Newsletters & Articles
If you would like to subscribe to our Employment and Recruitment newsletters please contact the Employment Department’s secretary, Lesley Rule, on 020 7404 0606 or lrule@gdlaw.co.uk.

• Recruitment Industry Update - Prior to 15 December 2007, an extensive anti-money laundering regime already existed. However, on 15 December 2007, further legislation was introduced by way of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 (“the Regulations”).  They are designed to identify and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing by requiring those persons involved in businesses in which money laundering may occur, to take various actions, including checking the identity of their customers and reporting suspicious activity.  Read more about the subject here.
  (March 2008)

• Recruitment Industry Update - This bulletin covers the new regulations in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Businesses, the Employment Bill 2007/08 – changes to employment agency standards enforcement, postponement of cases related to the employment status of agency workers, the amended Temporary Workers Directive, the draft bill on equal treatment between temporary/agency workers and other employees, the new immigration rules on illegal working and the entitlement to SSP for agency workers.
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• Recruitment Industry Update - Agency workers found to be employees of employment business - a summary of the EAT ruling in Consistent Group Ltd v Kalwak and ors.
  (June 2007)
  
  
• Recruitment Industry Update - the bulletin details the implications for recruitment companies of HMRC proposals targeting managed service companies; the employment status of temporary workers; proposed legislation in the sector; the legality of rolled-up holiday pay; and developments in gangmasters licensing.
  (May 2007)
  
  
• HR FAQs - Employers and their Human Resources advisers face constant difficulties in trying to avoid the potential pitfalls posed by current employment law. This bulletin aims to address, in a practical way, some issues commonly dealt with by Human Resources departments, and to give realistic guidance on how to reduce the risk of employment related litigation in these areas.
  (May 2007)
  
  
• The Recruitment Industry: Employment Status of Temporary Workers and Proposed Tax Reform of Managed Service Companies – this newsletter provides an update regarding the recent case law concerning the employment status of temporary workers and also provides information regarding the proposed reforms regarding taxation of managed service companies.
  (January 2007)
  
  
• The Recruitment Industry: Current Issues – This newsletter includes details on conditional refund of permanent placement fees, rolled up holiday pay, employment status of temporary workers, the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, the draft Agency Workers Directive and the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004
  (May 2006)