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February 03, 2025
Schroders Commits To Extracting Pension Surplus
Asset manager Schroders said that it has struck a deal to allow its staff retirement savings plan to run on as the government weighs regulation to allow businesses to extract surpluses from their pension scheme.
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February 03, 2025
IT Analyst Loses Discrimination Case Over 'Belief In Dreams'
An employment tribunal has dismissed a computer analyst's claim that he was fired from an IT company over his belief that he had prophetic dreams, ruling that he was let go because he sent a colleague "objectionable" messages about her haunting his dreams.
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February 03, 2025
Manager Wins Case After 'Working For Free' For 3 Months
A warehouse manager for an Amazon Marketplace seller has won her claim alleging that the founder of the company withheld the salaries of workers for three months during a cash-flow crisis sparked by an audit by the online retailer.
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February 03, 2025
Female Asda Workers Win Ruling In £1.2B Equal Pay Claim
Female checkout operators and shop floor assistants for retail giant Asda carry out work of equal value to the mostly-male distribution center staff, an employment tribunal has ruled, setting the stage for victory in their £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) equal-pay claim.
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January 31, 2025
Brexit Five Years On: The Legal Landscape After Europe
Five years after the U.K. formally left the European Union, Law360 looks at how Brexit has changed the legal, regulatory and financial terrain.
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January 31, 2025
Data Reveals More To Do On Diversity Among Barristers
Diversity levels among barristers require further progress to improve representation of women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds at silk level, the Bar Standards Board reported Friday.
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January 31, 2025
NHS Radiographers Lose Group Claim Over On-Call Pay
A National Health Service trust has convinced a tribunal that it did not unlawfully pay a group of radiographers lower on-call wages than their counterparts at another hospital, proving that they paid the correct wages under a "local agreement."
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January 31, 2025
Stobart Slashes Ex-Employee's Maternity Bias Payout
An appeal tribunal has slashed a £10,000 ($12,419) payout awarded to a former Eddie Stobart worker for injury to feelings, ruling that the logistics company's one-off failure to deal with a planner's pregnancy bias complaint did not merit the "perverse" sum.
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January 31, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen another claim by Woodford investors against Hargreaves Lansdown in the widening £200 million ($248 million) dispute over the fund's collapse, a solicitor barred for his role in a suspected advance fee fraud face action by a Swiss wholesaler, and The Resort Group, which markets investments in luxury hotel resorts, hit with a claim by a group of investors. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 31, 2025
Cleaners Punished For Union Membership Win £101K
DOC Cleaning must pay £101,479 ($126,010) for mistreating and belittling six staff members in order to dissuade them from participating in union activities, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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January 31, 2025
BBC Apologizes For Mismanaging Russell Brand Complaints
The BBC has apologized to members of staff who felt unable to raise concerns about Russell Brand's behavior while he worked for the broadcaster because they "felt that there was no point in raising a concern as it would not be listened to."
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January 30, 2025
Foster Carers Win Limited Ability To Sue For Workers' Rights
Three foster carers have lost their bid to be classed as workers in a test case that aimed to secure rights for thousands — but a tribunal did find they have been unlawfully barred from bringing whistleblowing and discrimination claims.
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January 30, 2025
Immunity For Embassy Staff Violates Int'l Law, Court Rules
A London appeals judge has ruled that the current laws governing state immunity violate the right to a fair trial, in a decision holding that Spain cannot dodge an embassy worker's discrimination claim.
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January 30, 2025
Marsh Loses Appeal To Ax Chemical Co.'s Negligence Claim
Marsh Ltd. has failed in its bid to strike out a global chemicals group's claim that the insurance broker negligently arranged faulty motor insurance cover after a London appeals court said Thursday that the allegations need more clarity.
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January 30, 2025
Energy Group Urges UK To Link To EU's Carbon-Tax Measure
The U.K. government should link to the European Union's Emissions Trading System to mitigate the impact of carbon border taxes on businesses in Northern Ireland, an energy industry group said.
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January 30, 2025
Osborne Clarke Guides Aviva's £23M Pension Deal
Insurance giant Aviva has taken on £23 million ($28.7 million) of retirement savings liabilities from The Colthrop Board Mill Pension Scheme in a deal guided by Osborne Clarke, according to lead advisers on the transaction Thursday.
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January 30, 2025
FCA Says Ban On Pension Advice Contingent Charging Works
The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday that almost 200 financial advisers stopped offering pension transfer services after it changed its rules on contingent charging five years ago.
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January 30, 2025
DWP Assessor Fired After Car Crash Absence Wins Claim
An employment tribunal has ruled that a government contractor unfairly fired a case reviewer who was off sick for almost two years, because bosses had broken a promise to refer her to occupational health for a final time.
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January 30, 2025
Will The UK Follow Trump's Lead On DEI Purge? Probably Not
Employers in Britain are unlikely to follow the lead of U.S. multinational employers such as Meta, McDonald's and Amazon by curtailing their diversity, equality and inclusion programs after President Donald Trump moved to ban their use in the American civil service, lawyers say.
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January 30, 2025
UK Gov't Vows To Overhaul Pension Lifeboat Levy
The government said Thursday that it is considering allowing the Pension Protection Fund more flexibility over how it sets its levy, as it looks at further measures to boost economic growth.
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January 30, 2025
Royal Ballet School Settles Body-Shaming Claim In Legal First
The Royal Ballet School has settled a claim brought by a former student, alleging that unrelenting comments from teachers about her weight and appearance led her to develop an eating disorder, Leigh Day said Thursday.
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January 29, 2025
Pension Plans To Start Entering Data Into Portals In April
The first retirement savings plans will start to input customer data to the government's pension dashboards project in April, a top civil servant said Wednesday.
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January 29, 2025
Engineer Wins Redo Over Lack Of Witness Evidence
A Texas bankruptcy judge said Tuesday she would confirm embattled medical system CareMax's proposed Chapter 11 plan after it makes some modifications, highlighting that the proposal's definition of released parties was "entirely too broad."
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January 29, 2025
Former RFB Boss Argues 'No Vendetta' Against Ex-Partner
The ex-managing partner of Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP told a tribunal Wednesday that she had no vendetta against its former head of employment law, revealing that she stepped aside from the top job over "irreconcilable differences" with other partners.
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January 29, 2025
Barclays Beats Sex Bias Case, Citing Performance Concerns
A mortgage adviser has failed to prove that Barclays Bank treated her differently from male colleagues when it put her on an improvement plan, as an employment tribunal ruled that bosses were worried about her performance.