In this “stop press” edition of our Globally Speaking e-bulletin, we provide our initial thoughts on the most highly anticipated Budget in the UK for a generation; the first by a Labour government in fourteen years and more significantly the
More about Globally Speaking: Stop press the Autumn Budget 2024Part 2 of our Employment Podcast celebrating World Mental Health Day is here! Listen to Employment Partner Stephen Ravenscroft and Senior Partner Camilla Wallace continue their conversation about mental health challenges in the workplace. How are employers raising awareness of
More about Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace (part 2)The Employment Rights Bill has now been laid down in parliament. It includes 28 new measures aimed at protecting workers rights and the Government has said it is “the biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation”. The most
More about The Employment Rights Bill – Major updatesTo mark World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10 October 2024 with the theme ‘It is Time to Prioritise Mental Health in the Workplace’, the next edition of the Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast discusses how organisations can raise awareness of
More about Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace (part 1)The appellant, Ms dos Santos, an entrepreneur and daughter of the former President of Angola, founded Unitel SA (Unitel), Angola’s largest mobile telecoms company in 1998. She was a director of the company until August 2020 and the beneficial owner
More about Dos Santos v Unitel SAWealth holders have always been stewards of their own wealth; increasingly that stewardship requires wealth holders to act responsibly. But what does being a responsible wealth steward mean, and who is this responsibility to, and why does it matter? The
More about What does it mean to be a responsible steward of wealth?The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (the “Tipping Act”) comes into force on 1 October 2024. The Department for Business and Trade has recently published its Code of Practice on the Fair and Transparent Distribution of Tips (the “Code”),
More about Code of practice on the new tipping act – What employers need to knowWe are pleased to bring you this Stop Press special edition of In Trust. Our next main issue will be after the Autumn Budget on 30 October 2024 but in the meantime we provide this interim update on the Labour
More about In Trust – What does the new labour government mean for private clients?In the next edition of the Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast, Legal Director Choy Lau and Solicitor George Cornell discuss the potential changes to employment law under the new Labour Government following the King’s Speech and the top three changes that
More about Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – Episode 2Some key highlights of legal updates affecting the Private Client industry over the past month are as follows. Tax policy – Autumn Budget On 29 July, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a fiscal update to Parliament in which she announced that
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