. . .and, it seems, he may have every right to do so. . . If only it was that simple.  In fact, monitoring in the workplace (for example, CCTV and emails) raises a host of legal issues under: the Data Protection Act 1998 the Code of Practice issued by the Information Commission’s Office (ICO) […]

“Christmas comes but once a year . . . “ Are there only 24 days to go before Christmas?  Is it really all of twelve months since the last office Christmas party? One might have hoped that with Christmas coming round every year (and always on 25 December, just fancy that?), employers (and employees) would […]

If you are a keen follower of news from the City then you will regard as “old news” the announcement of the resignation of Dave Forsey as company secretary of Mash Holdings. For the uninitiated, Mash Holdings is Mike Ashley’s £2.7 billion holding company for his corporate ownership of Newcastle United and Sports Direct. That’s […]

Depending on which newspaper you read: the average British employer is forced to negotiate a legislative employment battlefield strewn with deadly land-mines laid by faceless, bureaucrats from Brussels (aka the European Parliament) or, by contrast even in 2015 the industrial landscape echoes to the values and habits of Victorian mill owners who force employees to […]

A traffic-clogged daily commute to and from our place of work is all too familiar to many of us.  The fact that we aren’t paid for the time wasted in that commute merely rubs salt into the wound. Can that commute ever be categorised as “working time”? For time to be classed as ‘working time’ […]

Night work is in the news at the moment. RMT General Secretary Mick Cash is complaining that TfL’s plans to introduce all night services on some Tube lines will wreck the work-life balance of his members  – though when interviewed on the BBC’s Today programme he repeatedly side-stepped the observation that none of his members […]

Employers who provide company vehicles – or who expect employees to make use of their own – will generally make it an express term of an employee’s contract that, for example: the employee must hold a current UK driving licence the employee will produce the licence for inspection, on request, and the employee will report […]

It would be a strange and comparatively silent world without Jeremy Clarkson grabbing the headlines every few months as the central character in another story of outrageous, politically incorrect, behaviour. And here we are again with the controversial Top Gear presenter accused of ‘punching’ a producer. Unfortunately for Clarkson, reports suggest he was already on […]

Well, here we are again. The goose was cooked, presents were opened, you’ve probably already returned those unwanted gifts to M&S, and the New Year Celebrations are now but a hazy memory. Did you make any New Year resolutions? Have you broken them already? At risk of depressing you further can we remind you that […]

In the first three articles in this series we looked at the history of commercial agency and the definition of a commercial agent. We then looked at the contrasting positions on termination, and finally turned to a comparison of the regimes in relation to compensation. I think we now have enough information to start drawing […]

In the second of this series of articles we looked at the contrasting position between commercial agents and employees when it comes to termination. We saw that, in contrast to the position with employees, it may be difficult to exclude an agent’s entitlement to compensation on termination. In this article we will look at what […]

In the first article we looked at the history of commercial agency in the UK and defined what the phrase “commercial agent” means. In this second article, we look at the subject of terminating a commercial agency and contrast the law in this area with the law relating to the termination of employment relationships. Whether […]