Clifford Chance

UK: Employment Update - October 2016

3 October 2016

Welcome to our October Update in which we consider the consultation on the tax treatment of termination payments that was published whilst many of us were enjoying our summer breaks. The proposed changes are intended to simplify matters but in practice it is questionable whether the current proposals will in fact cause more complexity. We also take a look at the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees and whether this can ever require an employer to maintain an employee's existing rate of pay if they are redeployed into a lower paid role.  On the horizon is the possibility of employee board representation as evidenced by the recently launched inquiry into corporate governance.

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