Insights

5th January 2016

In the recent case of Pnaiser v NHS England and Coventry City Council, Ms Tennant, a referee for the Claimant, fell into the trap of giving a negative verbal reference regarding the Claimant’s significant absence from work, which resulted in the Claimant’s job offer being withdrawn and both parties being found liable for disability discrimination.

8th December 2015

Anna Wood looks at the most important phrase in construction – that has no legal definition!

8th December 2015

This month, we interviewed Nicola Allen of David Allen Associates.

8th December 2015

Each year, Cotswold Life’s Business and Professional Magazine invites industry experts from across the Cotswolds to highlight the region’s best family businesses in a number of categories for The Annual Cotswold Life Family Business Awards. Head of Private Client and Partner at BPE, Elizabeth Saunders, was among them.

1st December 2015

The concept of “redundancy” for collective consultation purposes has always been interpreted quite widely. However, businesses may now need to think even more “creatively” following a recent European case, which found that an employee resigning in response to a pay cut imposed by an employer for economic reasons should be treated as a “redundancy” and should be taken into account in deciding whether the threshold for collective consultation was triggered.

1st December 2015

Businesses may now need to think more “creatively” following a recent European case, which found that an employee resigning in response to a pay cut imposed by an employer for economic reasons should be treated as a “redundancy” for collective consultation purposes.