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18 January 2012
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
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 An obligation on all commercial organisations doing any business in the UK Recent draft guidance published by the UK…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
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
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
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
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
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 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…
17 January 2012
From April 2011 parents are able to share their time off work during their baby’s first year. This means that each parent could take 6 months maternity/paternity leave. Please see…
17 January 2012
The annual return forms must be filed by the relevant deadline or a penalty may be imposed by HMRC. Annual return forms The following annual return forms for the year…