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  • 21 August 2020
  • Employment

Unusual circumstances allow a dismissal with no procedure

In Gallacher v Abellio Scotrail, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that, in rare circumstances, an employee can be fairly dismissed without any procedure, including the absence of an appeal.

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  • 21 August 2020
  • Employment

Equal Pay: material factors don’t just evaporate

In Walker v Co-operative Group Limited, the Claimant was promoted in early February 2014 to the role of Group Chief HR Officer, with a salary of £215,000. This was her first executive role at this level. The Claimant’s salary was increased to £425,000 while her male peers were paid over £500,000 each. The Claimant subsequently brought claims including equal pay.
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  • 14 August 2020
  • Employment

ICO Fines – Don’t fall foul of the rules

Back in March, Cathay Pacific were fined £500,000 for failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data.his used to be the largest fine that the ICO could impose under the Data Protection Act 1998 but the Data Protection Act 2018 now allows for a fine of anywhere up to 20 million euros or 4% of annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.
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  • 12 August 2020
  • Employment

Confidentiality Clauses in Settlement Agreements and NDA’s – has anything changed?

It is well known that a select number of individuals and companies used confidential clauses in Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA's) and Settlement Agreements to prevent the reporting of misconduct to organisations

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  • 12 August 2020
  • Employment

The Increased Prevalence of Settlement Agreements

A settlement agreement is a contract entered into by an employer and employee whereby the employee agrees to waive certain claims they may have in return for some form of consideration. Usually the agreement will involve an end to the employment relationship but not always.

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  • 11 August 2020
  • Employment

Successful court case for unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and equal pay

The Clarkslegal employment team lead by Managing Partner, Monica Atwal were pleased to support Nadine in her successful unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and equal pay case against Splunk.
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  • 10 August 2020
  • Employment

The CBI’s 6-step action plan for “no surprise” local lockdowns

At the end of July we saw the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, make a last-minute announcement on Twitter of new local lockdown impositions, which were due to come into force less than three hours after his tweet had been posted online. The way in which the Government

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  • 06 August 2020
  • IP and Commercial

Series A Funding in the Current Climate – Not all Doom and Gloom?

It is generally accepted that Series A funding is crucial to the development and scale up of early stage business. Funding generally was very competitive prior to lock down, but with the obvious economic pressures brought about by Covid-19, what is the view moving forward and how does a business seeking such funding best prepare for investment discussion?
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  • 06 August 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Business Angel Investment in a post COVID-19 landscape: For Growing Companies

This article sets out the key themes covered in the Clarkslegal webinar. The webinar was hosted by Stuart Mullins, of Clarkslegal LLP, Steve Royffe, of the Dorset Business Angels.Angel Investing is equity finance where a high net worth individual (the “Angel”) or, syndicate/group of Angels, takes shares in your business in return for funds.
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  • 05 August 2020
  • Employment

“Self-employed” hairdresser found to be employee

The Claimant, a hairdresser, sought to pursue claims for unfair dismissal, notice pay, holiday pay and redundancy pay following At a Preliminary Hearing to determine her status, the Judge found the Claimant was in fact an employee for the following reasons:
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  • 29 July 2020
  • Employment

Settlement offers and redundancies: the cost of getting it wrong

Many businesses view settlement offers as a way to cut short usual redundancies timeframe in order to preserve resources for those jobs which remain viable. However, it is crucial that, before making any such offers, employers understand the potential legal risks of not carrying out fair and lawful consultation.
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  • 28 July 2020
  • Commercial Real Estate

Radical planning changes to come into Force

From 1st September 2020 radical reforms will be made to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (“the Use Classes Order”). The changes will be the biggest of their kind since the Use Classes Order was introduced over 30 years ago, and form part of a range of measures introduced by the Government to cut planning ‘red tape’ and allow greater flexibility of land-use to adapt to the changing needs of our high streets and communities.
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