Last October the UK government pledged to remove the compulsory retirement age for all junior civil servants. The Cabinet Secretary has now promised to do the same for senior civil servants, making the civil service “retirement free”. From April 2010 all civil servants who wish to continue working after 65 will be able to do […]
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Governance needs to be brought “back to centre stage” but will not be achieved through “box-ticking conformity” […]
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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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Employees who work at least partly in the UK are entitled to rely on UK legislation to bring race and age discrimination claims. […]
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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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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An EAT case* heard in March underlines the importance to employers of ensuring effectively that employee communication during the redundancy process is not overlooked. In a redundancy situation, an employee who unreasonably refuses an offer of suitable alternative employment made before termination or within four weeks of it has no entitlement to a redundancy payment. […]
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To become more attractive to non-UK companies […]
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The Equality Bill 2009 is currently being debated in Parliament, with simultaneous public consultation on specific provisions including the proposed extension of age discrimination laws to the provision of services. The Bill is designed to replace and simplify all existing anti-discrimination legislation in relation to the 9 “protected characteristics” of gender, marital/civil partnership status, sexuality, […]
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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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