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      <title>social media contacts - who owns them?</title>
      <description>Michelle Lawlor-Perkins from our Employment team looks at the practical steps employers can take to try to prevent business connections stored in cyberspace from following departing employees.</description>
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      <title>Hays and Business Solent HR forum, Portsmouth - 22 May 2013</title>
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      <description>In this issue: April changes and new timetable for employment law, covert recordings, EAT confirms that obesity is not in itself a disability, PILONs and terminating employment – getting it right, pensions law round-up relevant to employers, EMI share option changes, auto enrolment seminar with Hays, APSCo legal forum, London, 11 June.</description>
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      <description>In this edition: pension provisions for civil partners, stakeholder pension schemes update, submission of recovery plans, future of Fair Deal and more.</description>
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      <description>In this edition: proposed changes to whistleblowing, dismissal for political reasons, failure to provide agency worker information, changes to terms and conditions and dismissal, dismissing an employee because your client does not want them, the importance of a thorough investigation, criminal background checks and events.</description>
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      <title>firm advises on the sale of Coolmation Group to Swegon</title>
      <description>Our Corporate Finance, Real Estate and Employment law teams come together to advise founder and majority shareholder of the Coolmation group of businesses in the sale of the group to Swegon Limited, a subsidiary of Swegon AB.</description>
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      <title>employees awarded compensation for Council's breach of information rules introduced by the AWR</title>
      <description>Our Recruitment sector group highlights that a Tribunal has ruled that a Council, which failed to provide information about its use of agency workers, must pay compensation to its employees for its breach.</description>
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