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UK: Employment Update August/September 2014

12 August 2014

This edition of Employment Update considers two Court of Appeal decisions that explore when the courts can rewrite restrictive covenants that are toothless and whether an employer can increase a disciplinary sanction at the appeal stage. Whether obesity is a free-standing condition requiring protection from discrimination and whether correspondence from an HR consultant can contractually bind an employer in relation to its employees are questions considered in two further cases covered in this Update.

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