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Michael Burd writes for The Law Society: Gender pay gap reporting
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09 May 2018In an article for The Law Society, Michael Burd reflects on the gender pay gap reporting results, in relation to the legal sector.
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Joanna Hunt writes for City A.M.: Businesses should demand the home office reform policies that create a burden and ‘hostile environment’ for employers
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09 May 2018In an article for City A.M. Joanna Hunt discusses the UK's immigration system creating a "hostile environment" resulting in a burden on employers having to check all employees right to work in the UK, or face harsh penalties.
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Lewis Silkin named ‘Law Firm of the Year for Labour, Employment & Pensions’ by Who’s Who Legal Global Guide 2018
Press Release
09 May 2018This global recognition follows last year's accolade of our employment team being named ‘the most highly nominated European firm’ by Who’s Who Legal in 2017.
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Colin Leckey comments for economia: Mind the gender pay gap
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08 May 2018In an article for economia, Colin Leckey comments on gender pay gap reporting and why there are pay disparities, even for people doing similar jobs.
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Failing to enhance pay for shared parental leave may be indirect sex discrimination
04 May 2018The EAT has indicated that enhancing maternity pay, but not pay for taking shared parental leave, may give rise to an indirect sex discrimination claim by fathers. This follows last month’s EAT decision that a failure to pay a father enhanced pay for shared parental leave was not direct sex discrimination.
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Andrew Osborne comments for the International Bar Association: Supporting the workforce through Brexit
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02 May 2018In an article for the International Bar Association, Andrew Osborne discusses the negative impact Brexit will have on retaining and recruiting staff from the EU.
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Michael Burd writes for Lexology: Failure to pay father full pay for shared parental leave is not sex discrimination
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02 May 2018In an article for Lexology, Michael Burd discusses the Employment Appeal Tribunal's (EAT) decision that it is not sex discrimination to fail to pay a father his full salary during shared parental leave, in circumstances where a mother taking maternity leave during the same period would have received full pay.
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Are documents generated in the course of an investigation protected by litigation privilege?
01 May 2018Two recent cases concerning the applicability of litigation privilege to documents generated in the course of investigations show that it is easier to obtain that protection where the subject of the investigation is a civil rather than criminal matter.
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Ask About...Retail, Fashion and Hospitality
01 May 2018Many of our clients in the retail, fashion and hospitality sector face similar HR issues. Each month one of the members of our team will identify an issue, ask how you would deal with it and provide our advice. This month we asked Emma...
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Dominic Farnsworth writes for World Trademark Review: Plain crazy? Extending plain-packaging restrictions to alcohol and sugar
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30 April 2018In an article for World Trademark Review, Dominic Farnsworth discusses public health concerns, resulting in calls to extend standardised packaging from Tobacco to alcohol and high-fat, salt and sugar foods and drinks.
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Retirement and age discrimination – recent developments in Ireland
30 April 2018According to latest statistics, claims of age discrimination made up 14% of cases raised by members of the public to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (“IHREC”) under Irish employment legislation. Compulsory and contractual retirement ages in particular have become an increasing area of litigation in Ireland in recent times.
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EHRC gets tough on enforcing gender pay gap reporting
26 April 2018Enquiries by Lewis Silkin have revealed that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (“EHRC”) is adopting a rigorous approach to enforcement of the gender pay gap reporting (“GPGR”) regime.
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Lewis Silkin advises Cirkle on “transformational” Employee Ownership restructure
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26 April 2018Leading law firm Lewis Silkin LLP has advised Cirkle, the PR and digital consultancy, on its move to become 60% owned by employees.
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Sports Q&A – We store medical and biometric data of our athletes, what will GDPR and the UK Data Protection Bill mean for this?
26 April 2018The GDPR, which comes into force on 25 May 2018, imposes more onerous requirements when processing (including storing) ‘special categories’ of personal data, which includes ‘data concerning health’ and ‘biometric data’. The processing of ‘special’ personal data is prohibited unless the data controller can show that an exception applies.
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Find a Job service to replace Universal Jobmatch
25 April 2018The Government has announced that Universal Jobmatch will be replaced by the Find a Job service on 14 May 2018. Your existing Universal Jobmatch account will not move to the new service.
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Brands and IP newsnotes - issue 7
23 April 2018Welcome to the 7th edition of our Brands & IP newsnotes put together to bring you the latest, and most interesting legal developments affecting intellectual property law. In this issue we cover; Nando’s taking legal action against ‘copycat’ restaurant, Fernando’s, Sky v SkyKick referred to CJEU, Brexit & IP, IP & trading names, luxury brand owners rights to prohibit reselling of their products through some internet platforms and Time’s up for Smartwatch appeal.
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Brexit means BrexIP? (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 7)
23 April 2018Struggling to keep up with Brexit? IP Newsnotes brings you the latest on the negotiations as they impact IP.
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Time’s up for Smartwatch appeal (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 7)
23 April 2018The CJEU has dismissed an appeal against a decision not to invalidate a smartwatch design held by Nike, ruling that “pioneering” designs do not attract greater protection.
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The Sky’s the limit? Sky v SkyKick referred to CJEU (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 7)
23 April 2018In the latest instalment of Sky v SkyKick, the UK High Court has referred several questions to the CJEU relating to trade mark validity, requesting guidance on the limits of bad faith when a mark lacks clarity and precision.
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Nando’s v Fernando’s – a peri peri good idea? (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 7)
23 April 2018The well-known high street chicken restaurant, Nando’s, has attracted legal and national headlines in its pursuit of ‘copycat’ restaurant, Fernando’s, based in Reading.