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IT’s role in protecting business data when people move

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 19 2008

What happens in your company when an employee leaves, taking customer or database information, copies of programs or code, or business critical information?

Infringement of database rights by ex-employees

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 21 2008

On 20 December 2007, Mr Justice Peter Smith handed down his judgment in a case brought by Crowson seeking to restrain the Defendants from using confidential information and requiring them to deliver up copies of documents containing confidential information

Employment update: harassment

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 23 2007

It is only recently (in 2005) that harassment has been categorised as a separate claim under discrimination law

Unfair dismissalstatutory disciplinary and dismissal procedures

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 23 2007

The statutory procedures are not concerned with procedural details

Are you ready for the Equality Bill?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 23 2009

The Equality Bill is a bold piece of legislation that will revolutionise anti-discrimination law as we know it today

Is believing in climate change a protected belief?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 23 2009

This case addressed the question of whether holding a strong belief in climate change could gain protection as a philosophical belief under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (the "Regulations"

Stopping pay brings employment to an end

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 29 2009

The case of Radecki v Kirklees Metropolitan Council reached the Court of Appeal just before Easter

A ‘worker’ is entitled to paid holiday; an independent contractor is not

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 29 2009

In the case of Premier Groundworks v Jozsa the question was whether a contract to provide groundwork services for a building contractor entitled the claimant to receive the basic statutory minimum paid leave under the Working Time Regulations

Time limits for equal pay claims

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 28 2009

The Court of Appeal (by a majority of two to one) has upheld the EAT decision in the case of Gutridge and others v Sodexo and another about how to deal with equal pay claims where there has been a TUPE transfer

Redundancy - how to select an appropriate ‘pool’

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 28 2009

In Lomond Motors Ltd v Clark the employer had decided that it needed fewer accountants