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July 16, 2026
A London appeals tribunal held Thursday that two rail operators breached collective bargaining rules by cutting negotiations short and taking a pay offer directly to union members, preserving a £4.9 million ($6.4 million) payout to 1,250 workers.
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July 16, 2026
Europe's top court ruled Thursday that the rules of the governing body of world football regarding players' agents breach the EU's ban on cartels, but said national courts must decide whether other rules also violate competition law.
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July 16, 2026
A human resources adviser has lost a bid to expand her disability discrimination appeal against the National Health Service, after an appellate tribunal found she waited too long to challenge an earlier decision that part of her claim was out of time.
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July 16, 2026
The U.K. government should develop a clearer national framework for measuring retirement adequacy to ensure the pension system is guaranteeing savers have enough money to live well in later life, an influential trade body has said.
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July 16, 2026
The Ministry of Defence has defeated a sex discrimination claim from a female member of the Royal Navy, convincing a tribunal that it was not unfair to restrict her participation in a fitness test required to become a higher-ranked officer because she had recently had a baby.
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July 16, 2026
Pension Insurance Corporation PLC has taken on full responsibility for all 36,000 members of the Rolls-Royce UK Pension Fund, just nine months after signing a £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) deal with the British aerospace and defense giant.
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July 16, 2026
The number of U.K. pensioners paying income tax has risen by three million in the five years since earning thresholds were frozen, government figures have revealed.
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July 16, 2026
The government said Thursday that it has formally brought British Steel into public ownership to safeguard its industrial capacity, protect thousands of jobs and secure supplies for critical infrastructure.
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July 15, 2026
Britain's equality watchdog confirmed Wednesday that businesses risk discrimination claims if they allow transgender people to use toilets matching their chosen gender under the body's new code of practice, which comes into effect on Aug. 5.
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July 15, 2026
The ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court on the bounds of a director's duty to act in "good faith" makes it clear that honesty is the best policy, even if directors are at odds over what they think is best for their company, lawyers say.
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July 15, 2026
A London tribunal has ruled that a veteran property disputes lawyer cannot remain anonymous in a disability discrimination claim she has brought against her former law firm Brachers LLP and several of its partners.
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July 15, 2026
Britain's retirement savings watchdog has said its work over the next five years will be driven by raising governance standards and ensuring value for money, while it seeks to improve sustainable outcomes for people at retirement.
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July 15, 2026
The U.K. government should scrap the "unusually generous" triple-lock pension policy to reduce fiscal uncertainty in Britain, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said Wednesday.
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July 14, 2026
An employment tribunal has ordered a moving and cleaning services company to pay £15,766 ($21,100) to a van driver after it deducted fuel costs from his pay, ruling that a shoddily written contract created uncertainty about the worker's entitlements.
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July 14, 2026
A veteran barrister urged the government in a landmark review on Tuesday to give the Serious Fraud Office powers to pay whistleblowers to "take the fight to fraudsters" who are eroding trust in the justice system and the U.K. economy.
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July 14, 2026
The government proposed on Tuesday requirements for employers to disclose a salary range to job applicants as part of a consultation on pay equality reforms that include a new watchdog and pay audits of employers that have committed pay discrimination.
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July 14, 2026
A London appeals tribunal has ruled that an information technology company cannot force a graduate to repay more than £8,000 ($10,700) in training fees, finding that its terms placed unreasonable demands on young workers who want to pursue other opportunities.
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July 14, 2026
The government has said it wants to hike levies on pension funds to plug a £154 million ($206 million) shortfall in the cost of regulating the sector.
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July 14, 2026
The nation's largest pension schemes have £5.3 billion ($7 billion) invested in U.K. unlisted markets, according to data published by the sector's regulator, as the government pushes ahead with its megafund reforms.
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July 14, 2026
A director who covertly sabotaged his board's strategy to sell a business breached his statutory duty to act in good faith, Britain's top court ruled Tuesday, holding that his belief that he was acting in the company's long-term interests did not excuse his conduct.
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July 13, 2026
A Scottish tribunal has refused to trim a Peninsula employment law consultant's claim that she faced disability discrimination during a fire drill at the advisory firm's offices, declining to throw out her case against her former manager.
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July 13, 2026
The Co-op must pay an apprentice driver £19,000 ($25,400) after the retailer sought to minimize her claims that a female colleague had been sexually harassing her and reinstated the woman without adequately protecting the apprentice, a tribunal ruled.
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July 13, 2026
A London appellate tribunal revived on Monday a claim by a former Home Office employee that the ministry discriminated against him by alleging that he had lied about his disability when he applied for a new role.
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July 13, 2026
British insurers urged the government's retirement savings inquiry on Monday to produce a clear road map to lift automatic enrollment pension contributions from 8% to 12% by the end of the 2030s, warning that millions of savers are unprepared for retirement.
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July 13, 2026
The Pension Protection Fund has said it has begun to prepare a package worth £1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) for older retirees who were denied years of inflation-linked increases in benefits.