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April 03, 2025
GP Surgery Must Rehire Clinician Fired After Whistleblowing
A National Health Service doctors' surgery must reinstate a clinician who lost her job soon after she blew the whistle on the surgery for offering some services without authorization, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 02, 2025
ONS Staff Extend Action Over Office Attendance Policy
Union members at the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday they have again voted to strike over its workplace attendance policies, as the statistics body faces government scrutiny of its performance and organizational culture.
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April 02, 2025
Hospital Operator To Pay £54K For Firing Disabled Worker
An employment tribunal has ruled that U.K. hospital operator Circle Health must pay its former pathology coordinator over £54,000 ($70,000) after it found that her former employer sacked her without attempting to accommodate her postpartum health condition.
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April 02, 2025
Enablers In The Spotlight As First Al-Fayed Claims Emerge
Employers that allow sexual misconduct to go unpunished in the workplace are increasingly likely to be held liable, lawyers warn, as five women who worked for the late billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed launch claims against his estate.
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April 02, 2025
Ex-Ryanair Pilot Fights 'Fiction' Of Contractor Status In Appeal
A former pilot for Ryanair told the Court of Appeal on Wednesday that his contractor status was a "fiction" as he fought efforts from the airline and a staffing company to overturn rulings that he is entitled to equal conditions with Ryanair's directly employed staff.
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April 02, 2025
Management Biz. Loses Costs Bid Over Consultant's Theft
An employment tribunal has refused to force a director to pay the £12,060 ($15,645) that a workforce management firm incurred in defending his claims of unfair dismissal, ruling he didn't sue vexatiously.
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April 02, 2025
Ankle Tag Maker Sues Sacked CEO Over Ties To Shareholders
A company which makes technology for monitoring people remotely has brought legal action against its ousted chief executive, alleging that she lied about her interest in the company's shareholders and stole funds from the business.
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April 02, 2025
FCA 'Thinking Radically' On Savings Welcome, LCP Says
The Financial Conduct Authority "thinking radically" about allowing savers to use accrued pension pots for house deposits is "very encouraging," Lane Clark & Peacock LLP has said.
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April 02, 2025
Gov't Told To Reform PPF On Pension Surplus Extraction Plan
The government must extend the safety net of the Pension Protection Fund if it wants retirement schemes to release up to £160 billion ($207 billion) in surpluses to the wider economy, a think tank warned Wednesday.
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April 02, 2025
'Snow White' Email Shows Staley's Ties To Epstein, FCA Says
The inability of former Barclays boss Jes Staley to remember "now infamous" emails with Jeffrey Epstein undermines his credibility and his attempts to overturn his ban for lying about his ties to the sex offender, the Financial Conduct Authority said Wednesday.
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April 02, 2025
Gov't Confirms Major Delays For NHS Workers In Pension Fix
The government has admitted that hundreds of thousands of people receiving a National Health Service pension will need to wait nearly two years to see their benefits potentially increase.
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April 02, 2025
Ex-NHS Worker Wins Appeal Of Ruling She Was Not Disabled
A former National Health Service administrator has revived her discrimination claim after persuading a London appeals tribunal to shelve an earlier ruling that she was not disabled because of her anxiety and panic disorder.
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April 01, 2025
Ex-CEO Loses Dismissal Case After Going AWOL
An employment tribunal has dismissed a former chief executive's claims that a heating, ventilation and air conditioning manufacturer forced him to resign by blackmailing him into signing onerous warranties before a restructuring, ruling that he had "overplayed his hand" despite his duty to help.
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April 01, 2025
Celtic Football Club Settles Sex Abuse Cases For £1M-Plus
Celtic Football Club has agreed to settle numerous sexual abuse claims brought by former members of the club's boys team for a seven-figure sum, the law firm representing the claimants announced Tuesday.
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April 01, 2025
Reckitt Age Bias Ruling Is 'License To Discriminate'
A retired Reckitt Benckiser executive urged a London appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a tribunal's dismissal of his claim that the pharmaceutical company discriminated against older employees, saying the decision creates a "license to discriminate for large corporations."
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April 01, 2025
UK Workers Get Pay Boost As Minimum Wage Hike Kicks In
The U.K. government's 6.7% national living wage hike took effect Tuesday, representing a pay rise of up to £1,400 ($1,800) per year for over 3 million eligible workers.
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April 01, 2025
Ryanair, Staffing Agency Deny Employing Pilot On Appeal
Ryanair and its pilot staffing agency both denied at an appellate hearing Tuesday being the employer of a pilot who has sued for equal conditions with the carrier's directly employed staff.
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April 01, 2025
Reform Pensions To Tackle Retirement Risks, Think Tank Says
Pension reforms are necessary to ensure that savers can successfully navigate the "risks and complexities" of managing their retirement savings in later life, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned Tuesday.
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April 01, 2025
Spire Healthcare Buys Occupational Health Biz For £3.3M
British medical services company Spire Healthcare said Tuesday that it has acquired Acorn Occupational Health Ltd. for an initial consideration of £3.3 million ($4.2 million), expanding its national footprint.
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March 31, 2025
Employment Bill Toothless Without Funding, Experts Warn
The government's new Employment Rights Bill will create important new rights for workers, but a lack of funding risks leaving an increasing number of unrepresented litigants unable to meaningfully access the justice system, experts have told Law360.
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March 31, 2025
Telecom Manager Can't Use Privileged Exchange In Bias Claim
An employment tribunal has ruled that an ex-staffer can't rely on a privileged document she mistakenly received from her bosses' solicitors because they weren't scheming against her and scrapped her entire case over her "malicious" actions.
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March 31, 2025
Judge Sanctioned For Comments To Tribunal Members
Britain's judicial conduct watchdog has sanctioned an employment judge for telling the nonlegal members of a panel that they were there to make the complainant "feel satisfied."
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March 31, 2025
Primark Chief Steps Down Over Probe Into Social Conduct
Primark's parent company said Monday that the high street clothing chain's chief executive has resigned following an internal investigation by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP into his behavior toward a woman.
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March 31, 2025
NHS Beats Union Rep's Appeal Over 'Monkey' Remark Liability
A London appellate judge has held that a National Health Service trust isn't liable for a staffer's "monkey" remark toward a Black colleague, upholding a ruling that the comment was related to union activities rather than the staffer and the Black colleague's day jobs.
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March 31, 2025
Bank Says Caribbean Decision Blocks £415M VAT Fraud Case
A Caribbean bank argued in court Monday it could not be sued in England over a £415 million ($537 million) value-added tax fraud, because the matter had already been resolved by a judgment in Curaçao.
Expert Analysis
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Trends For Encouraging Employee Whistleblowing
There appears to be little doubt that there is an emerging international consensus that whistleblowing is a legitimate tool for dealing with economic fraud and should be encouraged as one way of stemming such wrongdoing, say Eric A. Savage and Anita S. Vadgama of Littler Mendelson PC.
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U.S. Incentives, EU Employees And Conflicts Of Law
U.S. employers frequently offer senior employees who are based overseas the opportunity to participate in incentive and bonus arrangements that contain provisions protecting the employer’s interests. Any doubt concerning the enforceability of such provisions in the EU now appears to have been resolved in the employees’ favor, say Christopher K. Walter and Mark M. Poerio of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP.