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    01.12.2023
    United Kingdom

    Collective redundancies and possible criminal liability: Supreme Court provides important clarification for administrators

    Recent news reports have highlighted that the number of corporate insolvencies has continued to rise during 2022 and 2023, with the retail sector being particularly affected. Many companies are struggling to meet the demands of repaying government support provided during lockdown, increased running costs and high wages coupled with lower demand due to the cost of living crisis.Corporate insolvencies can impact employees in the affected business in many ways: an employer may be unable to pay wages, holiday pay or other sums due to employees and/or there may be a need to make mass redundancies. Insolvencies...
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    20.11.2023
    United Kingdom

    Post Brexit reforms – changes to holiday entitlement and pay

    As part of the wider process of reviewing the current state of UK laws in the wake of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023, the government has published draft regulations that make some significant reforms to the way in which employees and workers accrue, and are paid for, holiday “to ensure that they are fit for purpose for both businesses and workers alike”.The Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (the “Regulations”) are set to come into force on 1 January 2024 and will go some way to addressing the complexity...
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    16.11.2023
    Czech Republic, Slovakia

    Groundbreaking ECJ ruling on annual leave entitlement of unlawfully dismissed employees

    GB CZ SK
    On 12 October, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) adopted a landmark decision in Case C-57/22 - Ředitelství silnic a dálnic. The issue, brought before the ECJ by the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, related to a question whether annual leave accrues to employees who were unlawfully dismissed during the period when they were unable to work because of the unlawful dismissal. The ECJ overthrew the consistent case law of Czech and Slovak courts in this matter. Read on to learn more and to find out the impact of the ECJ ruling on Czech and Slovak employment relationships.Until...
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    16.11.2023
    Hongrie

    Hungary holds public consultation for draft law on electronic identification and signatures in the financial sector

    On 10 November 2023, the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office submitted for public consultation the draft “Law on the Digital State and Certain Rules for the Provision of Digital Services” (“Digital Citizenship Law”).This Digital Citizenship law is linked to the National Digital Citizenship Programme, which aims at making it easier and faster for “digital citizens” (more precisely: every person resident in Hungary) to manage their affairs through a single mobile application. The mobile application will allow users to prove their identity, settle their payments to...
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    09.11.2023
    United Kingdom

    New duty to prevent sexual harassment

    The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act (the Act) received Royal Assent on 26 October and will come into force one year from this date. The Act will introduce a new legal duty on  employers to take steps to prevent sexual harassment in the course of employment.Once in force, employers will need to change their approach to workplace sexual harassment with the emphasis on prevention, rather than responding to complaints. As the government acknowledged in their 2021 consultation response “there is still a real, worrying problem with sexual harassment at work” and...
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    03.11.2023
    United Kingdom

    Removal of the Bankers’ Bonus Cap

    Following receipt of responses to their joint consultation paper issued last December (PRA CP15/22 and FCA CP22/28), the PRA and the FCA have now published a policy statement (PS9/23) confirming that the bankers’ bonus cap will be removed. This means that firms will now be able to pay bonuses exceeding 100% of fixed pay (or 200% with shareholder approval). This change has been introduced more quickly than expected - it will apply from 31 October 2023 and applies to performance years ongoing on that date, as well as to future performance years. The main rationale for the quicker than expected...
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