The government has announced that from April 2011 new measures are being introduced to limit the number of non-EEA migrants who may come to the UK. […]
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Employers may withhold discretionary bonuses even where performance is satisfactory
When determining whether to award a discretionary bonus or not the key issue for the Courts to look at is whether the employer’s decision was irrational or perverse and not whether the employees performance was sufficient to justify a bonus. […]
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Amended Prospectus Directive finalised – extended exemption for employee shares schemes
The proposed early enactment into UK law of 2 of the recent amendments to the Prospectus Directive and the expansion of the share schemes exemption to include all EU companies. […]
UK Enterprise Management Incentives (“EMI”) schemes and foreign companies
The highly tax efficient share scheme for smaller companies is to be made available to foreign companies. […]
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The EHRC have published draft Codes of Practice on the Equality Act 2010 (the “Act”)
The UK Equality Act 2010 (the “Act”) covers all areas of equality and discrimination legislation. The Codes of Practice (the “Codes”) are key to understanding the new obligations under the Act. […]
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Bribery Act 2010 – ALERT – Are you compliant?
All organisations doing any business in the UK need to take active steps to manage the risk of criminal liability under this new UK Bribery Act 2010 […]
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Breaking news – New CEBS guidelines published on 10 December
Further to our article – CRD 3 and restrictions on remuneration in the financial services sector, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (“CEBS”) has published new guidelines on the Capital Requirements Directive (“CRD 3”). […]
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Government considers making it easier to dismiss employees
The UK government is actively considering increasing the qualification requirement for protection from dismissal from one to two years as a means of increasing employment. […]
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Government maternity and new additional paternity leave rights guide
Male employees with parental responsibility for babies that are due to be born or placed for adoption on or after 3 April 2011 will have the right to take part of their partner’s maternity leave as “additional paternity leave”. […]
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The UK Bribery Act 2010 (the “Act”) – Update
OECD threatens blacklisting of UK exporters in response to delays in implementation UK Bribery Act 2010 […]
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