Businesses should take note of an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case that highlights the importance of formalising employment relationships. The EAT held that an employment tribunal erred in finding that a director and shareholder, who performed part-time work for a company without pay for at least three years, was an Read more…
The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 It seems appropriate that Friday the 13th is the implementation date for the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. For some retailers, the consequences of not getting it right could be a horror show. Let’s call them Read more…
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has published details of its updated policy on enforcement of the national minimum wage, which includes the revised scheme for naming and shaming employers, and the new system of increased financial penalties of up to £20,000 for the most serious cases. If Read more…
Businesses will welcome a Court of Appeal decision that dismissed an appeal from a Christian employee who claimed they had suffered indirect discrimination on grounds of religious belief by being required to work on Sundays. The court held that the employer was successful in justifying the requirement to work on Read more…
The Court of Appeal has held that clauses in a share purchase agreement providing that, in the event of a breach of the seller’s restrictive covenants, the buyer’s obligation to pay deferred consideration would cease and the buyer would be entitled to acquire the remainder of the seller’s shares at Read more…
The Attorney General has published guidance to help prevent social media users from committing a contempt of court. The notes, which are available on www.gov.uk and on Twitter, have previously only been issued to print and broadcast media outlets on a “not for publication” basis. They are designed to make Read more…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that an employer breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010, when it chose not to pay for an employee with work-related stress and depression to have private psychiatric counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy. Although a Read more…
A recent Court of Appeal decision underlines how useful restrictive covenants in employment contracts can be in protecting an employer’s business. The court dismissed the appeal of a former employee and director who had been ordered to pay at least £50,000 in damages, following a breach of his post-termination restrictive Read more…
Employers should take note of what appears to be the first case to consider the effect of a successful internal appeal on a prima facie case of indirect sex discrimination. The EAT held that an employee had not suffered indirect sex discrimination when her flexible working request, which was initially Read more…
The Department for Communities and Local Government has introduced a new empty property rate relief scheme for newly built commercial property. Relief will be available for new properties completed after 1 October 2013 and before 30 September 2016 that are unoccupied for the first 18 months after completion of their Read more…