Welcome to Allen & Overy’s Employment Talk blog, sharing with you our views and insights into the latest trends, risks and developments with HR boardroom issues and employment law and practice.
Changes to written particulars of employment from 6 April 2020
27 February 2020 Kalila Bolton
Are you ready for the changes to written particulars of employment which must be given to new recruits from 6 April 2020? Implementing proposals from the government’s Good Work Plan, the new rules form part of the Government’s reform proposals on employment status to ensure that workers know from day one what rights they are › Read More
10 February 2020 Sheila Fahy
Who’d have dreamt it? And the Oscar for the Best Film and the Best Director goes to ….. Yes, Hollywood have awarded the highest accolade to a South Korean, subtitled, film called Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho. This is the first time in the Oscars’ 92-year history that a foreign language film has scooped the › Read More
IR35 – strategies for dealing with it
12 December 2019 Rachel Reeves
IR35 might as well stand for ‘Interchangeable Risk‘ because effectively that is what the legislation scheduled to come into force in April 2020 will create – a means of shifting liability for PAYE from one party in the supply chain to another. The risk of liability for PAYE tax and NICs deductions will shift from › Read More
#MeToo – why education is more effective than legislation
26 November 2019 Rachel Reeves
It is astonishing that, two years on from the inception of the #MeToo movement, the headlines are as prevalent as ever. This past week has seen discussion about one employer using flyers in local pubs and cafes in the vicinity of its office encouraging staff to speak up and report inappropriate conduct. Last month saw › Read More
20 November 2019 David Golubock
Whether it’s the Uber or Lyft driver who gives us a ride home from the office, the bicycle messenger delivering our meal ordered online from Seamless, or the movers we’ve hired on TaskRabbit, anyone living in a major urban center has likely interacted with “gig workers.” These independent, short-term contractors often receive low pay and › Read More
What a man, what a man, what a mighty good man….
19 November 2019 Nicola Bartholomew
There’s a day for everything now: National Pizza Day, International Talk Like a Pirate Day (apparently) and there is even a day for men. Yes. It may surprise you to know that today is International Men’s Day and, perhaps even more surprisingly, it has actually been celebrated for over two decades. Now, my Mum would › Read More
18 November 2019 Sheila Fahy
The short answer is yes, but not in the particular circumstances of this case, Wells and Solari v Cathay Investments and PNC Global Logistics. In this case, the High Court assessed the extent to which a number of incidents of misconduct including obscene WhatsApp messages could be used to justify dismissal for gross misconduct, thereby › Read More