Katie Clark
Subscribe to Katie Clark's PostsKatie Clark has significant experience advising on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Katie’s client base spans multiple business sectors and includes global corporations, financial institutions, FTSE 100 companies, manufacturing companies, service providers and start-ups. Katie is noted for her commercial approach to assisting clients to deal with employment issues ranging from day-to-day employee relations, to negotiating public limited company (PLC) board director contracts and significant business restructuring. Read Katie Clark's full bio.
UK Employment Law Forthcoming Attractions in 2016
By Katie Clark and Paul McGrath on Jan 29, 2016
Posted In Employment, Labor, Privacy and Data Security
Happy 2016! It’s time to take a look at what this year will bring (apart from an Olympic Games and apparently lots of rain…). Here are the topics we will be keeping an eye on. Read the full article.
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UK Alert: Paying The Penalty? Supreme Court Clarifies Rule Against “Penalty Clause”
By Katie Clark on Dec 8, 2015
Posted In Employment
The Supreme Court has issued an important judgement that gives employers some helpful guiding principles to consider when drafting contracts in order to avoid creating unenforceable penalty clauses. Read the full article.
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UK Alert: New Obligation to Publish Annual Statement on Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
By Katie Clark and Paul McGrath on Nov 17, 2015
Posted In Employee Benefits, Employment, Labor
A new obligation has been introduced requiring large commercial organisations operating in the United Kingdom to publish a “slavery and human trafficking statement” at the end of each financial year. The requirement extends to all commercial organisations in any part of a group structure (wherever incorporated, and whether a company or a partnership) that carry...
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Any Port in a Storm? EU-US Data Transfers After Schrems and Safe Harbor
By Katie Clark on Oct 16, 2015
Posted In Employment, Privacy and Data Security
Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave an important data privacy ruling, which any business transferring personal data between the EU and US should know about – particularly those that have made use of the “Safe Harbor” scheme for data transfer, which the CJEU has now ruled to be invalid....
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Ruling on UK Executive’s Lawsuit Involving U.S.-Based Stock Option Plan
By Katie Clark on Oct 8, 2015
Posted In Employee Benefits, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Employment
The English Court of Appeals ruled that UK court has jurisdiction over UK executive’s lawsuit involving a U.S.-based stock option plan, despite the stock option plan’s clear language requiring Massachusetts choice of law and jurisdiction. Multinational companies sponsoring broad-based employee plans should be on notice that non-EU exclusive jurisdiction clauses may not be enforceable against...
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Collective Redundancy Consultation: European Court Judgment is Good News for UK Employers
By Katie Clark and Paul McGrath on Jul 16, 2015
Posted In Employment
Background UK legislation provides that, when a UK employer proposes to make redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less, the employer is required to collectively consult representatives of those affected, prior to implementing that proposal. Failure to do so can lead to the employer being required...
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Increase in UK Employment Protection Awards
By Katie Clark on May 29, 2015
Posted In Employment
The compensation limits on Employment Tribunal awards and certain other amounts payable under UK employment legislation increased as of 6 April 2015. The key changes are set out below. What Does This Mean for Employers? The changes took effect on 6 April 2015 and apply to dismissals that occurred on, or will occur after, that...
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UK Employment Alert: Flexibility Clauses: Worth the Paper They’re Written On?
By Katie Clark on Mar 17, 2015
Posted In Employee Benefits, Employment
A recent decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (Norman & Others v National Audit Office [2014] UKEAT 0276/14/1512) has emphasised the need for employers to ensure that “flexibility clauses” are drafted unambiguously and have contractual effect if they are to be effective. Read the full article.
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UK Employment Law – Things to Expect in 2015
By Katie Clark on Feb 3, 2015
Posted In Employment
Now that we have eased into 2015, it’s time to think about the key employment law issues we’ll be facing in the year ahead. Read the full article.
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UK Employment Alert: Holiday Pay – UK Government Introduces Two-Year Limit on Claims for Back Pay
By Katie Clark and Paul McGrath on Dec 31, 2014
Posted In Employment
The UK Government has introduced legislation to help employers deal with the fallout of recent decisions indicating that pay for statutory holiday should include, and should always have included, overtime and other job-related allowances, as we reported on previously here and here. Read the full article.
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