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A CEOs perspective of subsidiary governance. Incoming CEOs face a variety of challenges including defining group strategy, assessing corporate culture, building management teams, apprasing financial performance and protecting and enhancing reputation.
In our first article we explained the Capital Markets Union (‘CMU’) and highlighted some of the immediate issues raised by Brexit. We now turn our attention to the future and the likelihood of the UK's continued participation in the CMU.
The Capital Markets Union ('CMU') is the European Commission's plan to mobilise capital in Europe to encourage sustainable growth. In the first of two articles PwC Legal explains the CMU and examines the potential impact of Brexit on the CMU project.
Governance is firmly under the spotlight in the fi nancial services sector. In its broadest sense, governance is a method or system of government or management. Within the banking sector, the focus on governance encompasses roles, responsibilities, accountability, remuneration, risk governance and, with increasing prominence, structural or subsidiary governance.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that all "normal remuneration" and not just base pay must be reflected in the holiday pay calculation for the first 4 weeks of each British worker's holiday taken in any holiday year.
Following a consultation which concluded in September 2015, the Government has now published the draft Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2016 (the “Regulations”) setting out details of new measures which will come into force in October 2016 and require compulsory gender pay reporting by qualifying employers.
The scope for market abuse is due to expand with the introduction of the new Market Abuse regulation.
The case of Jackson Lloyd Group v Mears Group PLC highlights the need for acquiring companies to manage post-acquisition integration with care to avoid "inadvertent" TUPE transfers
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