A TEAM of Liverpool real estate lawyers was performing so badly during the recession it risked barely being able to cover its costs, an employment tribunal heard. The gloomy outlook was used as justification for DLA Piper's senior real estate partner to suggest a Liverpool partner should see his wage slashed by pounds 200,000.
LAWYERS working at the country's longest running tribunals were exempted from a pay cut that could have saved the taxpayer millions, it was revealed yesterday. The Taoiseach was left red-faced in the Dail after admitting the Government is still paying top dollar to barristers at the Mahon and Moriarty inquiries - despite promises to curb crippling legal costs.
PARTNERS and staff at Halliwells are being asked to sign up to work a four-day week, in a bid to cut costs. The scheme will see some fee earners and support staff taking a 15% pay cut in return for the extra day off.
The argument against controversial proposed changes to the law which would give temporary workers the same rights as their permanent colleagues... Once again the Private Members' Bill on agency workers has been debated in the House of Commons. In December, the European Parliament decided that the proposed Agency Workers' Directive was not a viable proposition at that time.
FAST food and pub workers are having their pay cut as new legislation on holidays squeezes employers' margins, with some losing out on premium payments. The raising of statutory holidays to 28 days a year from last month, aimed at stopping employers counting Bank Holidays in annual leave entitlement, had "heavily affected" some firms, it was claimed.
NURSES, gardai, firemen, cleaning staff - all our civil servants have been made share the national pain by taking a pay cut... except some of the best paid. Once again, it has emerged that the law firmly is on the side of the judges.
DUNDAS & Wilson, which this week became the latest major law firm to ask its staff to accept a pay cut, has reported a 20per cent slide in partner earnings for 2008-09. Tomorrow D&W will publish the result of a vote across its 650 staff on whether to accept a 10per cent pay cut in return for an extra 18 days leave, joining an industrywide move to cut costs across their workforces.
MEP Joe Higgins yesterday gave his support to builders fighting a pay cut through the Labour Courts. Unions want to stop a 7.5% reduction in REA rates being made law. Mr Higgins said: "These workers have serious concerns that the 7.5% reductions scandalously negotiated by the union leaders was not properly balloted by a number of unions.
The Christian hoteliers who were told by a judge they had acted unlawfully by refusing a gay couple a double room, have revealed their fine will be paid by donations from other Christians. Yesterday Judge Andrew Rutherford made the landmark ruling that Peter and Hazelmary Bull were breaking the law, when they denied Bristol couple Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy a room at their hotel in Cornwall, in September 2008. At a hearing last month it came to light Mr Hall and Mr Preddy were seeking up to Pounds 5,000 damages against the hotel owners, claiming sexual orientation discrimination under the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007. In a written judgment at Bristol County Court yesterday, the judge awarded the couple Pounds 1,800 each in damages, but after th...
Partners at Birmingham law firm Wragge & Co are taking a pay cut after a standstill year, yet still giving staff a big bonus. Profits per partner came in at pounds 210,000 -a 17 per cent drop from last year -with Wragge saying it had 'sacrificed partner rewards for investment in its people'.
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