Global employment and labor law update, June 2018
Welcome to our global employment law update. Drawing on our international team's experience, our aim is to keep you up to date with recent key developments to help you manage your global employment...
View ArticleFCA consultation assessing fairness of variation terms in financial...
On 17 May 2018 the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched a consultation on new guidance on the fairness of variation terms in financial services consumer contracts under current legislation...
View ArticleUK HR ebriefing - Supreme Court ruling on employment status
In the latest in a string of recent cases considering employment status, the Supreme Court has upheld an Employment Tribunal’s decision that a plumber was entitled to holiday pay and protection from...
View Article7 Ways to Deal with a Faltering IT Project
Over-budget? Behind schedule? Relationships under strain? Disagreements on changes of scope? Shifting technological backdrop and needs? These are just some of the common symptoms of a faltering IT...
View ArticleEducation HR e-briefing: Government publishes guidance on facility time...
Introduction In March 2017, the Government published the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 (“the Regulations”). These require relevant public sector employers...
View ArticleEducation HR ebriefing - Supreme Court ruling on employment status
In the latest in a string of recent cases considering employment status, the Supreme Court has upheld an Employment Tribunal’s decision that a plumber was entitled to holiday pay and protection from...
View ArticleEducation e-briefing CUC publishes the Higher Education Senior Staff...
Institutions will be acutely aware that the issue of Vice-Chancellor and senior staff pay has been one of the most topical matters in higher education for most of the last 12 months and more. At the...
View ArticleIs your firm incentivising for the right reasons?
In last month’s article, I considered the regulator’s focus on value for money. Business costs play a big part in value and this week I want to look at the costs of staff. In a speech last year...
View ArticleMiFID II finally implemented in Luxembourg
The Luxembourg law of 30 May 2018 on markets in financial instruments (the “Law of 30 May 2018”) and the Grand-Ducal regulation of 30 May 2018 on the protection of financial instruments and funds of...
View ArticleStudent accommodation e-briefing Under 18s in accommodation
Welcome to the sixth in our series of Student Accommodation e-briefs for universities, colleges and private providers. These e-briefs highlight aspects of the student accommodation agreement which...
View ArticleCorporate Governance Reform: what private companies need to know
Background: why is the corporate governance of private companies on the horizon? This week has seen two developments in corporate governance that will affect certain private companies. Private...
View ArticleCAT overturns CMAs excessive pricing decision against Pfizer and Flynn
On 7 December 2016, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued a decision entitled “Unfair pricing in respect of the supply of phenytoin sodium capsules in the UK” (the Decision) addressed to...
View ArticleMary Meekers 2018 Internet Trends Report
Speaking at this year’s Code Conference in California, venture capitalist Mary Meeker recently presented the 2018 edition of her celebrated Internet Trends Report (“ITR”). As mentioned in the ITR...
View ArticleQuarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet
Please click here to download our quarterly financial crime horizon scanning booklet. The booklet summarises key financial crime related legal and regulatory changes expected over the next 18 months...
View ArticleEversheds Sutherland's corporate claims bulletin - May 2018
LIABILITY Philip James Clay v TUI UK LTD (2018) EWCA Civ 1177 The claimant appealed against the dismissal of his claim for damages for personal injury brought against the respondent travel company....
View ArticleUK pensions speedbrief - Clarifying and strengthening trustees investment...
The Government has announced draft regulations proposing a range of measures to increase trustee focus on long term issues such as climate change when exercising their investment powers. There are...
View ArticleAre all Crypto-Assets Cryptocurrency? Lessons for and from issuers and owners
What do companies looking to generate value via crypto-assets, including the issuance of cryptocurrency, do about opening bank accounts? The FCA acknowledged this difficulty in its Regulatory Sandbox...
View ArticleCombatting Extraterritorial Sanctions Updates to the EU Blocking Regulation
On 6 June 2018 the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued a proposal which seeks to reactivate Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/96 (the “Blocking Regulation”), in a bid to protect EU companies...
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