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New legislation was passed earlier this year to make various changes to the flexible work regime. Regulations have now been introduced to make the right to request flexible working a "day one" right from 6 April 2024.
On 4 December 2023, the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, announced a series of measures aimed at reducing migration, including a significant increase to the minimum income level which a couple need to have available to them.
When negotiating a lease, the parties will need to agree to the term of the lease, whether the tenant will benefit from security of tenure and whether the landlord requires additional security in support of the tenant performing their lease obligations.
A recent report in GP Online suggests that practices may have to find ex-partners and pay them sums of money in respect of historically underpaid seniority payments.
The UK pricing scheme for pharma has been a major source of concern, mainly over the pricing mechanism and rebate scheme. This saw a rise in the rebate pharma has had to pay to 26.5% in 2023, but a new deal has now been announced.
The UK Government has launched a new scheme to support the application of AI in life sciences and healthcare, with a £100 million fund to focus on areas where AI is hoped to make a difference in curing previously incurable diseases.
One of the big questions concerning the use of AI relates to copyright. Both training and using an AI system might involve unlawful copying or publication of copyright works.
A claimant who settled whistleblowing claims under a COT3 agreement could not bring new proceedings based on new alleged detriments she had suffered relating to the same disclosures.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has found that a redundancy dismissal was unfair in light of the absence of meaningful consultation at the formative stage of the process.
The Government is consulting on the implementation of Minimum Service Levels in education during strikes, following the introduction of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023.
The Court of Appeal has held that courts can lawfully stay proceedings at any stage, in order to allow (or compel) parties to engage in non-court based alternative dispute resolution.