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• Landmark vegan ruling provides legal food for thought for employers

  Since its launch six years ago, the Veganuary campaign has inspired more than half a million people in 178 countries to take the pledge and try vegan for January and beyond. It was timely that the first few days of 2020 were filled with media headlines about a legal ruling

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• Gender pay gap zooms into focus at BBC employment tribunal

  The importance of equal pay in the workplace has played a starring role at an employment tribunal involving two of the BBC’s most familiar faces. Samira Ahmed claimed she was underpaid for hosting the audience feedback show Newswatch, when compared to colleague Jeremy Vine for his Points of View programme.

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• Sleep-in staff launch landmark pay case in potential wake-up call to UK care sector

  Alarm bells are ringing in one of the UK’s biggest employment sectors as we await a landmark ruling in a long-running legal battle over pay. The awaited ruling will focus on whether carers who are expected to sleep at their workplace in case they are required overnight should be paid

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• Key steps to guard against the commercial impact of COVID-19

  BUSINESSES are being urged to cast an expert legal eye over the content of client contracts, as well as their own insurance cover, to ensure they are fully protected from any potential disruption caused by COVID-19, a new coronavirus. The outbreak of the deadly infection in China, and the rapid

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• Milners extends range of services by launching Family Law specialism

  MILNERS has broken new ground in its 126-year history by appointing an inaugural Head of Family Law. Pascale Adam joins Milners to spearhead the growth of its emerging family law specialism across its network of offices in Leeds, Harrogate and Pontefract. She brings to the practice – one of the

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• Lawyers’ brace of public inquiries mark ‘legal first’ for Leeds

  A LEEDS law firm is claiming a first for the city as it takes to the national stage this week (Monday October 27) for two of the biggest public inquiries in UK history. While Giles Ward, Senior Partner and Head of Litigation at Milners solicitors, is supporting clients at the

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• Business 0 Employment Tribunal 1 – why a robust social media policy for the workplace is now vital 

  THE own goal scored by Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva in uploading a tweet judged to be racist may trigger further far-reaching repercussions after a recent employment tribunal case. The player hit the newspaper front pages, rather than the usual back pages, after being charged by the Football Association over a tweet in

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• Prompt legal advice a priority for Yorkshire Bank staff facing redundancy as Leeds HQ closes

  TWO of the biggest names on the Yorkshire high street have dealt a hammer blow to the local economy with the announcement of hundreds of redundancies. Just days after Thomas Cook – Britain’s oldest travel agency – collapsed into insolvency, Yorkshire Bank has announced it is closing its Leeds headquarters,

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• Holiday pay rights back under the employment law spotlight as research reveals 1m UK workers miss out

  AS many of us return to work after our annual summer getaway, new research has revealed that as many as one million people are being denied the full holiday pay they are entitled to by law. It’s an employment law topic that is increasingly in the media spotlight – with

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• Milners takes infected blood victims’ campaign to No 10 – and appears on BBC News  

  OUR fight for better compensation for victims of “the worst treatment scandal in the NHS” has been taken to the steps of Downing Street, achieving widespread media coverage. BBC News and the Daily Mail were among those who featured our letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, demanding action in ending

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