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June 11, 2025
Nearly 80% Of Trustees Plan To Access Pension Surplus
More than three-quarters of retirement savings plan trustees have said they are planning to use new powers floated by the government that will allow them to distribute surpluses tied up in their schemes, a consultancy has said.
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June 10, 2025
Virgin Atlantic Beats Flight Attendant's Disability Bias Claims
An employment tribunal has tossed a flight attendant's suite of disability discrimination and harassment claims against Virgin Atlantic Airways, finding no evidence that her rare genetic condition caused her day-to-day issues.
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June 10, 2025
Underwriters Back Ethnicity, Disability Pay-Gap Reporting
A British trade group for underwriters said Tuesday that it backed recent government plans to introduce mandatory reporting on ethnicity and disability pay gaps, but said policymakers should ensure data is collected safely to preserve anonymity.
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June 10, 2025
Amazon Whistleblower Gets Second Shot At Unfair Firing Claim
A disabled Amazon whistleblower won a second shot at his unfair dismissal claim against the tech giant on Tuesday, after an appellate judge agreed that a lower tribunal jumped the gun by tossing his case.
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June 10, 2025
Gay Mexican Chef Harassed With Deportation Threats
An employment tribunal has ruled that a British restaurant owner harassed a gay Mexican chef by stereotyping him as unreliable and threatening to tell the Home Office that he was sexually harassing colleagues.
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June 10, 2025
J&J Spinoff Had 'Shoddy' Process But Didn't Discriminate
Johnson & Johnson spinoff Kenvue did not discriminate against a Black manager when it overlooked him for a promotion, even though the process was a "sham," a tribunal said in a ruling released Tuesday.
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June 09, 2025
Physiotherapist Wins £20K After Boss Slashed Working Hours
A physiotherapist has won £20,000 ($27,100) after convincing a tribunal that his former company consistently failed to meet his contractual entitlement to 37.5 hours of paid work per week.
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June 09, 2025
Investment Biz CEO Hit For £2.8M Over Exec's Drinks Loan
A former executive at a U.S. subsidiary of a London investment fund is suing the firm and its founder for about $3 million after they allegedly failed to repay a short-term loan to cover the costs of the company's investment in a drinks company.
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June 09, 2025
Ex-Commerzbank Analyst Denies Faking Sex Assault Claims
A former Commerzbank analyst on Monday fought claims that he lied to a court by making false sexual assault allegations in his failed harassment case against the bank, telling a London court he was being truthful.
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June 09, 2025
Trans Worker's Claim Over Missed Deadline Gets Tossed
An employment tribunal has thrown out a transgender woman's claim against the justice secretary after ruling that she had missed the deadline to bring her case.
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June 09, 2025
Phoenix Group Denies Cutting Ex-SunLife CEO's Pay By £9M
Insurance business Phoenix has denied short-changing the former chief executive of its SunLife subsidiary by £8.9 million ($12.1 million), telling a London court that his "extremely generous" £15.4 million payout was fair.
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June 06, 2025
Chancery Pauses Meta Privacy Suit For EU, Ireland Actions
A Delaware court on Friday paused a pension fund stockholder suit seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc. that led to a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from European authorities.
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June 06, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen MGM and the owners of the "Addams Family" trademark sue a private equity firm, two Cambridge colleges file for injunctions against Pro-Palestine student protest groups and a former NBA player brings a claim against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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June 06, 2025
Muslim Ex-Cop Loses 'Snog, Marry, Avoid' Bias Claim
An employment tribunal has ruled that Derbyshire Police didn't harass a former police constable when colleagues included him in a game of "snog, marry, avoid" because the inappropriate questions weren't linked to his Asian ethnicity or Muslim beliefs.
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June 06, 2025
Network Rail Worker Wins 2nd Shot At Disability Bias Claim
A Network Rail worker who struggled to navigate a complex tribunal process and missed significant filing deadlines won extra time on Friday to appeal after a tribunal acknowledged his mental health challenges and evolving standards for handling late appeals.
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June 06, 2025
Darts Champ Banned As Director Over Unpaid £450K Tax Bill
A former darts world champion has been banned from running companies for five years after his business failed to pay more than £450,000 ($610,000) in tax, the Insolvency Service has revealed.
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June 06, 2025
Condé Nast Denies Pic Editor's Race Discrimination Claims
Magazine giant Condé Nast denied allegations of racial discrimination and harassment on Friday, arguing that complaints by a former Wired magazine photo editor of micromanagement and alleged aggressive behavior by security staff were not connected to her race or sex.
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June 06, 2025
UK To Launch Delayed Second Phase Of Pensions Review
The government said it will soon launch the delayed second phase of its pensions review, in what experts hope could be the biggest shakeup for the sector for 20 years.
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June 06, 2025
UK Pensions Bill To Transform Trustees' Role, Watchdog Says
Britain's retirement savings watchdog has said it will look to other regulators and governance standards for guidance to ensure that pensions trusteeship is ready for the "transformational" impact of reforms that have recently been announced.
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June 06, 2025
UK Floats Legislative Fix For Virgin Media Pensions Case
The government has said it will push through legislation to deal with the legal fallout for pension trustees from a landmark Court of Appeal ruling in 2024.
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June 05, 2025
UK Pension Assets Hit £3.2T Amid Shift To Private Markets
The total value of U.K. pensions grew by 11% in 2024 to £3.2 trillion ($4.3 trillion), the Pensions Policy Institute has said, noting a movement to private market investment in a "period of transition" in Britain.
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June 05, 2025
Wetherspoons Harassed Manager Off Sick For Mental Health
A Wetherspoons manager won his discrimination and harassment claims against the pub Thursday, with an employment tribunal ruling that he was subject to punishment at work due to his mental health conditions.
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June 05, 2025
Former Exec Must Pay £450K From Pension To Settle Debt
A London judge has ruled a company can access the pension fund of a fired managing director to cover £450,000 ($612,000) he was supposed to pay to settle claims that he poached clients.
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June 05, 2025
Caribbean Job Applicant Gets 2nd Shot At Gov't Bias Suit
A second appellate judge has sent a Caribbean job applicant's race bias claim against the government's health and social care department back to the tribunal after the case was revived by the Court of Appeal.
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June 05, 2025
Axiom Staffer Wins Claim Over Dismissals Amid Firm Collapse
A former employee of Axiom Ince Ltd. has won a tribunal claim over the collapsed firm's failure to carry out a redundancy consultation before mass dismissals, with a judge granting her an unspecified monetary award.