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Whistleblowing: When are claims in the public interest?

The Court of Appeal has failed to resolve uncertainty over whether a complaint about a breach of a worker’s own employment contract can amount to a protected disclosure, explain Christopher Fisher and Tanem Taskin ‘To be protected by the whistleblowing legislation, a worker must have made a protected disclosure.’ In Chesterton Global Ltd v Nurmohamed …

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The Year Ahead: 2017 and all that

Will Hampshire and Richard Kenyon outline ten key developments that the next 12 months have in store for employers and their advisers ‘In 2017, we can expect more disruption as new technology and employment rights collide within the arena of the national and international political battles to come.’ Back at the beginning of the 19th …

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Legal News: Employment update

Jo Broadbent and Sarah Parkin round up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘The public interest test introduced in 2013 may not in practice make it significantly more difficult for employees to pursue whistleblowing claims based on complaints about their individual treatment.’ Payment for covenant did not make it enforceable In …

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Whistleblowing: What does ‘in the public interest’ mean?

Following two recent EAT cases, employers face the renewed prospect of workers receiving whistleblowing protection for disclosing breaches of their own employment contract, warns Sarah Ozanne ‘It is noteworthy that the legislation does not define public interest. Nor does it require that the disclosure be in the public interest, just that the worker has a …

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The Year Ahead: Ten predictions for 2016

Sarah Parkin rounds up the key employment law cases and legislative developments that practitioners can expect in the coming year ‘2016 looks set to be an interesting year for employment practitioners and in-house counsel. The top ten developments to look out for are outlined in this article.’ With a number of significant Court of Appeal …

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Whistleblowing: EAT rules on the public interest test

David von Hagen reviews a recent case interpreting the amendments made two years ago to the law on public interest disclosures ‘It would seem that the primary aim of the public interest test was to reverse Sodexho and prevent whistleblowing claims that relied on a breach of a legal obligation that only applied to the …

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