All lawyers looking to improve their language skills really must read a new European Commission document with the snappy title ‘Economically dependant/quasi-subordinate (parasubordinate) employment: legal, social and economic aspects’. According to several highly-esteemed employment barristers who have, with remarkable self-sacrifice, actually read this landmark piece of wordy guff, the only useful facts to be drawn from it are four statistics relating to the proportion of European workers who are self-employed, worked part time or are on fixed-term contracts. Clearly, this is an important example of a document that makes every effort to ignore making any worthwhile points and ultimately aims to confuse rather than inform. Important reading for lawyers.
Microsoft wins Atos in-houser for new role
Microsoft UK has created the new role of director of law and corporate affairs. Rowan Winter Vevers joins from Atos UK, where she was general counsel and director of commercial and corporate affairs. She will head the six-strong Microsoft UK legal team based in Reading, and the Microsoft UK Government affairs team of three based […]