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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Restrictive Covenants: The employer strikes back

David von Hagen and Louise Lawrence of Winckworth Sherwood discuss recent decisions on restrictive covenants and their implications ‘Employers might feel safer investing substantial sums in injuncting employees who have joined, or who are thinking of joining, the competition.’ A series of recent High Court decisions about the interpretation and enforceability of restrictive covenants and …
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Restrictive Covenants: Make sure contracts are signed, sealed, delivered

Alice Giner examines the implications of two recent High Court cases on whether employers could rely on business protection provisions in contracts that had not been updated properly The High Court held, reaffirming the existing law, that the reasonableness of the restriction should be established based on the circumstances at the time at which the …
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