This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) a webinar from Lexis+ UK Employment team member Cathy Hoar, and Stephen Ratcliffe of Baker & McKenzie looking at some of the most significant changes contained in the Employment Rights Bill, (2) analysis by Victoria Hordern of Taylor Wessing LLP of the Data (Use and Access) Bill, (3) a successful paternity leave sex discrimination employment tribunal claim, (4) notice that all employment tribunal online services (affecting submission of ET1s, ET3s and digital applications) will be temporarily unavailable between 18:00 and 23:00 on Monday 16 December 2024 due to a planned upgrade, (5) our new Practice Note providing a destination table showing how the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 (ET Rules 2024), in force from 6 January 2025, correspond to the ET Rules 2013 which they replace, (6) our new Precedent comprising a set of clauses that may be inserted by a customer into a contract with a supplier to help the customer (as an employer) comply with its duty...
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Micklefield clausesWhat is a Micklefield clause?It is common for employee share plans to provide that, on termination of employment (or when an employee is given or receives notice of termination of employment), subsisting share awards will be forfeited and subsisting share options will lapse.It is
Financial clean break orders in family proceedingsDuty of the court to consider a clean breakAlthough there is no presumption in favour of there being a financial clean break between parties on divorce, the court is under a duty to consider whether it would be appropriate to exercise its powers so
Late payment penalties—inheritance taxWhile interest often accrues on overdue tax, the late payment of certain taxes may also attract a penalty. For information on the interest accruing on overdue tax, see Practice Notes: IHT—payment deadlines on death—Interest on IHT and Interest on late paid
Contributory negligence in personal injury claimsContributory negligence is a partial defence which can lead to a discount in damages.Other defences may also be relevant. See Practice Notes: Did the claimant consent to the risk of injury? and Was the claimant involved in an illegal activity?If a
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