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An employee of BG Group has claimed constructive dismissal after resigning following a row over his uploading of his CV onto LinkedIn, the business social networking website. The human resources professional...
SFO launches anonymous whistleblowing reporting system to gather information about bribery
The Serious Fraud Office has launched SFO Confidential – a new facility whereby anyone can report suspicions of bribery or corruption in a confidential way. The SFO insists that the identities will remain...
IPO Guide warns businesses against the sale of fakes at work
The Intellectual Property Office has published a guide which states that businesses need to be vigilant to prevent employees using work equipment and services to sell counterfeit goods. The aim of the...
Question of self-employed status must reflect actual position and not just what contract terms say – Autoclenz v Belcher, Supreme Court
People supplying or receiving services often want to know whether the situation is an employed or self-employed basis, as this can affect whether there are any employment rights, how readily the relationship...
What do flexible working and retirement have in common?
No, that is not the opening line of a bad joke for lawyers!
Both the existing statutory process for an employee to request a flexible working pattern and the now defunct statutory right to request working...
Article 29 Working Party leaves geo-location service providers disorientated after strict data protection opinion about geo-location data
The Article 29 Working Party has concluded an opinion on geo-location services on smart mobile devices (such as smart phones and tablet computers) by saying that they are linked to natural persons and...
Franchisee responsible for wrongful misuse of data by its employee but franchisor rights let down by poor contract wording – MMP v Antal, High Court
Antal and MMP entered into a franchise agreement for MMP to operate a recruitment agency as one of Antal’s franchisees. One of MMP’s employees had a relationship with one of the candidates whom she...
Psychics in the Police – Part III
In a further instalment to the story of Mr Power and his case against the Greater Manchester Police Authority (see part I and part II), Lord Justice Stanley Burnton has, in the Court of Appeal, refused...
An employee’s right to request time off for training: what is the legal position?
I was recently asked to provide an answer to an employment question posed in Jonathan Moules’ ‘Business Questions’ column in The Financial Times newspaper, which appeared in the Saturday 7 May 2011...
Restraint of trade clause not to set up in business within five miles for 12 months was unreasonable and therefore unenforceable – Tim Russ v Simon Robertson, High Court
TR was an estate agency firm. It required its staff to enter into restrictive covenants that lasted for 12 months following termination of the contract. They included an obligation not to solicit TR’s...