HMRC investigating 100 firms for using unpaid interns *

United Kingdom - April 30 2013
The UK Employment Relations Minister, Jo Swinson, has given HMRC a list of 100 companies accused of using unpaid interns. The list, compiled by…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Alex Denny , Emma Vennesson.

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Knowledge of disability *

United Kingdom - April 30 2013
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in Patel v Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd UKEAT/0481/12 has upheld the decision of an Employment Tribunal (ET) to strike…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Alex Denny , Emma Vennesson.

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TUPE and making a business more attractive *

United Kingdom - April 30 2013
The Court of Appeal has held in Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine 2012 ICR 520 that where an administrator's reason for a dismissal is to make a…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Alex Denny , Emma Vennesson.

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The Italian Job: Italy's answer to the green card - the EU Blue Card *

Italy - April 29 2013
As the euro zone's third largest economy, Italy has one of the highest inbound net migration rates in the European Union (ahead of both the U.K. and…

Co-authors: Marco Mazzeschi , Katrina Cooper.

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The limits of dismissals for ‘some other substantial reason' *

United Kingdom - March 28 2013
The EAT has held in Handshake Ltd v Summers UKEAT/0216/12 that an employer could not rely on 'some other substantial reason' (SOSR) to justify a…

Co-authors: Victoria Pengelly , Alex Denny .

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