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August 15, 2025
Pro Rugby Exec Quits Alleging Misogyny From Owners
The chief operating officer of a professional rugby club has alleged its owners suggested she sleep with someone at the sport's governing body in an open letter on Thursday announcing her resignation.
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August 15, 2025
Engineer Fired After Raising Gas Safety Concerns Wins £66K
An employment tribunal has ordered an energy infrastructure company to pay a former chief engineer more than £66,000 ($89,500) for unfairly firing him after he raised concerns with a job to replace gas mains in London.
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August 15, 2025
Tech Co. Denies Liability For Founder's Legal Fees
An anti-piracy technology firm has rejected a founder's claim that it is obliged to pay for his £186,000 ($252,000) legal bill for litigation against the business, denying that it agreed to cover those legal fees.
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August 15, 2025
Asos Avoids Bias Case Over Worker With Anti-Uniform Beliefs
Fashion retailer Asos did not discriminate against the philosophical beliefs of an employee working for IT firm Ricoh UK by requiring him to wear uniforms that impeded his duties on-site, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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August 15, 2025
L&G Sees Near £1T Pension Deals Globally Over Next Decade
Legal & General has said global insurers could secure up to £1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) in pension liabilities over the next decade.
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August 14, 2025
Trustees Warned To Follow Rules Or Face Jail, Fines
The Pensions Regulator on Thursday warned pension scheme trustees that they face large fines or even jail if they flout investment rules designed to protect savers.
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August 14, 2025
UK Faces Pensions Crisis As Savings Fall Short, Says Official
A director at the pensions watchdog has said that ensuring workers in Britain have sufficient financial resources in later life is the "challenge of our time."
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August 14, 2025
Ex-CEO Denies Contract Breaches In £4.6M Dividend Spat
An education company's former chief executive has denied allegations in a £4.6 million ($6.2 million) claim that she had caused the business to violate the terms of its government contracts by paying herself profits as dividends rather than reinvesting them.
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August 14, 2025
WTW Trust Invests £450M In Schroders Renewables Fund
Insurance broker WTW said Thursday that its defined contribution master trust will invest $450 million in a fund of renewable energy-focused investment manager Schroders Greencoat LLP.
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August 14, 2025
Retail Assets Under Management Overtake Pension Assets
The Investment Association said that for the first time, pension assets fell below retail assets as a proportion of assets under management by investment managers, driven by the continued impact of the 2022 gilts sell-off and by direct benefit pension scheme wind-downs.
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August 14, 2025
Prison Officer Can Appeal Firing Over Clash With Colleague
A former prison officer on Thursday won a bid to revive his case that he was unfairly sacked for confronting a colleague after the pair had a heated exchange while he was subject to a final written warning.
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August 14, 2025
Cycling Charity Bans Trans Women From Gongs After Ruling
A British cycling charity has banned transgender women from being nominated for an annual award for females following legal advice.
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August 14, 2025
Workplace Safety Regulator To Probe Reality TV Star's Death
Britain's regulator for workplace health and safety will take over the investigation into the death of a former reality TV personality who fell to his death.
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August 14, 2025
Aviva Reports Dip In Pension Deals Amid Market Slowdown
Insurance giant Aviva said Thursday that it penned £2 billion ($2.7 billion) worth of bulk annuity deals in the first half of 2025, marking a fall compared with the corresponding period the previous year.
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August 13, 2025
HSF Kramer, CMS Guide £36M Pension Deal For German Bank
Pension Insurance Corp. has completed a £36 million ($49 million) buy-in transaction involving the pensions of 156 members of The Helaba Group in a deal guided by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP.
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August 13, 2025
Thousands Of Sainsbury's Female Staff Fight For Equal Pay
Thousands of female shop workers for retail giant Sainsbury's have claimed that their jobs are of equal value to those of better-paid male warehouse staff in their fight for equal pay.
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August 13, 2025
UK Employers Targeted By Foreign Worker Sponsorship Scam
U.K. organizations that sponsor overseas workers have been targeted by fraudsters posing as the Home Office and using a sophisticated phishing scam to steal sensitive data, according to cybersecurity company Mimecast.
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August 13, 2025
EAT Draws Hard Line On Bringing 2nd Claim During 1st
An appeals tribunal has upheld a decision to block a worker's second claim against a social housing provider, ruling that he should have tried to add the complaint to the first claim he had filed.
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August 13, 2025
Gov't Urged To Tackle UK Self-Employed Pensions 'Crisis'
The government should allow HM Revenue and Customs and financial advisers to provide personalized "nudges" to self-employed workers to encourage retirement saving amid mounting concern that they are not putting enough money aside, a cross-party think tank has said.
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August 13, 2025
Recruitment Co. Founder Wins £229K For Botched Dismissal
A recruitment agency must pay £229,118 ($310,000) to one of its co-founders after it unfairly dismissed him and failed to pay him his bonus, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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August 13, 2025
Squire Patton Steers £23M Pension Deal For UK Steelmaker
Reinforced-steel supplier Rom Ltd. has agreed a £23 million ($31 million) full pension scheme buy-in with Just Group, the financial services company said Wednesday.
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August 13, 2025
Machinery Biz FD Gets 11-Year Ban For £1.5M Undeclared Tax
A former financial director of a machinery business has been banned from the profession for 11 years for submitting false value-added tax returns over three years and leaving more than £1.5 million ($2 million) undeclared to HM Revenue and Customs.
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August 12, 2025
Calling A Woman's Attire 'Conservative' Could Be Harassment
A tribunal has ruled that a business consultant working at Shell may have harassed a female colleague by labeling her clothes "conservative," rejecting the consultant's own set of claims against his former employer.
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August 12, 2025
WME Denies Poaching Agent To Target Rival's Top Clients
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment has denied poaching an agent from a rival U.K. talent agency, dismissing allegations that he used press coverage to lure clients including Queens of the Stone Age, Coldplay and boygenius.
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August 12, 2025
Financial Data Provider Sues Rival For Database Theft
A financial data provider has accused a former product director at one of its subsidiaries of copying a valuable database on infrastructure and energy deals in order to launch a rival platform.
Expert Analysis
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Crypto As A Coin Of The Corporate Realm: The Pros And Cons
The broadened range of crypto-assets opens up new possibilities for employers looking to recruit, incentivize and retain employees through the use of crypto, but certain risks must be addressed, say Dan Sharman and Sunny Mangatt at Shoosmiths.
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Employer Tips For Handling Data Subject Access Requests
As employers face numerous employee data-subject access requests — and the attendant risks of complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office — issues such as managing deadlines and sifting through data make compliance more difficult, highlighting the importance of efficient internal processes and clear communication when responding to a request, say Gwynneth Tan and Amy Leech at Shoosmiths.
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Employer Tips For Navigating The Growing 'Workcation' Trend
While the trend of working remotely from a holiday property may be attractive to workers, employers must set clear guidelines to help employees successfully combine work and leisure without implicating legal risks or compromising business efficacy, says Amy Leech at Shoosmiths.
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Opinion
UK Whistleblowers Flock To The US For Good Reason
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office director recently brought renewed attention to the differences between the U.K. and U.S. whistleblower regimes — differences that may make reporting to U.S. agencies a better and safer option for U.K. whistleblowers, and show why U.K. whistleblower laws need to be improved, say Benjamin Calitri and Kate Reeves at Kohn Kohn.
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No-Poach Agreements Face Greater EU Antitrust Scrutiny
EU competition authorities are increasingly viewing employer no-poach agreements as anti-competitive and an enforcement priority, demonstrating that such provisions are no longer without risk in Europe, and proving the importance of understanding EU antitrust law concerns and implications, says Robert Hardy at Greenberg Traurig.
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Water Special Administration Changes May Affect Creditors
Following the publication of new legislation, changes are afoot to the U.K. government's statutory regime governing special administrations for regulated water companies — and one consequence may be that some creditors of such companies will find themselves in a more uncertain position, say Helena Clarke and Charlotte Møller at Squire Patton.
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Opinion
Labour Should Reconsider Its Discrimination Law Plans
While the Labour Party's recent proposals allowing equal pay claims based on ethnicity and disability, and introducing dual discrimination, have laudable intentions and bring some advantages, they are not the right path forward as the changes complicate the discrimination claim process for employees, say Colin Leckey and Tarun Tawakley at Lewis Silkin.
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Tracing The History Of LGBTQ+ Rights In The Workplace
Pride History month is a timely reminder of how recent developments have shaped LGBTQ+ employees' rights in the workplace today, and what employers can do to ensure that employees are protected from discrimination, including creating safe workplace cultures and promoting allyship, say Caitlin Farrar and Jessica Bennett at Farrer.
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Ruling In FCA Case Offers Tips On Flexible Work Requests
In Wilson v. Financial Conduct Authority, the Employment Tribunal recently found that the regulator's rejection of a remote work request was justified, highlighting for employers factors that affect flexible work request outcomes, while emphasizing that individual inquiries should be considered on the specific facts, say Frances Rollin, Ella Tunnell and Kerry Garcia at Stevens & Bolton.
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Breaking Down The New UK Pension Funding Regs
Recently published U.K. pension regulations, proposing major changes to funding and investing in defined benefit pension schemes, raise implementation considerations for trustees, including the importance of the employer covenant, say Charles Magoffin and Elizabeth Bullock at Freshfields.
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Pension Scheme Ruling Elucidates Conversion Issues
In Newell Trustees v. Newell Rubbermaid UK Services, the High Court recently upheld a pension plan's conversion of final salary benefits to money purchase benefits, a welcome conclusion that considered several notable issues, such as how to construe pension deeds and when contracts made outside scheme rules can determine benefits, say Ian Gordon and Jamie Barnett at Gowling.
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Workplace Bullying Bill Implications For Employers And Execs
In light of the upcoming parliamentary debate on the Bullying and Respect at Work Bill, organizations should consider how a statutory definition of "workplace bullying" could increase employee complaints and how senior executives would be implicated if the bill becomes law, says Sophie Rothwell at Charles Russell.
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Amazon's €32M Data Protection Fine Acts As Employer Caveat
The recent decision by French data privacy regulator CNIL to fine Amazon for excessive surveillance of its workers opens up a raft of potential employment law, data protection and breach of contract issues, and offers a clear warning that companies need coherent justification for monitoring employees, say Robert Smedley and William Richmond-Coggan at Freeths.
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Employers Can 'Waive' Goodbye To Unknown Future Claims
The Scottish Court of Session's recent decision in Bathgate v. Technip Singapore, holding that unknown future claims in a qualifying settlement agreement can be waived, offers employers the possibility of achieving a clean break when terminating employees and provides practitioners with much-needed guidance on how future cases might be dealt with in court, says Natasha Nichols at Farrer & Co.
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Why Investment In Battery Supply Chain Is Important For UK
The recently published U.K. battery strategy sets out the government’s vision for a globally competitive battery supply chain, and it is critical that the U.K. secures investment to maximize opportunities for economic prosperity and net-zero transition, say lawyers at Watson Farley & Williams.