Top 10 Labour and Employment Headlines from UK On 28 June the coalition government announced temporary measures towards limiting the number of non-EEA highly skilled and skilled workers entering and remaining in the UK. The topics covered in this paper are considered in detail in the book Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave. "No Loving in Work E-mail", we commented on a case involving an American employee who used a laptop provided by her employer to send and receive e-mails to and from her lawyer. Where are we now after the decisions in Stringer and Pereda? I posed this question almost exactly six months ago in a talk given to ELA members in London. It might be cheaper to fire high value employees without reasons than to say why. Group risk is an umbrella term that covers three company-sponsored employee benefits: group life insurance, group income protection and critical illness cover. Group risk benefits are often (but not always) fully insured. Nest (previously personal accounts) could spell trouble for employers by increasing employment costs with no scope for legal avoidance. Theresa May has announced that there will be a consultation process ahead of a permanent annual cap on non-EU migration. Since A-Day in 2006, the UK has been going through massive changes as successive Governments have looked at savings and pensions for people in the future. Steve Webb, Pensions Minister, has stated that the coalition government will scrutinise auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) before making a decision on the future of these proposed schemes. | 
