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Employment law watch - UK case law update

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • May 15 2013

It has been a busy few weeks with several new interesting employment cases being reported - here is a quick round up of a few that caught our eye:

U.S. Supreme Court limits use of offers of judgment to avoid class actions

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Q: What is easiest way to get rid of a wage and hour class action? A: Making an offer of judgment to moot the named plaintiff's claim by proposing

UK employment tribunal fees - not just for employees!

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2013

The draft Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 (the "Order") has just been published by Parliament, giving us an

Loose lips sink... providers?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Can a medical corporation be directly liable under New York law for breaching its common law fiduciary duty of confidentiality when a non-physician

Aggravated damages for discrimination

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 22 2013

In HM Land Registry v McGlue, the EAT overturned the Tribunal's decision to award £5000 aggravated damages to the Claimant, making clear that there

Beware of unclear pay clauses

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 22 2013

The case of Anderson v London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority acts as a stark warning for employers when drafting contractual pay clauses

Spanish Constitutional Court sides with employer on inspection of an employee's derogatory communications

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • April 18 2013

The Spanish Constitutional Court has dismissed a case brought by an employee whose online communications were inspected by his employer. The opinion

Code of conduct compliance breach not automatically a sufficient reason for employee termination - employers should be cautious of proper local implementation of compliance guidelines

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 2 2013

On 19 December 2012, the French Supreme Court ('Cour de Cassation') ruled over a case that should remind any international organization that the

German Federal Labor Court: works council may itself decide on data protection measures to be applied on its computers

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 20 2013

The German Federal Labor Court had to decide on a work council's demand to be provided with a personal computer with a group account for access to

Higher legal bar for drug alcohol tests?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2013

A federal judge in Pittsburgh dismissed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's challenge to U.S. Steel Corp.'s policy of randomly testing new