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  • Jail Warning for Sexual Harassment

    Royaume-Uni 15.01.2001
    The Court of Appeal has confirmed jail sentences of 21 and 12 months for an employee and a manager convicted of respectively 7 and 2 charges of indecent assault in the course of sexually harassing women...

  • House of Lords Decision in Halfpenny -v- IGE Medical Systems Limited

    Royaume-Uni 22.12.2000
    The House of Lords has finally given its judgment in Halfpenny -v- IGE Medical Systems Limited, a case concerning the right to return to work from maternity leave in which CMS Cameron McKenna acted for...

  • More support for working parents

    Royaume-Uni 13.12.2000
    The Government's new Green Paper, "Work and Parents: Competitiveness and Choice", has met a hostile reception from employers' bodies and a mass of press commentary. In fact, the Green Paper simply sets...

  • Government to cut red tape and speed up equal pay and sex discrimination cases

    Royaume-Uni 12.12.2000
    The Government has just announced 8 proposals to speed up and simplify equal pay claims in Employment Tribunals. Equal pay claims are notoriously slow to resolve, even uncomplicated cases take an average...

  • Human Rights Act - Employment

    Royaume-Uni 29.11.2000
    The business implications of the Human Rights Act on employment. Employment

  • New rules on monitoring telephone, e-mail and internet equipment

    Royaume-Uni 29.09.2000
    One of the hot issues in employment law at the moment is the balance between an employer's desire/need to monitor the use its employees make of its telephone, e-mail and internet equipment with employees'...

  • Response to 'Reforming the law on involuntary manslaughter: the Government's proposals'

    Royaume-Uni 28.09.2000
    1.The need for Reform There can be no doubt that common law involuntary manslaughter has developed in an unsatisfactory way and would benefit from codification. We are disappointed however that the government's...

  • Discretionary bonuses

    Royaume-Uni 08.09.2000
    A High Court decision this week has confirmed that where bonuses are to be discretionary an employer must exercise that discretion without irrationality or perversity. A failure to exercise a discretion...

  • Court of Appeal restores status quo to Employment Tribunals

    Royaume-Uni 23.08.2000
    The Court of Appeal has ruled in the cases of Foley v Post Office and HSBC (formerly Midland Bank plc) v Madden that Employment Tribunals are bound to apply the "band of reasonable responses" test in deciding...

  • Administrators' duty pay NIC and PAYE

    Royaume-Uni 27.07.2000
    The Court of Appeal has recently affirmed the decision in Commissioners of Inland Revenue -v- Lawrence & Anor that the Inland Revenue enjoys super priority to be paid PAYE and NIC deducted from employees'...

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