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February 12, 2025
Pension Holders OK With AI Customer Support, Survey Shows
U.K. retirement savers are amenable to the use of artificial intelligence in customer services for pension provision, citing AI's advantages of round-the-clock availability, automation and improved accuracy, a study has found.
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February 12, 2025
Gowling Steers £250M Pension Deal For Machinery Co.
A U.K. machinery dealership has passed £250 million ($311 million) of its pension liabilities to Standard Life, the insurer said Wednesday, in a deal advised by law firm Gowling WLG.
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February 12, 2025
Christian Worker Wins Free Speech Appeal Over Anti-LGBT Posts
An appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Christian woman fired by the school where she worked for sharing anti-LGBT social media posts was discriminated against for her religious beliefs, giving a second wind to a growing trend for people to seek legal protection for potentially offensive beliefs.
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February 11, 2025
Met Office Process For Tackling Sexual Misconduct Upended
A London court ruled Tuesday that the Met's process to pull clearance for police officers accused of sexual misconduct is unlawful, leaving the force in what it called "a hopeless position" to tackle unfit officers after Wayne Couzens' rape and murder conviction.
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February 11, 2025
Tribunal To Consider If FCA Has Equality Duty In Cum-Ex Row
The U.K.'s Upper Tribunal will hold a preliminary hearing to decide whether the Financial Conduct Authority has a duty to not discriminate when it fined and banned a cum-ex trader from the industry, according to a tribunal decision published Tuesday.
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February 11, 2025
Uber, Bolt Drivers To Strike On Valentine's Day Over Pay Cuts
Unionized drivers for Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee will log off their apps for six hours on Valentine's Day in a bid to improve working conditions and "poverty pay," having voted to take a stand in November 2024.
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February 11, 2025
Tesco Wins 2nd Shot At 'Relevant Facts' In Equal Pay Case
Retail giant Tesco Stores Ltd. has won its appeal to reopen arguments on what facts are relevant when comparing the jobs of warehouse workers with more than 47,000 shop floor staff members who have sued for equal pay.
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February 11, 2025
MPs' WhatsApp Scandal A Cautionary Tale On Privacy At Work
The sanctioning of two Labour members of Parliament for offensive comments made in a group chat is a reminder that what happens on WhatsApp is not private, employment law experts have warned.
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February 11, 2025
Pension Providers Step Up Illiquid Investments In UK
The largest defined contribution pension providers are aiming to allocate up to 40% of their illiquid portfolios to U.K. assets, a consultancy said Monday, after years of pressure from the government to encourage more domestic investment in long-term projects.
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February 11, 2025
Gender Pension Gap Set To Keep Rising, Analysts Predict
Some 23% of men aged 16 and above are actively contributing to their work-place defined contribution pension plans, compared with only 19% of women, a financial services consultancy said Tuesday, adding to fears that the retirement savings gap between the genders is growing.
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February 11, 2025
Pension Schemes 'Healthier' Since 2022 Bond Crisis
More than half of the pension schemes in Britain are likely to "run on" because of improvements in funding since the liquidity crisis caused by a bond market crash three years ago, a professional services company has said.
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February 10, 2025
Voters Want Employment Rights Bill, TUC Poll Suggests
Voters across the British political spectrum "overwhelmingly support" measures in the Employment Rights Bill to improve their access to sick pay, work flexibility and regular hours, according to a poll the Trades Union Congress released Monday.
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February 10, 2025
Boehringer Didn't Mistreat Fired Muslim Staffer, Tribunal Says
An employment tribunal has dismissed a former sales representative's claims that Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd. discriminated against him for being a Muslim, since the job the pharmaceutical giant supposedly passed him over for was ultimately offered to another Muslim.
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February 10, 2025
Solicitor Struck Off For Secretly Working For Multiple Firms
An ex-employee of London firm Connect 2 Law was struck off the roll of solicitors Monday for misleading the firm about the hours she worked and for being paid by multiple firms for the same hours, with a disciplinary tribunal saying her behavior was "a clear breach of trust."
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February 10, 2025
Former Avis Staffer Fails To Revive Unfair Dismissal Claim
An appeal tribunal has refused to revive a former Avis employee's unfair dismissal claim, ruling that an earlier tribunal did not wrongly skip over potential procedural flaws in his sacking.
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February 10, 2025
Pension Deal Adviser Isio Buys Rival Broking Specialist
Pension advisory business Isio Group Ltd. has formally confirmed its acquisition of rival insurance and risk settlement specialist K3 Advisory Ltd. for an undisclosed fee.
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February 07, 2025
Pharmacy Chain Says Seller Inflated Value In £10M M&A Deal
A Yorkshire-based pharmacy chain has brought a £9.9 million ($12.3 million) claim in a London court against the previous owners of a group of pharmacy companies it acquired, alleging they made dishonest statements about the group's finances.
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February 07, 2025
Balloon Marketer Loses Sex Bias Claim Over Awards Snub
A marketing executive has lost his claim alleging that a Christmas party remark revealing that the winner of an award was female was discrimination, with the tribunal finding he was later sacked for refusing to return company property amid a disciplinary probe.
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February 07, 2025
Pregnant Nurse 'Singled Out' For Redundancy Wins £51K
An employment tribunal has ordered a Manchester health clinic to pay £51,217 ($63,751) to a nurse it made redundant based solely on the fact she had become pregnant.
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February 07, 2025
HSBC Seeks To Quash Discrimination, Whistleblowing Claim
HSBC urged the Employment Tribunal on Friday to toss out a claim from a former compliance manager for disability discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal against the bank, saying her claims had no real prospect of success and should not be allowed to move to a hearing.
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February 07, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Investec Bank PLC sue two diamond tycoons, London florist Nikki Tibbles file a claim against an "imitator company," a direct descendant of the Cartier family launch a claim, and a Coronation Street actor hit footballer Joe Bunney with a defamation claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 07, 2025
Pension Plans Urged To Eye Bulk Annuity Sustainability
The U.K. retirement savings watchdog has told pension trustees to weigh sustainability guidelines when they enter into a bulk annuity deal.
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February 06, 2025
DWP Staffer Loses Disability Bias Claim Over Office Days
The Department for Work and Pensions has beaten a slew of disability bias claims brought by a current employee because her remote work needs clashed with her office-based role, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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February 06, 2025
Ex-Bank Exec Fired For Hotel Spend Can't Sue CEO, GC
A Manchester bank's former chief commercial officer can't revive her claims against the chief executive officer and two other senior officials after already agreeing to withdraw them, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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February 06, 2025
Visas Driving Migrant Labor Abuse, UK Watchdog Warns
Sponsored visa schemes are the most likely cause of a rise in labor exploitation, the U.K.'s equality watchdog has said in a report to the United Nations.