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: EU Commission proposes exempting all employee share schemes from the Prospectus Directive

The proposal extends the current employee share schemes exemption to all companies even if they  are not listed on a regulated market in the EEA,  but it may take some time to come into force […]

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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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Employment: More employees get the right to request flexible working

At present employees with 26 weeks continuous employment have a right to request flexible working arrangements to accommodate caring responsibilities for children aged up to 6 (18 where the child is disabled) or for adult relatives or adults who live at the same address as the employee […]

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Employment: Changes to European Works Council regulations

The Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (“TICER”) amending the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 1999 (the “1999 Regulations”) in order to bring them into line with the recast 2009 European Works Council Directive (the “Directive”) in the UK, were put before Parliament on 6 April 2010. The majority of the amendments are expected to come into force on 5 June 2011 […]

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