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18 January 2012
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.…
18 January 2012
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. Background EMI schemes are the most flexible of the UK’s tax favoured share…
18 January 2012
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…
18 January 2012
Bribery Act 2010 – ALERT – Are you compliant?
The provisions of the Act come into force in April 2011. An obligation on all commercial organisations doing any business in the UK Recent draft guidance published by the UK…
17 January 2012
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…
17 January 2012
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. Unfair dismissal rights Employees who…
17 January 2012
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…
17 January 2012
The UK Bribery Act 2010 (the “Act”) – Update
Since our article on the Act in December 2010 there has been significant lobbying by business, including most notably from the CBI, to delay the implementation of the Act, originally…
17 January 2012
Repeal of the Default Retirement Age (“DRA”)
The DRA was abolished with effect from 6 April 2011 subject to transitional provisions (see Transitional Proceedings below). The effect of abolishing the DRA Any dismissals due to age which…
17 January 2012
The proposed new Scotland Act – How UK business may be affected
The Scotland Bill (the “Bill”), in its present form, could result in major changes to income tax, the introduction of the concept of a ‘Scottish taxpayer’, a new land tax…