Recent news

Latest items of recent news relevant to United Kingdom as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.

United Kingdom: The 2022 deadline for gender pay gap reporting is approaching

The next pay gap reporting deadline for large private sector organisations is 4th April 2022 …

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United Kingdom: New information for payslips

HMRC has asked employers to include a message on payslips to say “1 …

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United Kingdom: Marks and Spencer announces enhanced pay and benefits package

Marks and Spencer introduces new health checks and financial benefits …

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United Kingdom: Women footballers in England win landmark maternity benefits

Top female footballers finally win enhanced maternity rights …

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United Kingdom: Co-op workers win legal argument in equal pay fight

The latest UK Supermarket Chain to be embroiled in a class action equal pay claim is the Cooperative …

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United Kingdom: Reducing employment status categories

A Bill designed to reduce the current three employee status categories to two is currently before the House of Commons …

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United Kingdom: Free trade negotiations with India

Free trade agreement talks have begun in New Delhi on a deal that could increase UK exports to India by £28BN (US$38BN) a year …

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United Kingdom: Deloitte extends flexible working to public holidays

Deloitte is following Grant Thornton by introducing public holiday anytime rules, but in the stated interests of diversity and inclusion …

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United Kingdom: Service out of the jurisdiction in defamation and GDPR claims (Soriano v Forensic News LLC and others)

The territorial scope of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) has been questioned before the UK Court of Appeal …

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United Kingdom: MoJ faces £17.5m GDPR fine over subject access request backlog

The Ministry of Justice has been served with an enforcement order for infringing the GDPR …

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United Kingdom: All plan B Covid restrictions, including mask wearing, to end

Restrictions on the population due to the pandemic are now lifted, with no further requirements to work from home …

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United Kingdom: One in five young workers leaving roles due to poor parental leave

The importance of parental leave policies to the recruitment of 18-34 year olds has been highlighted by a study commissioned by the communications company Vodafone …

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United Kingdom: Digital right-to-work checks to become permanent from April 2022

Digital right to work checks will soon be possible using a new government Home Office system …

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United Kingdom: Cost of living crisis

Rising food costs drove up prices last month, with eight of the nine food groups increasing the headline rate …

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United Kingdom: What to expect in employment bill?

The long-awaited employment Bill will probably begin its passage through parliament this Spring …

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