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On 16 April 2013, as previously reported, the European Parliament adopted CRD4 – the fourth amendment to the Capital Requirements Directive (“Directive”). CRD4 includes a cap on bankers’ bonuses of 1 x salary. Read more
Last week, the High Court published its full judgment in the latest of a series of recent cases on how the penalty doctrine operates in the employment law sphere - Henning Berg v Blackburn Rovers FC. Read more
The debate about the existence of caste discrimination in the UK and the extent to which individuals should be protected from it has been ongoing for many years. Read more
The EU Parliament recently adopted the legislative package known as CRD4 which, as previously reported, includes a basic cap on bankers’ bonuses of 1 x salary. Read more
The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court award of more than EUR 50 million in bonuses to a group of 104 bankers. Read more
After an intense game of parliamentary ping-pong, the House of Lords has finally agreed to spare George Osborne’s blushes and accept the Government’s proposed revisions to clause 27 of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, meaning that the “employee shareholder” legislation will become law at some point this Autumn. Read more
Workers often decide to supply services to clients through an intermediary (such as a personal service company) rather than contracting directly with the client. They may do this for a number of reasons. Read more
Many employers, faced with the prospect of employment tribunal litigation, may be tempted to throw in the towel and settle the minute the claim form hits their desk. Read more
Unite and Unison, two of the country’s biggest unions, have backed plans for a general strike. Read more
The field of pensions auto-enrolment, which first started to apply to the largest employers in October 2012, is strewn with battle-stories of ways in which employers have managed to cope with the obligations imposed on them by the legislation. Read more
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