From 1 February 2016, landlords of residential properties are now required to carry out ‘right to rent’ checks on prospective tenants to ensure that they have the right to live in the UK before granting a tenancy. Failure to carry out the requisite checks can leave landlords liable to pay a fine of up to £3,000....
Cash flow is the life blood of every construction company. Failure to manage cash flow could lead to the demise of the company, which makes getting paid quickly by clients crucial. ...
Disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on someone’s “ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities” (Section 6(1), Equality Act 2010)....
In the case of Bone v North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust [2016], the Court of Appeal reinstated a tribunal’s decision that an employer’s failure to deal with hostility towards a union member was unlawful detriment. Workers are protected against suffering a detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by their employer if the act or failure to act takes place for the sole or main purpose of preventing or deterring them from taking part in trade union activities at an appropriate time....
Abigail, Desmond, Frank, and Henry and their relatives have already visited our shores. Their North American cousin, Jonas, has been and gone. ...
Commercial Property owners should be aware that the empty property rate relief scheme for newly built commercial property will end on 30 September 2016. ...
The Upper Tribunal, that deals with tax appeals, has upheld a decision that a settlement payment for injury to feelings made in connection with a termination of employment was taxable as a termination payment. ...
An employment tribunal has recently held that an immigration officer, who accepted a bribe and then delayed returning the money and reporting it, was fairly dismissed....
In the immigration team we help people who are applying for many different kinds of visa – from students to skilled workers, visitors to spouses. But what do all visa applications have in common?...
The EAT has overruled a tribunal’s decision, holding the fact that employees over 50 were entitled to early retirement benefits under the pension scheme (making their severance costs much higher than for employees aged under 50) was not a "relevant circumstance"....
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), which advises the government on migration issues, has published areview of Tier 2. ...
This week, regulations 2015 came into effect making any dismissal of an employee on a zero hours contract automatically unfair, if the principal reason for the dismissal is that the employee breached a contractual provision seeking to prohibit him/her from working for another employer. Such provisions are now unlawful. No qualifying period is required to bring such an unfair dismissal claim....
The European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment in a Romanian employment dispute has been widely reported in the national press as giving the green light to employers to monitor employees’ personal emails and electronic messages on work systems....
Clarkslegal has produced a guide on ‘What to expect for 2016’ which clearly sets out all the forthcoming legislative changes, which we hope you find useful in planning your year ahead. ...
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) have recently made changes to the Tier 2 and 5 sponsor guidance published on its website. UKVI already imposes onerous obligations on employers who sponsor employees who are from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) on Tier 2 visas. ...
Clarkslegal corporate team acted for Ludgate Environmental Fund Limited on the sale of its interests in Ignis Biomass Limited....
The general position for someone buying a business or a company is summed up by that dusty but succinct old phrase, “Caveat Emptor”, which the stern Victorian novelist, Trollope, once described as “the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome” (he had probably just bought something that didn’t work and found himself without effective comeback, as there was a distinct lack of consumer protection law in the 19th century). There is, essentially, no obligation on the seller to tell the buyer anything, and the buyer thus needs to “beware”....
As we enter the New Year and Christmas now seems a distant memory, it is a good time to set out the key employment law changes employers can look forward to for the next 12 months. ...
In Kelly v Covance Laboratories Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal held that an employer’s instruction to an employee not to speak Russian (her native language) at work was not direct race discrimination or race harassment. ...
NHS Employers have failed to sufficiently allay the concerns of junior doctors in the ongoing ACAS talks and so strike action is back on with the first of 3 days scheduled for 12 January....