Companies House has issued new guidance to help directors comply with regulations relating to identifying and recording who owns or controls the business. The owner or the person who makes the key decisions is known as a Person with Significant Control (PSC) or the ‘beneficial owner’. Companies must identify their PSC’s when registering with Companies House.
Continue reading →An unmarried woman has won the right to receive compensation after her long-term partner died due to medical negligence. Jacqueline Smith lived with her partner John Bulloch for 16 years until he died in 2011. His doctors had failed to diagnose that he was suffering from an infection. If he had been married, his wife would have received compensation of £11,800 following a medical negligence claim.
Continue reading →Chancellor Philip Hammond has abolished stamp duty for most first-time home buyers in England and Wales. In his autumn budget, he announced that the first £300,000 of the price of a property will be exempt from tax for people entering the housing market for the first time. The change came into effect immediately.
Continue reading →A betting shop manager has won her unfair dismissal claim after she was sacked for refusing to accept a new contract on a lower pay grade. Nicola Dinham had worked as a manager for William Hill for 18 years. The company restructured its employment model, merging the roles of shop manager and deputy manager into one new position. The new contract offered to Miss Dinham meant her annual salary would have fallen from £25,549 to £20,721.
Continue reading →Uber drivers should be classified as workers even when they are waiting to accept new fares. That was the ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the highly publicised case involving Uber London Ltd and several of its drivers. The tribunal heard that Uber paid drivers weekly, based on the fares charged for trips undertaken, less a service fee for the use of its booking app.
Continue reading →A woman who was told that she would be better off working for a more traditional firm has won her claim of age discrimination. Carolina Gomes, aged 59, worked as an administrator for an estate agency. In 2015, management became dissatisfied with her work and told her that she needed to cut out mistakes in letters and that she should not focus so much on an old software system that she liked to use.
Continue reading →The Court of Appeal has ruled that it was wrong to deny a transgender father direct contact with her children. The case involved a father who had been shunned by her ultra-orthodox Jewish community because she had started living as a transgender person. The court heard that the children would face ostracism if there was direct contact.
Continue reading →The government has announced it’s providing a £300m fund to help the 10 million Britons alive today who can expect to live to 100 or more.
Continue reading →A group of refuse collectors have won an overtime claim that could have an impact on employers across the UK.
Continue reading →A husband lost his appeal against a court order awarding his wife a large lump sum and half his pension.
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