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Pensions: enrolment and partnerships
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10 July 2014In an article for The Law Society Gazette, Clive Greenwood and Christopher Hitchins examine the issue of LLPs auto-enrolling its members.
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Lewis Silkin has contributed to Corporate Livewire's Expert Guide 2014
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30 May 2014James Davies and Tarun Tawakley have contributed to Corporate Livewire's Expert Guide on Labour & Employment Law 2014.
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Silver Lining - age discrimination back in the spotlight
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25 April 2014In a new article for Solicitors Journal, Lee Nair and James Davies discuss the difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of the ban on age discrimination and the impact a new statutory code will have.
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Would raising the minimum wage to the living wage increase unemployment?
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24 April 2014In an article for Personnel Today, Hannah Price examines whether raising the minimum wage to the living wage would increase unemployment.
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Data protection - a contextual approach to regulation
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07 April 2014Steve Lorber identifies some fundamental problems with the way that Europe approaches data protection regulation and makes some tentative suggestions as to how that approach might be developed in practice, particularly in the context of employment.
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Stay abreast of whistle-blower protections in the EU
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06 March 2014In an article for the Society for Human Resource Management, Kathryn Weaver relays her thoughts on the UK's "advanced classification", given to it in a Transparency International report on anti-corruption.
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Muslim Staff Policy: How Religious Freedom Fits in the Workplace
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23 December 2013Commenting in an International Business Times article, James Davies discusses flaws in the definition of indirect discrimination after cases where a major retailer faced public fury when it was revealed the company allowed shop assistants the right to refuse to sell alcohol and pork products and a Christian worker at British Airways was asked to cover up a necklace which depicted a cross.
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Merry whatever
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19 December 2013In an Economist article, Tom Heys comments upon recent rulings on religious beliefs and how even conventional legal definitions of religion are getting murky.
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Trader loses 'ludicrous' case against dismissal
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12 December 2013Commenting in an article for The Times, Michael Anderson discusses the recent sacking of an oil trader who was dismissed after a heavy night of drinking.
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Zero-hours work ‘equals a happy work-life balance’
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26 November 2013In a Times article, Lewis Silkin has been mentioned regarding the survey conducted in conjunction with the CIPD on zero-hours contracts.
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French police put together case against Ikea bosses
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21 November 2013After the revelation that two senior executives from Ikea’s French business and a former head of the company were charged with illegally using police files to snoop on staff and customers, Ellen Temperton discusses legal ways to obtain information about a candidate's or existing employee’s criminal past in a Times article.
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Religious symbols at work: Lift high the cross
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21 November 2013Commenting in an Economist article, Tom Heys discusses the difficulty employers face when weaving their way through law relating to religious jewellery at work.
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Barclays scrambles to plug staff gap after suspensions
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05 November 2013In a Wall Street Journal article, Toni Lorenzo discusses the fate of the six currency traders suspended by Barclays last week amid a probe into possible manipulation of foreign-exchange markets.
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Poundland judgment neither a surprise nor a victory
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04 November 2013Following her comments on the Supreme Court’s ‘back to work’ judgment last week, Carla Davidson's subsequent article on the case is featured in HR Magazine.
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UK’s Supreme Court rules ‘workfare’ legally flawed
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31 October 2013In a Financial Times article, Carla Davidson comments upon a Supreme Court ruling that the Government's controversial back to work schemes, which require jobseekers to work for free or risk losing their benefits, were legally flawed.
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PRCA and Lewis Silkin launch industry-leading legal partnership
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25 October 2013The PRCA and Lewis Silkin LLP are delighted to announce a strategic partnership that includes an employment and commercial legal helpline for PRCA corporate members.
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Auto enrolment pension regime
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21 October 2013In a co-authored article for The Law Society Gazette, Katherine Shaw and Kathryn Pickard discuss the impact the new auto enrolment pension rules will have on law firms, and the tricky areas that they are likely to encounter.
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Ius Laboris supports first ever certified Global Reward Management Programme through top European Business Schools
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18 October 2013Ius Laboris, the world’s largest and highest quality alliance of HR law firms, has announced it is contributing the HR law training aspects of the first ever certified Global Reward Management programme in Europe.
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Policies on porn: how to tackle internet misuse in the workplace
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16 October 2013In a Reuters article, Russell Brimelow discusses large financial institutions' policies towards employees accessing, or attempting to access, pornography whilst at work.
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The City takes a break from holidays
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30 September 2013In this Financial News article, Colin Leckey discusses results of the Financial News' City job satisfaction survey which found that 30.5% of survey participants did not take their entire holiday entitlement for the year.