Employment UK

  • November 12, 2024

    Ex-CBA Chief Jo Sidhu Loses Privacy Bid In Harassment Case

    The former chair of the Criminal Bar Association on Tuesday lost his bid to have a sexual harassment case against him heard behind closed doors, with a disciplinary tribunal ruling that the case should be held in public.

  • November 12, 2024

    Chaplain Loses Bishop Disciplinary Challenge In LGBT Row

    A chaplain who criticized his school's LGBT inclusivity policy failed on Tuesday in his attempt to challenge a decision not to refer the bishop who marked him as a safeguarding risk to a disciplinary tribunal.

  • November 12, 2024

    Pensions Regulator Can't Defend Claims After Delayed Reply

    A case manager can seek a default judgment in his claim for unfair dismissal and disability bias after an employment tribunal ruled that the U.K.'s pensions agency couldn't justify filing its defense 53 days late.

  • November 12, 2024

    NHS Medic Loses Appeal Over Health & Safety Whistleblowing

    A paramedic has failed to convince a London appeals judge that a National Health Service trust punished him for blowing the whistle on an emergency call handler's health and safety failings.

  • November 12, 2024

    Gov't Could Get £200B Investment Boost From LGPS Overhaul

    The U.K. could free up £200 billion ($256 billion) for investment in national infrastructure projects by reforming the Local Government Pension Scheme into a Canadian-style megafund, an insurer has predicted.

  • November 12, 2024

    Ex-HR Worker Loses Appeal Over Disability Evidence

    An appellate tribunal has ruled that a former human resources assistant cannot pursue his claims for disability discrimination against a forestry agency owned by the Scottish government, finding that there was not enough evidence to prove his alleged disability of depression.

  • November 12, 2024

    New Defined Benefit Pension Funding Code Goes Live

    A long-awaited funding code for defined benefit retirement savings plans in the U.K. went live on Tuesday, introducing what the pensions minister described as a "stronger set of standards" for the sector.

  • November 11, 2024

    Lawyer Can't Sue Child Abuse Inquiry Members For Bias

    A lawyer for an inquiry into Scottish child abuse has lost his bid to bring discrimination claims against the chair and chief executive of the investigation, as an employment tribunal ruled that he did not benefit from employment protections.

  • November 11, 2024

    Hospitality Industry Group Warns Chancellor Over Tax Plans

    More than 200 leaders of U.K. companies in the hospitality sector issued an open letter Monday warning Chancellor Rachel Reeves that her decision to raise employers' national insurance contributions will harm businesses.

  • November 11, 2024

    Barings Lawyers Cleared Of Misleading Clients In SRA Case

    A tribunal has dismissed a case against two senior lawyers at the consumer finance firm Barings Ltd. who were accused of misleading clients over payday loans claims and sending out letters on behalf of fictional clients, including Mickey Mouse.

  • November 11, 2024

    Bolt Drivers' Win Leaves Open Key Question For Gig Economy

    Victory by Bolt drivers in a legal battle to secure workers' status could cost the ride-sharing platform up to £200 million ($260 million) in compensation for minimum wage underpayments — but Friday's ruling left open an important question: what drivers might be owed if they work for more than one company at a time.

  • November 11, 2024

    Disabled Court Clerk Wins £13K Over Hybrid Work Refusal

    An employment tribunal has ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay a court clerk more than £13,500 ($17,400) for refusing her request to work from home even though she was suffering from long COVID.

  • November 11, 2024

    Part-Time Paralegal Wins £41K Over Disability Discrimination

    A former paralegal at a regional law firm has won more than £41,000 ($52,800) after a tribunal found it had made her redundant because she was unable to work full-time because of her chronic pain disability.

  • November 11, 2024

    Audit Watchdog Floats Updates To Investor Stewardship Code

    Britain's audit watchdog proposed on Monday that it will drop references to the "environment and society" in its standardized definition of stewardship for investors, one of a range of suggested changes aimed at supporting economic growth and transparency.

  • November 08, 2024

    Trades Union Congress Must Pay Staff £14K For Dismissals

    An employment tribunal has ordered a trade union federation to pay £13,939 ($17,992) to two employees it unfairly fired after accusing them of overcharging for voluntary IT services.

  • November 08, 2024

    Dare CEO Said Traders Faking Illness Left Firm 'In Disarray'

    The chief executive officer of an energy investing company told a court Friday that when two of his most senior traders faked illness to avoid noncompete restrictions before jumping ship for a rival, it left the business "in disarray."

  • November 08, 2024

    Postman Wins £39K From Royal Mail For Unfair Dismissal

    An employment tribunal has ordered Royal Mail to pay £38,878 ($50,309) to a disabled employee who accused managers of bullying him after he had made a number of complaints. 

  • November 08, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen collapsed German airline Air Berlin take action against its former auditor KPMG, the associate editor at The Spectator hit with a libel claim by a mosque over the far-right riots that took place in August and British licensing authority the Performing Right Society sue Parklife Manchester and four other festival organizers. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • November 08, 2024

    Squire Patton Steers Standard Life On £250M Pension Deals

    Insurer Standard Life said it has penned £250 million ($324 million) worth of retirement savings deals for two pension plans linked to British safety technology group Halma PLC, in transactions steered by Squire Patton Boggs LLP.

  • November 08, 2024

    Auto Shop Manager Cannot Use Payout Offer In Sacking Claim

    An employment appellate tribunal has tossed a bid by an auto repair shop manager to include his severance package offer in his unfair dismissal claim, finding that the lower court was right to conclude that the company did not mismanage its proposal.

  • November 08, 2024

    FCA Confirms Rules For Commercial Pension Dashboards

    The U.K.'s financial watchdog set out detailed rules for how commercial pension dashboards will operate in the future, but experts say the lack of a fixed launch date could hinder the emerging sector.

  • November 15, 2024

    A&O Shearman Hires Travers Smith's Incentives Chief

    Allen Overy Shearman Sterling said on Friday that it has recruited the head of incentives and remuneration at Travers Smith LLP, the latest exit from the partnership ranks of the London law firm.

  • November 08, 2024

    Bolt Drivers Win Worker Status In Employment Battle

    Bolt drivers are legally considered to be workers, an employment tribunal ruled on Friday in a claim brought on behalf of more than 10,000 past and present drivers for the app that could be worth £200 million ($260 million).

  • November 07, 2024

    Ousted Rape Crisis Worker Critical Of Trans Policy Wins £69K

    A support center for rape victims in Edinburgh must pay almost £70,000 to a worker who was forced out of her role after she faced discrimination and harassment over her belief that sex is an immutable biological characteristic, a tribunal has ruled.

  • November 07, 2024

    Solicitor's Bias Claim Against SRA Dismissed Again

    A solicitor has lost his bid before the Employment Tribunal to prove that the Solicitors Regulation Authority's decision to place restrictions on his practicing certificate were linked to discrimination, with the tribunal saying the lawyer had presented no new evidence to prove his claim. 

Expert Analysis

  • Weighing UK Pensions Regulator's Moral Hazard Powers

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    The question of whether the U.K. Pension Regulator's moral hazard powers are enforceable outside the U.K. arose first in the Sea Containers case in 2008 and, more recently, in the cases of the Nortel Networks’ U.K. DB Scheme and the Great Lakes DB Scheme. The differing approach of the Pension Regulator, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the Canadian courts in each of these cases is noteworthy, say Sian Robertson of Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP and David Cleary of Greenberg Traurig LLP.

  • Extra-Territorial Application Of The Automatic Stay

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    A recent decision in the Nortel Networks Chapter 11 proceedings demonstrates the difficulty of an expansive approach to U.S. bankruptcy court jurisdiction and calls into question the ability of claimholders to participate in statutorily mandated foreign proceedings without risking loss of their claims and potential sanctions in the U.S. bankruptcy court, say Steven R. Gross, Katherine Ashton and Shannon Rebholz of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

  • Effective Management Of UK Employee Exits

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    This article aims to explain in general terms the protections that apply to employees in the United Kingdom and the choices available to an employer in relation to possible employee terminations — along with the relative risk and costs when deciding how to terminate, says Bettina Bender of CM Murray LLP.

  • Trends For Encouraging Employee Whistleblowing

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    There appears to be little doubt that there is an emerging international consensus that whistleblowing is a legitimate tool for dealing with economic fraud and should be encouraged as one way of stemming such wrongdoing, say Eric A. Savage and Anita S. Vadgama of Littler Mendelson PC.

  • U.S. Incentives, EU Employees And Conflicts Of Law

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    U.S. employers frequently offer senior employees who are based overseas the opportunity to participate in incentive and bonus arrangements that contain provisions protecting the employer’s interests. Any doubt concerning the enforceability of such provisions in the EU now appears to have been resolved in the employees’ favor, say Christopher K. Walter and Mark M. Poerio of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP.

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