Our May 2021 update considers key employment law developments from April. It includes recent cases on automatic unfair dismissal in the context of serious and imminent danger arising.
May 12, 2021
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On May 4 2021, the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and India met virtually. The meeting ended with a 1 billion British pound ($1.4 billion) trade deal and a promise of generating thousands of jobs on both sides, and toward a future free trade agreement. The package includes 240 million British pounds (about $338.56 million) investment to U.K. by the Serum Institute of India into their vaccine business supporting research, clinical trials, manufacturing, and export of drones utilizing artificial intelligence (AI).
India and the U.K. have a long history of productive cooperation and have helped each other during the pandemic. The two major economies are on the frontlines of AI innovation and regulation and are therefore primed to cooperate in developing AI-driven technologies. In addition, both countries are founding members of the global partnership on AI and have spent considerable resources on devising their policies for the proliferation of AI.
Demystifying affordability part three: Convenience, privacy and civil liberties
29th April 2021 | By Daniel O Boyle
In this three-part series, Sonny Cott – operations manager for affordability solutions provider BeBettor – explains one of the most important topics for gambling operators in 2021: affordability.
The previous article in the ‘Demystifying Affordability’ series focused on automation and how operators can implement a layered approach when addressing affordability. It clarified the distinction between initial automated affordability assessments, consisting of non-intrusive, frictionless checks and enhanced affordability assessments that require additional, sensitive information from the customer.
This final article of the series will consider affordability from the customer’s perspective. This means balancing what would be considered to be a convenient and justified way of assessing affordability at different stages in the customer journey and what could be
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A high-level Westminster debate about competition policy looks at whether the UK is really going to rein in the US giants?
(Image by Yan Wong from Pixabay )
If you re a large digital platform company, the storm clouds have been gathering lately in the US, Europe, and the UK in terms of regulation and competition rules. Or perhaps there have merely been a few balls of vapour around an otherwise glorious sun, depending on how you believe the weather is looking in the digital realm.
Take the FAMGA group. Regulators worldwide - including in the US - may tut at their growing might, but Facebook s Q4 2020 revenues were up by one-third year on year, Amazon s by 44%, Microsoft s by nearly 17 percent, Google s by 24% and Apple s Q1 was up by 21% - topping $100 billion for the first time.