Justifying a retirement age of 65 - there's life in the old dog yet! *

United Kingdom - May 30 2012
As many of you may have seen reported in the press, the Supreme Court has turned down Mr Seldon's appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision that his law firm, Clarkson Wright & Jakes, was entitled to force him out because he had reached the firm's retirement age of 65.

Supreme Court guidance on unfair dismissal claims by employees working abroad *

United Kingdom - April 25 2012
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court gives guidance as to when an employee working abroad for the benefit of an employer’s foreign subsidiary has a sufficiently strong connection to Great Britain to bring an unfair dismissal claim under English law.

TUPE: it can apply to transfer employees who are not employed by the transferor of the business *

European Union, United Kingdom - January 18 2011
For various reasons - including possible tax and National Insurance Contributions savings - it is now common practice for the employees of a business to be employed through a service company, which then provides those employees to work for the operating company within a group structure.