September 2014
Legal update - TUPE: does a location change mean employees can bring constructive and automatically unfair dismissal claims?
There has been real anxiety amongst employers (particularly outsourced service providers) in recent years regarding the ability of employees in a TUPE transfer to bring constructive and automatically unfair dismissal claims based on a change in their working location. However, the recent case of Cetinsoy & ors v London United Busways Limited illustrates that even under the law previously in force prior to the amendments to TUPE brought into force from 31 January 2014, it did not necessarily follow that a location change in the context of a TUPE transfer meant that the affected employees could establish constructive and automatically unfair dismissal.
30 September 2014
Legal update: Bonuses – the element of discretion
In the recent case of Brogden and another v Investec Bank plc, the Court considered the exercise of discretion in relation to bonus payments.
15 September 2014
Social media at work – when enough’s enough
Social media is increasingly becoming an issue for employers, with its ever-growing popularity and its consequential impact on all areas of individuals’ lives. It’s clear that social media is here to stay as part of both social and work life, and employers need to know what action they can take against an employee who commits social media related misconduct.
5 September 2014
Managing difficult characters in the workplace - how do you solve a problem like Mario?
Following Liverpool FC’s £16m offer, Mario Balotelli (former striker at AC Milan) will spend this season at Anfield; but only if he behaves. Described by José Mourinho as unmanageable (and famous for *that* video clip involving a troublesome training bib…), Balotelli is a controversial figure, having clashed with most of his managers during his brief career.
An edited version of this article first appeared in HR Magazine in September 2014.
