As the demolition contractors move in, commentators on the new Wembley Stadium are agreed on two things: firstly, it will cost about the same as the Millennium Dome; secondly, the financial success of the venture depends on selling out the premium-priced corporate seats for football matches to service and pay off the debt. In an … Read more
The OFT’s announcement that it has concluded its lengthy investigation into the blocking of parallel importing of CDs from other European countries is not quite as comforting for the record companies as immediate Press reports suggested. In its Report (the fruit of over two years’ work set in train by Mr Stephen Byers ‘rip-off Britain’ … Read more
On 1 October 2002 Regulations come into force which make important changes in the way fixed-term employees are treated by the law. The overriding principle of the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 is that fixed-term employees should not be treated less favourably than comparable permanent employees unless this can be objectively … Read more
