On 15 December 2009, the London Stock Exchange published AIM Notice 35, detailing proposed amendments to the AIM Rules. […]
Category: Compensation and Benefits
Compensation & Benefits: Childcare vouchers to loose tax and National Insurance Contribution exemptions
Employers should take advantage of the scheme now to secure the tax and NIC advantages to 2015 […]
Compensation & Benefits: ABI – New Executive Remuneration Guidelines and “position paper”
On 15 December 2009, a new version of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Guidelines was published together with an accompanying position paper on how the Guidelines should be applied […]
Compensation & Benefits: The post-Walker corporate governance environment
Governance needs to be brought “back to centre stage” but will not be achieved through “box-ticking conformity” […]
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Compensation & Benefits: Prospectus Directive
In September 2009, the EU Commission proposed amendments to the current Prospectus Directive which would have extended the current exemption under the Directive to cover employee share schemes of all companies, including those not admitted to trading on an European Economic Area (EEA) “regulated market”. […]
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Compensation & Benefits: An extra bank holiday in 2012!
The government plans to create a one-time extra bank holiday on 5 June 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. […]
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Compensation & Benefits: UK Enterprise Management Incentives (“EMI”) schemes
To become more attractive to non-UK companies […]
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Compensation & Benefits: Financial Services Bill
Following the recent G20 summit in Pittsburgh in September 2009, it appears that a blank cheque has been written for financial services sector regulation […]
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Compensation & Benefits: Clarification of entitlement to holiday pay upon termination
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that, under the terms of the employment contract, an employee was entitled to a payment in lieu of untaken holiday accrued over the full period of seven and a half years of employment, rather than just in her final year. […]
Compensation & Benefits: New PAYE penalty regime from April 2010
HMRC has issued a draft order providing that the new penalty regime for late payment of income tax under PAYE will come into force from 6 April 2010 […]
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