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GDPR – European General Data Protection Regulation By Rhiannon Webster The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2016. A rewrite of European data protection law, the GDPR imposes comprehensive and far reaching obligations. With enforcement after two years, companies need to be…
Job Support Scheme - Chancellor announces increases in the financial support for employers By Deborah Hely In our alert on 25 September we set out an outline of the Government’s new Job Support Scheme (JSS Open) to support “viable” jobs in business who are facing lower demand in the winter due to COVID-19 [insert link]. This scheme was unattractive to…
Employment Matters - Health - October 2020 By Zoë Wigan DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matter focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events occurring with the Employment Law sector.
Job Retention Bonus – Treasury Direction and new employer guidance By Joanne Bell In July, the Government announced that it would pay a bonus to employers who retain employees who have been furloughed until January 2021. The Treasury Direction providing the legal underpinning for the Job Retention Bonus Scheme has now been…
Employment tribunals: amendments to tribunal rules to increase hearing capacity By Zoë Wigan The Government intends to amend the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure to increase the capacity of employment tribunals to hear claims and to reduce bureaucracy.
Right to privacy: will reliance on WhatsApp messages in misconduct proceedings be a breach of the right to privacy? By Zoë Wigan The police force was entitled to rely on officers’ WhatsApp messages in misconduct proceedings.
Confidentiality clauses: a confidentiality term was drafted too widely to be enforceable By Zoë Wigan A contractual confidentiality term which was intended to run indefinitely and covered confidential information about the employer’s “business, products, affairs and finances” as well as trade secrets was too wide to be enforceable.
Unfair dismissal: “mapping” in redundancy situations By Zoë Wigan An employee who resigned after her employer tried to “map” her into a new role, rather than make her redundant, was constructively dismissed.
Disability discrimination: employee suffering from paranoid delusions did not have a disability By Zoë Wigan An employee who suffered from paranoid delusions was not protected against disability discrimination because the adverse effect of the delusions on his day-to-day activities was not likely to last for 12 months.
Employment Matters - October 2020 By Zoë Wigan DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matter focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events occurring with the Employment Law sector.
EPL Update – Amendments to the Employment Tribunal Rules By Louise Bloomfield Employment Practices Liability (“EPL”) insurers, broker and insureds will no doubt be aware that since the abolition of Employment Tribunal fees in 2017, there has been an increase in the number of Employment Tribunal Claims being submitted.…
