Articles in ‘Employment’ Category

Contributing author: Loïs Donna Amoko-Rousselin – Legal Intern at RWK Goodman

Chris Amys and Gabrielle Laurin explain your rights in employment when you’ve experienced a bereavement. Millions of people experience the death of a loved one each year. According to the UK Commission on Bereavement…

The marriage of two companies is an exciting milestone to achieve corporate growth. However, close to 50% of all deals will fail. Bias of excessive optimism and overconfidence could play a part in the…

When scandals make headlines, it can become commonplace – understandably – to hear calls for senior executives to have to pay back any bonuses. Here we look at how this might happen, and what…

The Government has announced a series of immigration reforms to reduce the level of legal migration, which has reached record-breaking figures in accordance with the latest reports. The headline was that the minimum salary…

In a bid to resolve the difficulties faced by people in low paid jobs, the Government has today announced its acceptance of the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations by confirming a 9.8% increase to the…

Non-financial misconduct has long been a regulatory focus in the banking and financial services sector. In the FCA’s view this is because: “A corporate culture that tolerates sexual harassment or other non-financial misconduct is…

The UK Government has published new regulations, significantly changing the way that holiday entitlement and pay should be calculated for workers on permanent contracts but engaged for part of the year or who have…

Many of the businesses we work with are seeing a surge in receiving Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) from their employees. Under the data protection legislation in the UK, any individual has a right…