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30th March 2023Sky Sales Advisor who gave customers his personal mobile number wins unfair dismissal claim
An employee who was sacked for sending a customer’s details to a colleague using his personal mobile phone has successfully claimed unfair dismissal, even though he admitted wrongdoing. Why did the employer lose at the tribunal?
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28th March 2023
Football and Employment Law
Antonio Conte’s tirade against his own players was remarkable to see. Public criticism can be a hard pill for pro-stars to swallow but when it comes from their manager, it poses some interesting employment law questions.
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14th March 2023Data Centre Excess Heat being used to heat a swimming pool
This is a great news story - using the excess heat from one economic activity to energy-subsidise a social good.
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14th March 2023An important reminder of the rules on fair dismissal!
An utterly mind-boggling case -- Dumigan v Mount School -- where the claimant, a veteran teacher was dismissed for declining to attend a staff meeting to care for her mother, 90, who had been recently diagnosed with cancer.
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14th March 2023Fire and Rehire – A death knell?
I can't believe that it is a year on from the P & O sackings which caused such consternation in the press at the time but actually resulted in no real action being taken by the Government. It is a useful reminder that it is not only the seafarers who are vulnerable to the possibility of fire and rehire.
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13th March 2023Revocation and Reform of EU Employment Law
I received a notification on Friday last week that the Retained EU Bill had reached the report stage at the House of Lords and currently it is still on track for taking effect in December 2023.
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13th March 2023Proposal to extend redundancy protections for pregnant employees and new parents
On 21 October 2022, the government announced that it was backing the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill.
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13th March 2023Intervention in free markets, or protecting investors? Considering the moral choice
The last-minute rescue of SVB raised in some economists minds important "moral" questions, both about free markets and also the responsibility of government and regulators to look after savers - the challenge being made by those who object to the rescue steps being taken, is that by bailing out banks like SVB it is distorting market forces rather than simply letting the free market take its course.
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13th March 2023Strictly cybersecurity: strict liability in cybersecurity is coming
Pillar III of the new U.S cyber security strategy is to “Shape Market Forces to Drive Security and Resilience”. This far reaching ambition makes sense in that it recognises the importance of cybersecurity to business and seeks to leverage market power and innovation to solve this major problem.
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