With the eagerly anticipated football World Cup in Brazil fast approaching, how will this major sporting event impact your employees and, in turn, your business? It was estimated that the World Cup in 2006 cost British business up to £4 billion in lost productivity. As a result, employers took steps to address this at the last World Cup in South Africa and with under 2 months until the start of Brazil 2014, now is […]
Is Pennsylvania going to join the ranks of states and municipalities requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees? Senate Bill 1209, which was recently introduced and referred to committee, is intended to do precisely that; a similar piece of legislation has been introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Under the proposed Senate bill, employers with “four or more” employees in Pennsylvania would be required to provide “[a]n accommodation for as long […]
As part of the Government’s drive to make 2010-20 the “decade of employee share ownership”, there have recently been a number of significant changes to HMRC approved share plans and Enterprise Management Incentive Schemes (EMI).
Provisions which became law under the Finance Act 2013, along with draft legislation published for the Finance Act 2014, together represent the most significant set of developments in the last 10 years for companies operating employee share schemes and employees […]