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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International Assignments: Ratification of new UK – Netherlands double tax treaty

The Netherlands has taken the first step towards obtaining the necessary parliamentary approval for the new tax treaty signed between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (the “New Tax Treaty”) by submitting it to the Lower House on September 23, 2009 […]

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International Assignments: Double tax agreement: exchange of information protocol signed to UK/Malaysia agreement

The United Kingdom and Malaysia recently signed a protocol updating the existing double taxation agreement between the countries. […]

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