Sentences with phrase «redundancy consultations»
Elsewhere, permanent hiring has slowed at the larger firms, with some firms undergoing redundancy consultations, apart from commercial litigation roles within employment law which are bucking the trend.
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The news comes after a recent report that 15 support staff in Dechert's London office were subject to redundancy consultations.
Since returning to private practice he has advised on matters involving senior staff exits, restrictive covenants, discrimination, TUPE, redundancy consultations, team moves, and whistleblowing.
As the number of firms announcing redundancy consultations this week continued to rise — with news of widespread cuts at Berwin Leighton Paisner — new research from Legal Week has found a surprising degree of business confidence among partners in UK law firms.
Denton Wilde Sapte has joined the ranks of London firms launching redundancy consultations, with up to 80 jobs at risk across the...
Denton Wilde Sapte has joined the ranks of London firms launching redundancy consultations, with up to 80 jobs at risk across the firm's London and Milton Keynes offices.
London - based Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy is the second to announce a redundancy consultation, with 10 lawyers in its Hong Kong...
Linklaters» redundancy consultation puts 270 staff at risk in total, with up to 120 lawyers, 40 secretaries and 95 business support staff at risk.
BLM has cut 21 roles in its Southampton office, following a redundancy consultation that began in August.
BLM has begun a redundancy consultation affecting 29 Southampton staff in the latest round of job cuts for the firm.
BLM has confirmed that it is cutting 50 roles among its secretarial and direct support staff, following a redundancy consultation that launched in June.
The group of about 200 staff, who brought the employment tribunal claim in February, have accepted a settlement proposal of eight weeks» pay for each claimant, offered after administrators Quantuma admitted a «technical breach» in the required duration of a redundancy consultation when it was carried out by KWM.
In a recent case the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has found that a «perfunctory and insensitive» redundancy consultation process can impact on the ultimate fairness of a redundancy dismissal.
This case highlights the importance of handling the redundancy consultation process carefully and sensitively, particularly in relation to long - serving employees.
The start of Dickinson Dees» latest staffing review comes just days after DLA Piper launched its second redundancy consultation in the last three months.
Top 50 UK law firm BLM has launched a redundancy consultation that could see more than half of its positions in Leeds go.
The London office was also hit by the departure of corporate partner David Mandell who joined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo last month and is mid-way through a redundancy consultation.
The Newcastle - based firm's D3 arm has been hit by the economic downturn and made 47 members of staff redundant following the completion of a redundancy consultation launched in July, with three fee earners affected.
Dickinson Dees has kicked off a new redundancy consultation in the firm's banking practice.
The fee for the sale is still being decided.The Newcastle - based firm's D3 arm has been hit by the economic downturn and made 47 members of staff redundant following the completion of a redundancy consultation launched in July, with three fee earners affected.
McGrigors has launched a redundancy consultation which could see 40 jobs cuts across the firm's workforce.
Dickinson Dees is set to launch a redundancy consultation in its volume business division.
Pinsent Masons has cut 78 UK legal personal assistant (PA) roles as a result of a redundancy consultation that started in September.
He has also frequently argued EU law points in the Supreme Court, for example in United States of America v Nolan [2015] 3 WLR 1105 (about collective redundancy consultation and the relationship between EU law and domestic law), Ministry of Justice v O'Brien [2013] ICR 499 (about objective justification in discrimination cases), and Russell v Transocean [2012] ICR 185 (about what counts as «working time»).
Dickinson Dees has kicked off a new redundancy consultation, with up to 90 jobs at the firm under threat.
The subject matter of the Employment law work that John regularly undertakes spans the whole range of Employment law, including injunction work (industrial action, restrictive covenants and confidentiality cases), bonus cases, cases relating to changes to terms and conditions, discrimination, equal pay, collective redundancy consultation etc..
The UK's Allen & Overy announced in February a plan to lay off 450 jobs in a redundancy consultation.
Ashurst has confirmed that it has launched a redundancy consultation that puts 80 % of its London secretarial roles at risk.
Pinsent Masons has kicked off a redundancy consultation that puts all of its UK legal personal assistants (PA) at risk, with up to 100 jobs set to go.
Maclay Murray & Spens is set to cut up to 30 jobs after announcing a redundancy consultation with both legal and support staff at the firm.
LG has begun a redundancy consultation which is set to affect 18 individuals across the firm, covering both lawyers and support staff.
LG has concluded the redundancy consultation it began last month, with 16 employees - including eight fee earners - asked to leave the firm.
LG has concluded the redundancy consultation it began last month, with 16 employees — including eight fee earners — asked to leave the firm.
There are of course other obligations and protections which derive from EU law, such as the Data Protection Act 1998, and collective redundancy consultation requirements.
A charity breached its collective redundancy consultation obligations when it failed to start consultation «promptly».
From the law on collective redundancy consultation to minimum paid holidays to discrimination laws, the EU has been a major influence.
Herbert Smith, which announced in April a redundancy consultation at its London HQ, targeting 84 positions, will not need to lay anyone...
My Employment Law Brief last November (see 157 NLJ 7297 pp 1606 — 07) concentrated on the renewed legal profile of the redundancy consultation provisions in the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1992, s 188.
Parabis Group has launched a redundancy consultation which could lead to the closure of its Bristol and Colchester offices.
CMS UK, Nabarro and Olswang have kicked off a redundancy consultation with support staff across all three firms, ahead of the completion of their merger this May.
The Advocate - General concluded that UK law does comply with the Collective Redundancies Directive (the «Directive») and that the UK is allowed to limit collective redundancy consultation obligations to cases where the proposed redundancies are at the same establishment.
Slaughter and May has concluded a redundancy consultation which will see 44 secretarial staff leave the firm, the vast majority of which have opted to take voluntary redundancy.
On 8th January, Clifford Chance the world's largest law firm announced the redundancy consultation period for up to 80 of their London office lawyers and, yesterday Allen & Overy, another magic circle firm, announced the likely redundancy of up to 10 lawyers from their Hong Kong office.
Whilst redundancy dismissals should not take place before the transfer, in many business sales it should be possible to start collective redundancy consultation (and therefore get the clock running on the relevant statutory timeframes) before the TUPE transfer.
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The business secretary will set up a «call for evidence» on plans to reduce the consultation period on planned redundancies from 90 days to 30.
The lobbying group also wants to cut the consultation period for collective redundancies to 30 days from 90 days.
The Home Access programme was concluded and not extended; the BSF programme, which contained extensive ICT investment, was cancelled; Harnessing Technology funds disappeared; ICT advisers in local authorities started their redundancy «consultation» and schools no longer had to operate a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or offer online home - school links.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said her union would challenge any schools adopting interviews and assessments for redundancy without consultation or agreement.
In the UK, a consultation process must take place when this number of redundancies are announced - how long depends on the number of employees affected.
However, it should always be remembered that if this is likely to result in 20 or more employees being «dismissed» then collective consultation is triggered, because of the wide definition of «redundancy» in the Trade Union & Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.