Employment: Mentoring scheme to increase numbers of female non-executive directors in FTSE

An initiative sponsored by BP and MWM Consulting, “Women for Boards” was announced on 23rd September.  The scheme aims to address the massive under-representation of women on the boards of Britain’s top companies by providing mentoring by experienced female non-executive directors […]

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International Assignments: Double tax agreement – new exchange of information protocol to UK/Switzerland agreement signed

The United Kingdom and Switzerland have signed a protocol to the current UK/Switzerland double taxation agreement. […]

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Employment: High Court rules default retirement age of 65 is lawful

On 25th September 2009 the High Court gave judgement in the so-called “Heyday” case, a long-running challenge to the legality of the Default Retirement Age (DRA) of 65 established by the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006.
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Employment: Significant changes to the UK points-based Immigration Rules from 6 April 2010

On 18 March 2010 the Home Office announced changes to the Tier 1 (highly skilled workers) and Tier 2 (skilled workers with a job offer) which impact all applications made on or after 6 April 2010 […]

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Compensation & Benefits: Employment trends survey reveals extent of workplace belt tightening

The Confederation of British Industry and recruitment consultancy Harvey Nash have published a survey revealing the extent of organisational changes employers have made or are considering making to weather the downturn. […]

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Employment: Offshore workers – “field breaks” count toward

An important decision for the oil and gas industry – the Employment Appeal
Tribunal (“EAT”) has reversed a previous decision that “field breaks”
(time spent onshore by offshore workers) cannot count towards statutory
minimum holiday entitlement […]

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