CAC meaning

HSBC European Works Council v HSBC Continental Europe [2024] EAT 104 The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) refused to overturn the Central Arbitration Committee’s (CAC) 2021 determination, holding that HSBC could amend its European Works Council (EWC) agreement and shift operations outside the UK on the UK’s exit from the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA). Judge Akhlaq Choudhury stated that it was, in his view, reasonably clear that the parties had intended that any change arising from an alteration in membership status would likewise lead to revisions to the list of operations. The judgment records that in 2021, a year after the UK formally left the EU, HSBC relocated its central management—and, by extension, its EWC—to Ireland. The EWC contended that the UK unit ought to have been allowed to continue operating. It relied on a Court of Appeal decision which had permitted the works council of the low-cost airline EasyJet to carry on after Brexit, the judgment said...

China’s mobile smart terminals, applications, and application-distribution platforms are now covered by a set of guidelines for building a ‘minor mode’, intended to improve online content and curtail Internet addiction among minors. The CAC-drafted guidelines set out a framework for configuring this mode and allocate responsibilities across the three terminals. It also provides a structured basis for the necessary settings, defining duties for each participating party. As a key compliance reference, they support the rollout of the Regulations on the Protection of Minors on the Internet, which specify the need to establish a minor mode while leaving space to refine particulars such as permitted hours, session length, features, and material. Mobile smart terminals, applications, and application-distribution platforms will collaborate in building the mode, seeking to enhance time-management controls, alongside content curation and safeguards for functionality, with the goal of promoting stronger time governance, content development, and functional security...

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Buying at auction Securing a property at auction brings several advantages over purchasing on the open market: you could obtain the property at a favourable price the auction route is swift lots at auction often present scope for improvement and adding value if the property is tenanted, income can be received from completion A buyer faces funding risk if a mortgage is needed for the completion monies. The contract becomes binding the instant the hammer falls and, therefore, if an unconditional mortgage offer for the purchase is not in place before the auction, the buyer carries the risk. Legal pack The seller’s legal advisers prepare a legal pack for the lot...

An employer might recognise a trade union for various purposes, and at any of several possible levels. Conversely, even if a significant proportion of the workforce belongs to a particular trade union, the employer concerned may still choose not to recognise that union for any purpose, or at any level. Regarding purpose, an employer can grant recognition for a set of specified matters connected to its relationship with its workforce, whilst declining recognition in relation to other, comparable matters. Levels of trade union recognition Union recognition may exist at different levels in terms of the breadth of employees covered and the premises included across the organisation. This can vary between sites and employee groups within the same employer...

This Practice Note explores the processes for altering union recognition arrangements, especially where the bargaining unit is no longer suitable or has stopped existing. It further assesses the implications and outcomes of the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) establishing a new bargaining unit. The Note then reviews the range of situations in which derecognition might occur in practice. Administrative requirements Any application to the CAC made under the procedures outlined here for changes affecting bargaining units must satisfy relevant specified requirements contained in Schedule A1, Part III to the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A 1992)...