Parents of babies that need hospital care shortly after birth will be entitled to neonatal care leave from April 2025. Leave is a day one right but pay is subject to service and earnings requirements. Employers should...more
As part of its “Smarter regulation to grow the economy” initiative, the UK government is consulting on further changes to TUPE. These include making it clear that TUPE applies to employees, not the wider category of workers,...more
An employee is protected against being dismissed or subjected to a detriment because they took or sought to take parental leave. The issue for the UK EAT in Hilton Foods Solutions Ltd v Wright was whether an employee had...more
We typically expect employment law reform to move slowly during the summer holiday period, but it seems that progress has been possible this year (perhaps without the distraction of consistently good weather in the UK). In...more
In Ponticelli Ltd v Gallagher, the Court of Session in Scotland decided that a share incentive plan transferred under TUPE. Even though the employee’s right to participate was not contained in his contract of employment, it...more