Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to United Kingdom as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
United Kingdom: Agency workers and the right to be informed of vacancies
Employers may interpret Agency Workers Regulations narrowly by merely informing such workers about available vacancies …
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United Kingdom: Recycling firm admits causing manslaughter of employee who died of fatal head injuries
Two company Directors and a Health and Safety Manager have been found guilty of negligence after an employee was fatally injured …
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United Kingdom: John Lewis Partnership restores staff bonus
The curtailing of losses last year has meant that John Lewis Partnership has been able to resume payment of its annual bonus …
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United Kingdom: Plan unveiled to get more people in Wales into work
£200m programme – Jobs Growth Wales+ – has been launched …
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United Kingdom: Aviva hands company shares to staff as a thank you
The Insurance Group Aviva has announced that it will be giving £1,000 (US$1,315) worth of shares to each of its 22,000 employees around the globe …
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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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