Compensation & Benefits: Revised European social security legislation from 1 May 2010

Revised EU legislation will introduce substantial changes to social security for EU employers not present in the UK and for those individuals who work temporarily outside their home EU member state […]

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Employment: Application of UK employment legislation to a worker travelling from one place to another

The Court of Appeal (“CA”) has upheld a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal that a seaman employed on a ship registered outside Great Britain can bring an unfair dismissal claim in the UK […]

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Expatriates: New rules for non-UK domiciled and not ordinarily resident taxpayers

Under the UK tax system those who have a non-UK domicile are entitled to use the remittance basis of taxation whereby only income and gains which they “remit” to the UK is taxable here. So too the remittance basis applies to those individuals who are not ordinarily resident in the UK, but only in relation […]

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