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12 Jan 2021 15:14
Sunyana Sharma extols the benefits of secondments for barristers in Counsel magazineIn July 2013, barrister Sunyana SharmaSunyana SharmaCall: 2006 started a whole new area of regulatory and disciplinary law when she took up a secondment as a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) case presenter. For six months, she presented NMC cases up and down the country. The birth of her daughter more...
12 Jan 2021 12:17
Brexit and employment lawOn 24 December 2020 the UK and EU reached three agreements setting out the future relationship between the parties. Those three agreements comprise of the trade and co-operation agreement, the security of classified information agreement and finally the Euratom UK nuclear co-operation agreement. For more...
9 Dec 2020 17:17
Matthew Curtis edits the Employment and Discrimination team's December newsletterMatthew Curtis welcomes you to our last Employment and Discrimination newsletter of 2020 and thanks this month's contributors: Stephen Wyeth, Karen Moss, Colin McDevitt, Sarah Bowen, Lachlan Wilson, Andrew MacPhail and Joseph England. You will find this month’s newsletter packed full of 3PB news, more...
19 May 2020 16:24
DEALING WITH EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS: WHISTLEBLOWING AND THE EQUALITY ACTEmployment and discrimination specialist Tom Wood has written about dealing with employee complaints as the UK begins to return from lockdown. Follow the link to read the article. If you require any further information, please contact our Employment team clerks. more...
30 Mar 2020 14:48
Which employees can I furlough and how does the furloughing process work?Further details about the ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’ have been announced by the government, outlining how the scheme will operate, and who will be eligible. Many businesses will now be considering what, if any, legal implications there may be in respect of how the furloughing process works. more...
25 Mar 2020 12:57
What does Manchester City’s Champions League ban have to do with human rights?Last month European football’s governing body, UEFA, announced that English champions Manchester City had been fined 30 million Euros and banned from the Champions League – the most illustrious competition in European football. The Adjudicatory Chamber of UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) more...
25 Mar 2020 11:13
Working in the UK construction industry during the coronavirus pandemicGeorgina Dietrich, a pupil barrister at 3PB, writes about the practical and legal challenges facing those working in the construction sector during the current pandemic. Read the full article here : Legal and practical challenges of working in the construction industry during the coronavirus more...
23 Mar 2020 12:16
George Rowell successfully appeals tribunal decision in football club minimum wage caseCommissioners for HM Revenue and Customs v Middlesbrough Football and Athletic Company (1986) Ltd (Case UKEAT/0234/19/LA) What the Employment Appeal Tribunal Decided Middlesbrough Football and Athletic Company (1986) Ltd (“the Club”) operated a payroll deduction arrangement allowing its employees to more...
2020: ARE YOU READY FOR THE STORM IN THE LEGAL INDUSTRY? AGILITY AND FLEXIBILITY WILL BE ESSENTIAL TO SURVIVAL
David Kinnear is a Barrister and Mediator. He is also CEO and Publisher of High Performance Counsel (HPC), tracking the evolution of the modern legal industry. He can always be reached via email at dkinnear@hipcounsel.com. Note: This Op Ed. first appeared in High Performance Counsel (HPC) Magazine more...
15 Mar 2020 17:39
Coronavirus time off from work: your right to get paidThe impact of Coronavirus (Covid 19) on employees at work This blog is based on a selection of questions that we have recently received from employees about absence from work and pay/sick pay rights related to Coronavirus – also known as Covid 19. With the current spread of the virus in the UK (as more...
9 Mar 2020 13:40
Employee Fraud: A Sorry TaleEmployee fraud is dramatically on the increase – figures from ActionFraud showed that businesses in the UK lost £682m through fraud in 2018-2019, with the largest category being that carried out by employees, at £214m. It is unsurprising that defrauded employers may want to take recovery action when more...
9 Mar 2020 13:26
COVID-19 or "coronavirus": employment considerationsWorkers will now receive statutory sick pay from their first day off work as opposed to the previous rules, which saw them having sick pay from their fourth day off. The change has been brought in as a temporary measure to respond to the coronavirus update, but will lapse when it is no longer more...
6 Mar 2020 13:39
SAMIRA AHMED WINS EQUAL PAY CLAIM AGAINST THE BBCEqual work An employment tribunal held that the work done by Jeremy Vine on Points of View and Samira Ahmed on Newswatch was equal work. The tribunal held that the work of Samira Ahmed and Jeremy Vine when presenting their respective programmes was ‘like work’ i.e. work that is the same or broadly more...
22 Jan 2020 20:24
10 Tips for Returning from Maternity Leave and Beating the Bosses10 Tips for returning from maternity leave by Nicola Welchman 📷 You are a highly respected professional – you are trusted by the directors; you have recruited a fantastic team; you achieved all your KPIs for the last 5 years and you were on target for a bonus to be paid at 120% of target. You’re more...
13 Dec 2019 10:58
3PB's Michael Vere-Hodge QC and Nicholas Cotter in successful prosecution of Center Parcs3PB's regulatory barristers Michael Vere-Hodge QC and Nicholas Cotter, representing the local authority, successfully prosecuted Center Parcs in Woburn. The site pleaded guilty, after a jury were sworn, to two counts that reflected a very serious health and safety breach that had put the employees more...
5 Dec 2019 11:55
Perspective: being a Muslim woman at the BarAs the Bar Council marks 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, which first allowed women to practise as lawyers, Nabila Mallick of No5 Barrister’s Chambers, speaks about her experience as a Muslim woman at the Bar. When I was at Bar school I was one of four Muslim state school more...
4 Dec 2019 16:18
Do they have the right to work: a review of Badara v Pulse Healthcare LtdEmployers who engage workers with no right to work in the UK can suffer severe consequences, including significant civil penalties. However, dismissing workers or refusing to employ workers based on a genuine, but incorrect, view that they have no right to work can leave employers open to claims by more...
5 Nov 2019 10:58
3PB's Employment and Discrimination Newsletter - November 2019Richard Owen-Thomas edits 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Sarah Bowen, Katherine Anderson, Grace Nicholls and Naomi Webber. Case summaries cover: Bessong v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust UKEAT/0247/18/JOJ - Third party harassment Mustard v Flowers more...
24 Oct 2019 12:26
Post-Brexit Immigration and Recruitment to the Veterinary SectorEU/EEA/CH contribution to the Veterinary Profession. According to The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons there are 23,220 vets working in the UK[1]. Speaking at the Official Veterinarian Conference 2017, Nigel Gibbens (former CVO) told his audience “more than 90% of people working within the FSA more...
8 Oct 2019 10:08
3PB's Employment and Discrimination Newsletter - October 2019Lachlan Wilson and Mathew Gullick edit 3PB's latest Employment & Discrimination newsletter, including contributions from Sarah Clarke. Case summaries cover: L v Q Ltd, [2019] EWCA Civ 1417 - The Court of Appeal affirms the importance of the principle of open justice in the context of Employment more...
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