Insights

9th June 2017

BPE's Corporate Team recently advised the shareholders of Cotswold Tool & Plant Hire Limited on a share sale

7th June 2017

BPE Solicitors held a State of the Economy dinner for senior business figures from 13 organisations. An evening of spirited debate showed that the impacts of globalism are keenly felt on the doorsteps of many county firms.

6th June 2017

Anna Wood, Senior Associate in the BPE Construction & Engineering team, has been elected Vice Chair of Constructing Excellence Gloucestershire Club

6th June 2017

In this article, Sarah Lee considers a recent case where the Government Legal Service paid a high price for requiring a job applicant with Asperger's Syndrome to sit a psychometric test, and she gives some useful reminders on how to avoid disability discrimination in your recruitment procedures.

6th June 2017

Chris Aldridge looks at the Scottish Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case of Fulton & anor v Bear Scotland Ltd in what is hopefully the last you’ll hear from us for a while about this point.

6th June 2017

This article considers recent EAT guidance in three combined appeals of Focus Care Agency Ltd v Roberts, Frudd v The Partington Group Ltd and Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake in respect of "sleep-in" shifts for national minimum wage purposes. There have been a number of cases dealing with working time and on-call time. The appeals in these cases however explored the question: are employees entitled to the national minimum wage whilst on call or sleeping at work?