13/02/2017. New employers, who are due to become subject to automatic enrolment duties during 2017 and are known as ‘post-staging employers’, will benefit from draft legislation that provides certainty about when AE duties apply to new employers outside the AE

13/02/2017. The practice of investing open-ended funds in illiquid assets – eg land and buildings, infrastructure and unlisted securities – is the focus of a Financial Conduct Authority discussion paper seeking views on the problems that can arise how well

13/02/2017 New and improved partnerships between local authorities and bus operators to operate bus services and new powers at local level to franchise them are among issues covered by a Dept for Transport consultation on draft regulations and guidance related

13/02/2017 Land Registry customers will be offered digital alternatives to paper conveyancing and registration, under changes proposed to the Land Registration Rules 2003. Far from being a radical review of the rules, the proposed changes are the minimum the Registry

Self-Employed’ Plumber Entitled to Basic Workers Rights (UK) 13/02/2017 The Court of Appeal became the most senior court to take the worker’s viewpoint in a ‘flexible workforce’ dispute when it agreed with an Employment Tribunal ruling that a self-employed plumber