Wednesday, 13 February 2019 00:00
Two 2018 cases showed the increasingly wide scope of vicarious liability:
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Wednesday, 13 February 2019 00:00
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
An employee of an executive search company resigned to work for a competitor. Her ex-employer sought an injunction, relying on a six-month restrictive covenant not to be ‘directly or indirectly engaged or concerned or interested in any business carried on in competition’.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
The Budget has tightened up the qualifying conditions that have to be met for entrepreneurs relief (which exempt gains on the sale of a ‘trading’ business from capital gains tax).
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
The ECJ had held that a ‘worker’ does not automatically lose the accrued right to paid annual leave because of a failure to ask for it.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
An ET has held that it was not harassment to call a fellow employee a ‘fat ginger pikey’. This was despite the fact that the employee had type 1 diabetes.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
A staff handbook will generally be a guide to the organisation’s procedures, without being intended as a contractual document.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
An employee started work in 2008, and was promoted in 2011, and 2016. The company sought to enforce restrictive covenants, and produced three contracts (2008, 2011 and 2012), none of which was signed.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:00
If you leave a tip in a restaurant, does it go the individual who served you, or does it go to the employer (perhaps to be paid into a tronc, with a percentage being distributed to all staff)?
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Friday, 16 November 2018 00:00
From 6 April 2019, employers will have to pay NI on any part of a termination payment that exceeds £30,000. Note that this is employer NI (it is not payable on employee NI).
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