If the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) follow the Advocate General’s recent opinion on holiday entitlement, for those wrongly classified as self-employed, businesses who dispute entitlement to paid annual leave could face large pay outs....
In LAD Media Ltd v ICO, a monetary penalty by the ICO for unsolicited marketing texts has been reduced on appeal by the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights)....
Research commissioned by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has today revealed that a third of construction firms employ overseas workers...
A new study looking at 23 subjects studied at university has suggested that the gender pay gap can start as early as the first year after graduating....
The landslide election of centrist pro-EU Emmanuel Macron in May buoyed the euro and allowed markets to breathe a sigh of relief that France’s most unpredictable election in modern memory was over. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen was soundly defeated, and 39-year-old former investment banker Mr Macron, leader of the nascent La République en Marche (LREM) party, was swept into the Élysée Palace on the promise of a stronger EU, labour reforms and a commitment to globalism...
In Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd, a father succeeded in his claim for direct sex discrimination when he was told that shared parental pay only entitled him to 2 weeks full pay following the birth of his child and not the 14 weeks granted to women on maternity leave....
Basildon Borough Council have been given a £150,000 fine by the Information Commissioner, after a statement in support of a householder’s planning application was published online in full without redacting personal data....
The recent Conservative manifesto has included a pledge to upsurge the Immigration Skills Charge, from £1,000 to £2,000 per year per employee by the end of the Parliament. Stated within their manifesto “skilled immigration should not be a way for government or business to avoid their obligations to improve the skills of the British workforce”....
As of March this year, Android users were able to choose between 2.8 million apps and Apple's App Store remained the second-largest app store with 2.2 million available apps (https://www.statista.com). This is a vast market, and, whilst many, many apps make little or no money for their developers, the odd one may just be gold dust....
Whether in a public works, service or supply contract a bidding consortium must be allowed to amend its bid following tender submission where one key criteria applicable to that consortium had changed....
Not to be confused with the gender pay gap, the gender pension gap is defined as ‘the gap between the pre-tax income received as a pension by women and that received by men'. The consultancy firm Mercer has recently found that this gap in the EU is more than twice the gap between men and women’s earnings, standing at 40%, compared to the gender pay gap of 16%....
This article considers some of the merits and potential pitfalls of proceeding with construction works under a Letter of Intent....
In the recent case of Green v SIG Trading Ltd, the EAT held that the question of whether an employee has a sufficiently strong connection to the UK (to give a tribunal territorial jurisdiction to consider a claim) is an objective rather than a subjective test....
In MPT Ltd v Peel and others, the High Court was asked to grant an interim injunction against two senior employees of MPT who planned to run a competing business after they left MPT and their restrictive covenants had expired. ...
A large percentage of modern leases of business premises include break clauses and virtually all will include provisions restricting the assignment and underletting of the lease. A landlord will generally seek to control the exercise of a tenant’s break and the tenant’s right to assign or underlet its premises as far as possible without damaging any future rent review on the grounds that the lease contains onerous conditions....
Members of the Real Estate Team at Clarkslegal are often asked by clients whether a lease that has the protection of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 is more valuable than a lease which does not have the benefit of such protection....
In a tender for a public works, service or supply contract once a tender has been submitted what is permitted under Directive 2004/18/EC by way of clarification of that tender submission ...
This week, Tech City UK revealed that applications for Tech Nation’s Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa scheme more than quadrupled over the course of last year. Reports show that for 2016-2017, Tech City UK received over 380 applications for endorsements compared to 100 in the previous year. So far, 260 of these applications have been endorsed with the applicants going on to make their application to the Home Office under the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa route. ...
On the 30th and 31st May, Clarkslegal Managing Partner Monica Atwal attended the first India-Commonwealth SME Trade Summit in India, along with other business leaders and high-level policymakers. Among the topics discussed were Brexit, deepening intra-Commonwealth trade, trade facilitation in services and cross-border e-commerce....
If a local authority does not comply, one or more of the unsuccessful bidders may have grounds to challenge the award of the contract. But what about non-bidders? ...