Neil A. Baylis

Feb 8, 2024 | personneltoday.com | Catherine Taylor |Neil A. Baylis |Rebecca Timms |Aisleen Pugh

Employer market power has been affected by the rise of hybrid working, the gig economy, increasing use of performance-related pay and misuse of non-compete covenants. A new government report details how the labour market is responding. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a flagship report, Competition and Market Power in UK Labour Markets, which takes a “deep dive” into key trends in the UK labour market, focusing on the impact of competition and employer market power.

Oct 25, 2023 | solicitorsjournal.com | Neil A. Baylis

On 28 September 2023, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down a judgment in Commission v United Kingdom (C-692/20, EU:C:2023:707), ordering the UK and Northern Ireland to pay the European Commission a lump sum of €32 million for failing to adopt all necessary measures to comply with a previous judgment of 17 October 2018 (‘the 2018 judgment’) in Commission v United Kingdom (C-503/17, EU:C:2018:831).