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Autumn 2017 Budget delivered by Chancellor
...employment practices, exploring the case and options for longer-term reform to make the employment status tests for both employment rights and tax clearer. The government recognises that this is an im...
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Workplace Law Firm Doyle Clayton – exceptional performance in The Times/Chambers/The Legal 500
...EmploymentVictoria Burnip [Partner] - Employment and ImmigrationDarren Clayton [Partner] - EmploymentPeter De Maria [Partner] - EmploymentPeter Doyle [Partner] - EmploymentSimon Henthorn [Partner] - E...
Remote(ly) controlled employees - Do you have employees working overseas?
...employment law rightsTax/social security implicationsFCA issuesPensions and other employment-related benefitsCorporate and local company law requirementsIntellectual propertyData protectionHealth & Sa...
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Kate Kapp announced as the new Head of Doyle Clayton's Thames Valley Office
...employment lawyer and litigator who represents and advises both employers and employees on a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment related issues. In recent years, she has worked cl...
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No Collective Redundancy Consultation Obligations on Expiry of Fixed-term Contracts
...employment through dismissal and re-engagement. The employees were employed on fixed-term contracts for a specific project or for maternity or sick leave cover. The employment judge held that c...
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Employer could not “buy” post-termination restriction
...employment terminated. Unusually, the restriction provided for the employee to receive full pay throughout its duration. Nevertheless the High Court ruled that it was in restraint of trade and unenf...
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Ban on Islamic Headscarf Direct Religious Discrimination
Ban on Islamic Headscarf Direct Religious Discrimination An employer’s ban on a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf constitutes direct discrimination on grounds of religion, according to the Advocate Ge...
Illegal Working: the New Law, Increased Fines and How Businesses Can Protect Themselves
...employment; Step 2 — assess the genuineness of the documents and check that the prospective employee is the rightful owner; and Step 3 — make copies in a specified format and retain for a certain pe...
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James Murray
...Employment Lawyers Association Briefing Experience and Qualifications Qualified in 2015 Professional memberships Employment Lawyers’ Association (ELA)
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TUPE: Pension guarantee enforceable against new owner 20 years later
TUPE: Pension guarantee enforceable against new owner 20 years later In Whitney v Monster Worldwide Ltd, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that an assurance given by an employer about his pension ent...
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Do Not Assume Dismissal for Gross Misconduct is Always Fair
Do Not Assume Dismissal for Gross Misconduct is Always Fair Dismissal of an employee for gross misconduct after a reasonable investigation does not necessarily fall within the band of reasonable resp...
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Taskforce Set Up to Assess Holiday Pay Ruling
Taskforce Set Up to Assess Holiday Pay Ruling Vince Cable has announced that he is setting up a taskforce to consider the impact of the EAT's ruling that non-guaranteed overtime must be included in ho...
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Taxpayer Entitled to Tax Relief on Clawed Back Bonus
...employment contract required him to repay a proportion of the bonus if he left his employment in the first five years. M gave notice to terminate his employment within the first five years. As a res...
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Tribunal and court fees inquiry
...employment tribunal claims has affected access to justice and whether the volume and quality of cases has been affected. Written submissions must be made by 30 September 2015. The inquiry is separate...
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Tribunal Fees Lawful Rules Court of Appeal
...employment tribunal fees declared unlawful. Speedread The Court of Appeal has dismissed Unison’s challenge to the introduction of employment tribunal fees. It rejected arguments that fees prevent c...
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CCTV recording at work – principles and pitfalls
...Employment Law Journal.
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Peter Daly Selected for The Lawyer Hot 100
...Employment Appeal Tribunal, which established gender critical beliefs as being protected under the Equality Act 2010. Peter has also acted for a number of other clients with gender critical beliefs, i...
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Government backs Carer's Leave Bill
...employment will be required. According to the Government, employees will be able to take the leave flexibly to suit their caring responsibilities and will not need to provide evidence of how the leave...
Please remember that your pay could go down as well as up ...
...employment, but save their colleagues’ jobs. Pay cuts are by no means an easy option and can be, in practice, more complicated than a redundancy exercise. In the absence of an express contractual righ...
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Stress in the workplace – what employers need to know
Stress in the workplace – what employers need to know April is stress awareness month While occasional workplace stress is unavoidable in most roles, what is important is that stress is managed b...