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Michael Hodgson, Employment Law Solicitor at Thorntons, comments on the attempt by Deliveroo couriers to gain union recognition. A number of Deliveroo couriers have announced they are seeking legal action in the hope to achieve trade union recognition and other workers’ rights. This marks the first serious union attempt to challenge the so-called gig economy […]
PwC comments ahead of 'Equal Pay Day' in the UK - which marks the date designated by the Fawcett Society that women are effectively working for free from 10th November to the end of the calendar year due to the gender pay gap. Laura Hinton, executive board member and head of people at PwC, said: […]
Before UK and EU officials get down to the detailed work of unpicking laws and drafting the transitional measures to govern Brexit, they may first have to deal with 40 billion euros the UK should pay into EU coffers to serve out its time as a full EU member. The money is expected to become […]
The timescales proposed by HMRC for the implementation of Making Tax Digital (MTD) is unrealistic and poses a substantial risk to SMEs, according to ICAS, the professional body for chartered accountants. While ICAS supports the overall objectives of MTD, which is set to become mandatory from April 2018, it has significant reservations about the planned […]
A leading Scottish law expert is urging people to check their wills as the law of succession sees its most significant overhaul in 50 years this November. According to Murray Etherington of Thorntons, some commentators view the reforms as a ‘tidying up exercise’ – but he has cautioned this is not the case and the […]
Germany’s small businesses are the most optimistic about their own economy according to the inaugural Global Business Monitor report from international business funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS). Nearly three-quarters (73%) of German SMEs say their national economy is performing well in the global study that surveyed business owners in the US, Germany, UK, Poland, Hong […]
The judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been predicted to 79% accuracy using an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed by researchers in UCL, the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania. The method is the first to predict the outcomes of a major international court by automatically analysing case […]
What happens to employees when a company goes bankrupt? Recently, Fox News reported the dilemma faced by both business and employees when a large enterprise runs out of cash. While employees are usually worried about covering the bills, maintaining health insurance coverage and filing for unemployment, crew members onboard ships owned by Hanjin Shipping face […]
Companies who allow their customers to breastfeed in public should extend the same rights to their employees, says Tayside solicitors firm Miller Hendry. The warning follows the high-profile case of airline company easyJet, which failed to accommodate requests from cabin crew to vary their duties in such a way as to enable them to express […]
This afternoon, Uber drivers won the right to be classed as workers rather than self-employed. The ruling by a London employment tribunal means drivers for the ride-hailing app will be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the National Minimum Wage. Steven Eckett, employment solicitor at Gardner Leader solicitors: The Employment Tribunal's decision […]
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