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  • September 30, 2009

    Case law: Employees on sick leave during holiday entitled to take lost leave at another time

    Following a significant European ruling, employers must prepare for claims from employees whose sick leave coincides with their holiday.

  • September 02, 2009

    New personal data guardianship code published

    Businesses will welcome new ‘best practice’ guidance on their responsibilities when handling personal data. In direct response to the number of high-profile data breaches in recent years, the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) have published a personal data guardianship code in an effort to change the culture of organisations towards [...]

  • September 02, 2009

    Whiter Shade of Pale case highlights need to clarify copyright rights

    A dispute about copyright in Procol Harum’s famous song ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’ has highlighted the need to make it clear who owns copyright in works created jointly. Copyright works do not just include songs. Photographs, the words on your web pages, leaflets, newsletters, articles, marketing literature, parts lists, catalogues, tables, manuals and anything else you [...]

  • September 02, 2009

    Round-up of new rules in force from 1 October 2009

    A number of new measures apply from 1 October: Companies Act 2006: new rules on disclosure of directors’ residential addresses (see last month’s Legal Alert for details); also, remaining provisions of the Act that have not yet been brought into force, including those affecting: a company’s formation and constitution; a company’s name, including change of name and similarity [...]

  • September 02, 2009

    Increase in weekly minimum wage for apprentices

    From 1 August 2009, the minimum wage for all apprentices in England increased from £80 to £95 per week. Currently, all apprentices aged 16-18, and those aged 19 and over in their first year as an apprentice, are exempt from being paid the national minimum wage. In 2005, the Learning and Skills Council introduced a requirement [...]