Updates

The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 was signed into law on 4 April 2023. The overall aim of the Act is to introduce new rights for employees in order to support a better balance of work life, family life and caring responsibilities. Several of its key provisions including the right to request […]

The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill (the “Work Life Bill”) aims to increase participation of women in the labour market, as well as the up-take in family related leave. Work Life Balance v Right to Request Remote Working: The Work Life Bill is similar to the Right to Request Remote Working Bill (the […]

The UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd, the first employee competition case to reach the UK’s Supreme Court in over a century. While this looks like a decision which is favourable to employers with loosely drawn restrictive covenants, employers need to continue to be careful […]

On 29 March 2017, CC Solicitors were successful before the Court of Appeal in (Conor Brennan v Irish Pride Bakeries (In Receivership) [2015 No. 547], a case which reiterates that a receivership does not affect a subsisting contract of employment and that receivers are not endowed with different and/or additional powers to an employer in […]