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Employer issues with LinkedIn: Stemming the tide
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26 June 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the issues that employers may face when its employees use professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn.
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100 Years of Employment Law
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18 June 2013Richard Lister wrote an article for the Impact magazine to mark the centenary of the CIPD, taking a look back at how UK employment law has evolved over the past 100 years.
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Bankers' bonuses: Curbing excess
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14 June 2013In an article written for PLC Magazine, Colin Leckey, Victoria Goode and Ailsa Murdoch discuss a recent ruling that investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort must uphold a promise made at the height of the financial crisis to guarantee a minimum €400 million bonus pool to a group of bankers at its London office.
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Bring your own device: Responding to the trend
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14 June 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the 'Bring your own device' (BYOD) trend, how employers should respond to it, and how it could have potentially damaging implications.
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US employment law firm FordHarrison joins Ius Laboris, Global HR law Alliance
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12 June 2013Ius Laboris, the world’s largest alliance of Human Resources law firms (of which Lewis Silkin is the UK member) announced that U.S. employment law firm FordHarrison LLP has joined the Alliance.
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Flexible working - the backlash
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23 May 2013In a Financial Times article, Russell Brimelow discusses Flexible Working and how often some employers don’t realise they have health and safety obligations if staff are working from home. Not only does technology need to be safe, but the working environment needs to be as risk-free as practicable too.
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Lewis Silkin announces new partner
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02 April 2013Rebecca Peedell has been appointed partner in Lewis Silkin’s renowned Employment, Reward and Immigration team effective 1st April 2013.
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Collective agreements and TUPE - more dynamic than you might think
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12 March 2013In Beerg's Global Labor newsletter, Katherine Shaw discusses the transfer of employees to another employer under TUPE.
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Irate RBS bankers could challenge bonus clawbacks
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08 March 2013In an eFinancialCareers article, James Davies suggests that the investment bankers who have had their bonuses reduced, or even clawed back, in response to the breaches of others may challenge the decision as it could appear to be legally dubious. James argues that issues arise when bonus clawbacks are used as penalties rather than as recompense for damage done. RBS, which is 82 percent owned by the UK government, announced last week that it was cutting bonuses for 2012 and clawing back bonuses for previous years to cover its £390m Libor fixing fine.
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Can we stop our former multichannel director disclosing our strategy to her new retail employer?
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08 February 2013James Walters discusses the possibility of former employees disclosing sensitive company information and how best to approach it in an article for Retail Week.
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EU data protection proposals - implications for employment
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07 February 2013Steven Lorber discusses the impact of the Data Protection Regulation for employers, and explains how EU lawmakers are ducking employment issues.
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Why government reforms on employment law make little sense
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28 January 2013In a Law Gazette article, Michael Burd discusses new governmental employment reforms and mentions how, in some aspects, they may actually be doing the opposite of what they set out to do.
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Government limits unfair dismissal awards to a year's salary
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21 January 2013James Davies comments on new limits on unfair dismissal awards in a Solicitors Journal article.
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Motivating shop floor staff
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18 January 2013Laura Farnsworth discusses the changes in buying habits and how this affects shop workers in an article for Retail Week.
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Let's not lose disabled talent
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11 January 2013Richard Miskella urges all to make the Paralympic legacy last in an article for Broadcast.
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Workplace rights : General strikes
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03 January 2013Michael Burd and James Davies discuss anti-austerity unrest and explain where the law stands on general strikes in an article for Management Today.
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Lewis Silkin expands with third office in Cardiff
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16 November 2012Lewis Silkin's third office opening in Cardiff has been covered by Bloomberg.
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Lewis Silkin creates Cardiff base
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13 November 2012The South Wales Echo has written an article on Lewis Silkin's decision to expand into Wales.
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Lewis Silkin opens Cardiff base
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13 November 2012Insider Media Limited has written a piece about Lewis Silkin opening a new branch in Cardiff.