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  • Company cars — looking to the changes ahead
  • Company cars remain a popular perk, not least because they remove most of the hassle associated with running a car. Many still regard having a company car as a status symbol, despite hikes in company car taxation over recent years, reports Sarah Bradford, more>
  • Additional paternity leave and pay
  • The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 (APL Regulations) came into force on 6 April 2010, advises Judith Harris of Addleshaw Goddard LLP, and introduced a new right to additional paternity leave (APL) and additional paternity pay (APP). more>
  • Restrictive covenants in a nutshell
  • James King and Jennifer Barnes, Linklaters LLP, discuss the basic legal principles of restrictive covenants in light of recent case law. more>
  • Case study: redundancy selection procedure and pregnancy
  • An employment tribunal has found that an employer discriminated against a male employee when a woman on maternity leave was given preferential treatment in a redundancy scoring exercise. The case of De Belin v Eversheds Legal Services Ltd is an interestin more>

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