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Sex discrimination: inflating redundancy score of employee on maternity leave

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

In Eversheds Legal Services Ltd v De Belin the EAT upheld a tribunal's decision that a law firm discriminated against a male lawyer on the ground of his sex when, in a redundancy selection exercise, it inflated the score of a female colleague who was on maternity leave

Paternity leave

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 (the APL Regulations) came into force on 6 April 2011 to regulate the exercise of the right which will apply to parents of a baby due on or after 3 April 2011 and to adoptive parents who are notified that they have been matched with a child on or after that date

Agency worker was not employee despite his integration into client's business

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

In Tilson v Alstom Transport the Court of Appeal upheld the EAT's decision that an agency worker was not employed by the end user of his services, despite the control that the end user exercised over his work

Transfer of confidential information and repudiatory breaches of contract

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

In Brandeaux Advisers (UK) Ltd and others v Chadwick the High Court has held that an employee was in fundamental breach of contract when she sent large amounts of her employer's confidential information to her private e-mail address

No bonus payable under PILON where contract terminated before due date

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

In Locke v Candy & Candy Ltd the Court of Appeal considered whether a bonus payments are due as part of an employee's pay in lieu of notice (PILON

Retirement age

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

The Default Retirement Age ("DRA") was abolished with effect from 6 April 2011 (subject to transitional provisions for employees who have been notified of the intended retirement before 6 April 2011

Taxation of termination payments and P45

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

Whilst there will not be any changes to the tax treatment of termination payments, the way that such payments are treated for PAYE purposes has changed

Employer vicariously liable for loss caused by employee's theft

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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June 3 2011

In Brink's Global Services Inc and others v Igrox the Court of Appeal held that an employer was liable for loss caused by the theft of a third party's goods by one of its employees

Important news the Equality Act in force on 1 October

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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September 29 2010

As you will be aware from previous Equality and Diversity updates, the Equality Act 2010 is a bold piece of legislation that will have a profound effect on anti-discrimination law as we know it

Equality Bill update

Bird & Bird
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United Kingdom
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January 6 2010

The Equality Bill, the Government's ambitious proposal to harmonise and strengthen anti-discrimination law, is still progressing through Parliament and remains on schedule to receive royal assent in Spring 2010