This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) an EAT decision under the pre-IP completion day Brussels Regulation on the employment tribunal’s jurisdiction to hear claims brought by a British citizen employed by a company domiciled in Georgia, USA under an employment contract governed by the law of that State, (2) the launch by the Low Pay Commission (LPC) of a consultation on 2026 national minimum wage (NMW) and national living wage (NLW) rates, (3) an update to the HMRC Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool, (4) a Court of Appeal decision to strike out whistleblowing detriment claims against external HR consultants, (5) confirmation from the Court of Appeal that, in the context of an indirect age discrimination claim relating to changes made by a parent company to the rules of a long term incentive plan (LTIP), the parent company was not the agent of the subsidiary employer, (6) a High Court decision that the alleged vicarious liability of a transferor employer does not transfer under...
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