Employment UK

  • April 23, 2025

    Fieldfisher Hires Pinsent Masons Labor Chief In Spain

    Fieldfisher LLP has recruited the head of Pinsent Masons LLP's labor team in Spain in a bid to build out its employment practice in the country.

  • April 16, 2025

    Bar Owners Who Tried To Kill Dismissal Case Must Pay Costs

    An employment tribunal has ruled that two companies must pay £8,370 ($11,100) to cover a former staffer's costs on top of her unfair dismissal award, ruling that they should not have tried to get struck off the U.K. company register to kill her case.

  • April 16, 2025

    NHS Practice Manager Gets 7-Year Ban For Pension Failings

    A former practice manager at an NHS surgery who did not pay more than £75,000 ($99,330) into the pension funds of staff has been banned from starting a new company for seven years over the failings, a government agency has said.

  • April 16, 2025

    Ultrasound Tech Wins Claim Redundancy Was Planned

    A tribunal has ruled that a sexual health charity decided in bad faith to dismiss the head of its ultrasound department after her absence with COVID-19 but tossed her allegations that the elimination of her role amounted to disability discrimination.

  • April 16, 2025

    Law Firm Scolded For SRA Threat In Race Discrimination Case

    A law firm made a potentially "intimidating" threat to file a Solicitors Regulation Authority report against a potential witness in a former employee's race discrimination claim, a tribunal has said.

  • April 16, 2025

    Ex-Credit Suisse Consultant Appeals Worker Status Ruling

    A former Credit Suisse consultant won a second shot on Wednesday to bring whistleblowing and racial discrimination claims after a London appeals tribunal gave her permission to challenge a ruling that she was not a worker at the bank.

  • April 16, 2025

    UK Savers Favor 'Cautious Approach' To Pensions Investment

    Almost half of savers in Britain want a cautious approach to investment in pension plans, with just 8% willing to invest in high-risk assets, according to research published on Wednesday by a retirement savings platform.

  • April 16, 2025

    Transgender Women Don't Count As Women Under UK Law

    Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday that the definition of a woman in the country's equality law is restricted to biological sex, ruling that it would create an incoherent system of protected characteristics if transgender women were included.

  • April 15, 2025

    Clyde & Co. Must Face Bias Claim From Rejected Applicant

    A woman rejected for training contracts with Clyde & Co. LLP can revive her failed bid to sue the firm for discrimination, a London appeals tribunal ruled Tuesday.

  • April 15, 2025

    Canadian Investigator's UK Employment Claims Dismissed

    An employment tribunal has dismissed a Canadian investigator's claims that a conflict research firm unfairly fired her, ruling that she lacked the necessary U.K. links to benefit from employment protections.

  • April 15, 2025

    Charity Worker Fights To Revive Fraud Whistleblowing Case

    An ex-offender turned charity worker fought on Tuesday to revive his case that a non-profit had him recalled to prison for voicing financial misconduct allegations about the charity's founder, a former Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi lawyer.

  • April 15, 2025

    UK Gender Pensions Gap Widening, PensionBee Finds

    Male customers of PensionBee saved an average of £507 ($671) more in retirement plans than women did in 2024, according to figures published by the retirement savings provider.

  • April 15, 2025

    Schroders Tapped To Manage £2.1B Scottish Friendly Portfolio

    Schroders said Tuesday it has been appointed to manage a £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) portfolio by life insurance mutual company Scottish Friendly.

  • April 15, 2025

    Fintech Biz Unfairly Fired Underperforming Sales Rep

    A financial technology company unfairly dismissed a struggling sales rep by failing to highlight concerns over his performance until a week after it had already cut him loose, a tribunal has ruled.

  • April 14, 2025

    Ex-Mitie Security Manager Fired Over Use Of CCTV Wins £31K

    An employment tribunal awarded a former Mitie security manager £31,600 ($41,650) after the company fired him following a flawed investigation into his unauthorized use of closed-circuit television without clearly setting out its policy or explaining the alleged data breach.

  • April 14, 2025

    Ex-BGC Tax Adviser Admits Contempt In £23M Fraud Case

    A former BGC Partners employee faces a potential jail sentence after admitting before a London judge Monday that he breached restrictions the court imposed after he committed a £23.5 million ($30.9 million) fraud against a subsidiary.

  • April 14, 2025

    Costco OK To Fire Worker For Positive Breath Alcohol Tests

    Costco has defeated a former staffer's claims of unfair dismissal after an employment tribunal ruled that she was "straw clutching" by denying scientific evidence that she had come to work under the influence of alcohol.

  • April 14, 2025

    Pensions Body Warns Of Risks Of AI Adoption

    The U.K.'s tough regulatory environment will mean that artificial intelligence is unlikely to replace pension trustees in key decision-making roles anytime soon, a trade body said.

  • April 14, 2025

    Pension Trustees Warned To Plan Ahead In Dashboard Prep

    U.K. pension plans have been warned to plan for bottlenecks in processing customer data as they prepare to meet deadlines for new government-backed online portals.

  • April 14, 2025

    Squire Patton Guides £120M Pensions Deal For Utilities Co.

    Pensions insurer Just Group said on Monday that it has taken on £120 million ($158 million) in retirement savings liabilities from a plan sponsored by a U.K. water supplier, in a deal guided by Squire Patton Boggs.

  • April 11, 2025

    Gowling Partner Revives Claim Against Ex-Boss At Credit Firm

    A Gowling WLG partner on Friday rekindled her whistleblowing claim against her boss at a credit firm where she previously worked, convincing a London appeals judge that an earlier tribunal was wrong to let the executive off the hook.

  • April 11, 2025

    Teacher Loses Racial Bias, Harassment Claim

    An employment tribunal has thrown out a teacher's claims that staff at a grammar school in southeast England discriminated and harassed her, putting an end to her case after she'd already had allegations that the head teacher committed insurance fraud to pay his solicitors tossed out.

  • April 11, 2025

    UK Urged To Reduce Gov't Interference In Pension Sector

    The U.K. government should consider freeing pension providers to allocate the assets wherever they choose to maximize returns and boost the country's economic growth, an industry association has said.

  • April 11, 2025

    Hilton Settles Hiring Dispute Over Sabbath Observance

    The Hilton Belfast hotel has agreed to pay £10,000 ($13,000) to a man who claimed that the hotel rescinded its job offer because of his Judeo-Christian beliefs, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has said.

  • April 11, 2025

    Guardian Says Actor's Libel Claim Is 'Bizarre' And 'Childish'

    The publisher of The Guardian newspaper argued at the end of a trial on Friday that it was "frankly inconceivable" that stories alleging actor Noel Clarke sexually harassed, abused and assaulted women for about 15 years were the result of a defamation conspiracy.

Expert Analysis

  • Effective Management Of UK Employee Exits

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    This article aims to explain in general terms the protections that apply to employees in the United Kingdom and the choices available to an employer in relation to possible employee terminations — along with the relative risk and costs when deciding how to terminate, says Bettina Bender of CM Murray LLP.

  • Trends For Encouraging Employee Whistleblowing

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    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.

  • U.S. Incentives, EU Employees And Conflicts Of Law

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    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.

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