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Yacht Management Company Ltd v Gordon – where does the Employment Tribunal have territorial jurisdiction?
Posted: 21/03/2024
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that it has territorial jurisdiction to hear claims brought by a seafarer, despite the fact that the seafarer’s employer did not carry out any business in the UK, and that she worked on a vessel that did not enter a UK port or UK waters at any time during her employment......>>
No collective bargaining rights for Deliveroo drivers
Posted: 21/11/2023
The Supreme Court has ruled today on the status of Deliveroo food delivery riders for the purposes of collective bargaining in the case of Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) [2023] UKSC 43. The court considered the factual matrix, which showed that: the contract between the riders and......>>
Bullying, harassment and discrimination management on superyachts
Posted: 02/08/2023
On 12 June 2023, the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network published its Spotlight on Q1 2023. Notably, and perhaps worryingly, it showed that there had been a substantial quarter by quarter increased general trend in cases of abuse, bullying, harassment or discrimination (cases being up by almost 50 per cent) on ships......>>
Will the FIFA Football Agent Regulations reform the role of the football agent for the better?
Posted: 01/03/2023
The first stage of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations 2022 came into force on 9 January 2023. The regulations will ‘govern the occupation of football agents’ and represent a wide-ranging reform to the way in which agents will work in football. When fully implemented in October 2023, the most significant changes will be the re-introduction......>>
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: appetite for destruction
Posted: 13/02/2023
The government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is currently working its way through Parliament against a chorus of outrage from opposition parties and trade unions. While the government insists that the measures are necessary in the face of current waves of industrial action, the opponents argue that the bill tramples over......>>
P&O ferries and the law of unintended consequences
Posted: 29/03/2022
In the 12 days since it announced it was dismissing 800 employees, P&O Ferries has attracted significant negative attention – not just from trade unions and the media, but from key government ministers, departments and agencies seeking to mitigate the impact of the decision. Nick Humphreys reviews the latest developments in this fast-moving case, including the letters exchanged over the last two days with Grant Shapps, the transport secretary......>>
A case study on how not to dismiss 800 employees
Posted: 21/03/2022
On 17 March 2022, after cancelling a number of ferries that day, P&O Ferries Limited announced by a video recording sent to its approximately 800 seafaring employees that they were to be dismissed with immediate effect by reason of redundancy. The employees were told in the video that the P&O Ferries business had lost £100 million......>>
Fire and rehire: a strategy leading to uncomfortable outcomes?
Posted: 28/05/2021
Following the employment law crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a move towards business employment restructuring is afoot in a number of industries, which is likely to increase into autumn 2021 as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough) is unwound......>>
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