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March 19, 2024
Workers Have 'Misplaced' £50B In UK Pension Pots
The growing number of young workers changing jobs and moving to different pensions providers has left more than £50 billion ($64 billion) in U.K. pension pots "at risk of being misplaced" in abandoned or lost accounts, according to analysis published on Tuesday.
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March 18, 2024
Activist Was Harassment Whistleblower, Tribunal Rules
An employee at a bottling company counts as a whistleblower because he told his employer he had witnessed a senior manager inappropriately massage a junior employee, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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March 18, 2024
Axed HMRC Staffer Wins £16K Disability Discrimination Case
HM Revenue and Customs must pay a disabled former employee £15,900 ($20,200) after it unfairly sacked him for gross misconduct and wrote off his claim that his sleep apnea was to blame, a Scottish tribunal has ruled.
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March 18, 2024
Barrister Before Tribunal For Allegedly Dodging Practice Ban
An English legal regulator told a tribunal on Monday that a suspended barrister had continued to practice under the pretense of being a "solicitor's agent" in order to sidestep a ban for sending hostile emails and making false statements to a judge.
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March 18, 2024
PA Unfairly Pushed To Quit Over Underground COVID Fears
A trader unfairly forced his personal assistant to quit after demanding that she continue to work at his house despite her concerns about catching COVID-19 on the London Underground, an appeals tribunal has ruled.
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March 18, 2024
UK Pension Insurers Sign Up To Net-Zero Targets
The bulk annuities insurance sector in Britain has universally adopted net-zero targets for carbon emissions, but analysts warn that there is still more to do in terms of climate stewardship.
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March 15, 2024
Rentokil Should Have Tested Disabled Staffer In New Job
Rentokil failed to make reasonable adjustments for its employee with multiple sclerosis when it declined to offer him a trial period in a less physical role before cutting him loose, a London appeals tribunal has ruled.
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March 15, 2024
Academic Wins Payout After Being Bullied Into Resigning
An academic who resigned after being subjected to "bullying and intimidating behavior" by her line manager has been awarded more than £14,000 by a tribunal.
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March 15, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen Howard Kennedy face legal action by a London hotel chain, former racing boss Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One hit with a breach of contract claim by a Brazilian racecar driver, and a libel row between broadcaster Jeremy Vine and ex-footballer Joey Barton. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 15, 2024
Debenhams Pension Deal Eases Superfund Fears, LCP Says
The step by Clara-Pensions to take on all 10,400 members of the retirement savings plan of collapsed retailer Debenhams in the U.K.'s second-ever superfund deal will ease concerns around transactions in the nascent market, a consultancy has said.
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March 15, 2024
Insurer Calls For Clarity Over National Insurance Funding
The U.K. government must provide clarity over the impact of payroll tax cuts on future funding for state pensions, insurance giant Aegon UK said Friday.
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March 15, 2024
Pension Watchdog Says Poor-Value Plan Initiative Is Working
The U.K.'s retirement savings watchdog said that its fight against poor-value pension schemes is working and that plans are choosing to wind up following government regulations introduced to drive improvements for members.
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March 14, 2024
Judge Breyer Seeks To Boost Security Outside SF Courthouse
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said at a Thursday hearing that he'll meet with the U.S. Marshals Service to press for increased security around the San Francisco courthouse to ensure court staff and jurors' safety, the same day the city was sued over the neighborhood's open-air drug markets.
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March 14, 2024
Army Camp Beats Worker's Claim Over Bullying Commandant
An employment tribunal in Liverpool has tossed a claim by a former U.K. armed forces training camp employee that he was forced to quit because the camp botched a probe into repeated bullying by the camp commandant.
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March 14, 2024
Barclays Beats Race Bias Claims From Cameroonian Ex-VPs
Barclays did not discriminate against three of its former vice presidents based on their ethnicity or Cameroonian nationality, but two of the bankers proved it mishandled their performance reviews in light of disabilities they had, a tribunal has ruled.
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March 14, 2024
LSE Professor's Court Access Restricted After Meritless Claim
A London court has barred a former London School of Economics professor from bringing any more claims for three years, ruling that there was a real risk he would keep litigating despite losing his latest case against dozens of barristers.
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March 14, 2024
Clara Takes Debenhams Pension Scheme In Landmark Deal
All 10,400 members of the retirement savings plan of collapsed retailer Debenhams will have their promised pension benefits restored after Clara-Pensions announced Thursday it would take on the scheme in the U.K.'s second-ever superfund transaction.
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March 14, 2024
Council Victimized Worker With Weekly In-Office Requirement
A local authority in Scotland must pay a disabled employee over £16,000 ($20,376) after an employment tribunal found the council's requirement to work one day a week in the office exacerbated the worker's anxiety and depression.
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March 14, 2024
Aid Charity Fired Lockdown 'Shisha Cave' Whistleblower
A humanitarian charity made an employee redundant in retaliation for her blowing the whistle about colleagues smoking and potentially taking illegal drugs in its offices during a COVID-19 lockdown, a U.K. employment tribunal has ruled.
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March 14, 2024
Advisers Want Tax Reduction For Pensions, Aegon Says
Many British financial advisers want the government to reduce taxes as part of pension reforms following the next general election, insurance firm Aegon UK said Thursday.
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March 14, 2024
Insurer Completes Full Construction Co. Pension Scheme Deal
Insurer Just Group said on Thursday that it has completed a £37 million ($47.3 million) buy-out of a pension scheme sponsored by a leading engineering and construction company, finishing the process that it started in 2013.
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March 14, 2024
CMS Leads Rothesay £6B Buy Of Scottish Widows Portfolio
Pension insurer Rothesay Life said Thursday that it will buy Scottish Widows' £6 billion ($7.7 billion) portfolio of bulk annuities from Lloyds Banking Group PLC, in a transaction guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.
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March 13, 2024
Nurse Mistaken About Filing Time Limits Resurrects Claim
An NHS nurse won a second crack at her unfair dismissal claims after an appellate tribunal ruled that she only missed the deadline to file because she was genuinely mistaken about the time limits.
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March 13, 2024
EU Parliament Overwhelmingly Passes Landmark AI Law
European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday in favor of a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence law, in a bid to help facilitate innovation while safeguarding the bloc's fundamental rights.
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March 13, 2024
Pensions Watchdog Workers Call Off Strike, Agree To Pay Deal
Some 400 workers at The Pensions Regulator suspended their strike action after agreeing to a pay increase aligned with guidelines set for government employees, the watchdog said Wednesday.