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Charlie Mullins

Supreme Court missed huge opportunity to drag law into 21st Century with Pimlico Plumbers’ ruling

13 June 201813 June 2018 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

I’m supposed to say I’m disappointed that the Supreme Court has ruled against Pimlico Plumbers, by ruling that plumber, Gary Smith, was a worker, rather than the self-employed contractor we all knew he was when he was carrying out work for my company.

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Supreme Court has opened the floodgates and employers will drown in tribunals

26 July 2017 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

I am shaking with rage I’m so angry about today’s Supreme Court ruling that says that charging people to bring employment tribunal cases against employers is illegal.

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Can you dismiss employees for improper conduct out of working hours?

9 March 20157 March 2015 Columns, Legal Hugh Hitchcock 0 Comments

When two employees at New Zealand insurance brokers Marsh Ltd were caught being intimate with each other on company property outside of working hours, it wasn’t just their colleagues that they had to worry about.

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Avoid the pitfalls of hiring illegal workers

17 October 201417 October 2014 Columns, Opinion Hugh Hitchcock 0 Comments

This month let me give SMEs advice on the importance of ensuring all employees have the legal right to work in the UK.

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Why I’m backing Michael Fallon over changing ‘hire and fire’ legislation

10 September 2012 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 1 Comment

When the new Business Minister Michael Fallon declared that the Government would make it easier to fire workers, I thought my birthday must have come early this year.

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Britain’s artificial intelligence sector has produced its first heavyweight league table of 2026, with Barclays placing Oxford-founded chip designer Fractile and Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs at the centre of its new AI 100 ranking, a list that crystallises just how quickly the UK’s AI economy is maturing.

Barclays crowns Fractile and Isomorphic Labs in inaugural AI 100 as Britain’s tech race intensifies

Barclays Eagle Labs names Oxford chip pioneer Fractile and DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs among Britain’s top AI start-ups, as UK AI funding tops £8.3bn.

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