In just under 12 months' time, on 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force. The GDPR will make massive changes to UK data protection laws. How will your recruitment business be affected?
Almost all staffing businesses will have experienced the situation where one of their recruitment consultants leaves their job, joins a new agency and takes client and candidate data with them which they use to compete with their previous employer.
We are regularly asked to advise on the terms of business provided by hirers for the supply of contractors (temporary workers and independent contractors) by staffing businesses.
In Thomas v BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory and Property Management UK Ltd, the EAT has confirmed that a "perfunctory and insensitive" consultation process can impact on the fairness of a redundancy dismissal.
The government has launched a consultation to obtain views on the draft regulations for the calculation, payment and reporting of the apprenticeship levy which comes into effect in April 2017.
The vote to leave the EU on 23 June 2016 does not of itself change anything for EEA nationals currently living and exercising a Treaty Right in the UK.
The Court of Appeal has now passed down its judgment in Lock v British Gas on whether the four weeks' of statutory holiday pay derived from European law should include an element of results-based commission.
The government has announced its intention to reform the rules which apply to recruitment businesses supplying personal service company contractors into public sector bodies
The government has launched a call for evidence asking for views on the impact and use of non-compete clauses to consider whether action is needed to restrict their use to ensure the UK's labour market is competitive, flexible and effective.
