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The CIPD has published the findings of its annual Health and wellbeing at work survey, conducted among HR professionals in March and April 2023. Key findings include: Sickness absence. The average level of employee sickness absence, at 7.8 days per employee, is at its...
As an insight into the kind of work I do daily, here's a genuine question I received this week. For this client, we recently prepared some new and updated terms and conditions, which included their new warranty. Q: Hi Steven, we’ve been told by a b2b customer that we...
Legal documentation is essential for business security & success. Inc. business plans, partnership agteement, operating agreement, and more.
A Scottish sheriff's court has considered the extent to which the Data Protection Act and GDPR provides an exemption in respect of legal proceedings. The Dunfermline sheriff's court looked at article 5(1)(a) of the UK GDPR (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) and...
An employment tribunal has rejected a claim that a school chaplain suffered discrimination following a sermon he delivered in the school chapel. The sermon had followed the school's adoption of the "Educate and Celebrate" (E and C) programme, aimed at "tackling...
The High Court has considered, in the context of a share purchase transaction, whether the beneficial owner of half the sale shares (B) was liable for fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of warranty claims brought by the buyer (IV), in circumstances where B had...
To enable GPs to focus on the COVID-19 booster programme, the Government has brought in new temporary legislation which allows employees to self-certify for 28 days. Employees can normally self-certify sickness absence for the first seven days only. The new...
The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has held that the IR35 intermediaries rules applied to a Dave Clark a now retired sports presenter providing services to Sky through a personal services company. The individual provided live darts and boxing coverage. Under the...
Trade marks are easy like a Sunday morning, although less so if you’re the EasyGroup - the holding company which owns EasyJet and many other trademarks. It is fair to say that Stelios (who apparently remains as chairman of EasyGroup) and his merry men are no strangers...
On 15 March 2021, the government published updated official statistics on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), revealing that the announcement of the third national lockdown on 4 January 2021 led to a significant increase in the number of jobs furloughed,...
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