The Minister of Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, DBE, CMG recently confirmed the government’s intention to amend UK designs legislation. The proposal would provide design owners with the option to mark their products with a relevant website address as a way of providing “constructive notice” to the public of their intellectual property rights.
Is flexible or home working always right for a business? Sally Gwilliam, Senior Employment Solicitor at Genus Law, looks at homeworking and gives some top tips for employers to consider.
The European Court of Justice has given a significant ruling that for mobile workers with no fixed place of work, travel time to and from their first and last appointments from home will count as a worker’s working hours. Here, Genus Law summarises the recent ruling and sets out the key points to be aware of.
In the third in our series of updates about the Consumer Rights Act, Amy Tindall, senior commercial solicitor, gives an overview of what the new law says about unfair contract terms and gives businesses a top ten list of potentially unfair contract terms.
>When the introduction of the National Living Wage was announced in the Budget this year, it was met with the usual division of cheers and boos. Specifically, those business leaders and investors in the retail, hospitality and care industry had significant concerns about its impact as share prices fell on the news.