Hi, Here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, click the links to read the full stories of the summaries below or see these and many other stories from this week's news at http://www.out-law.com/page-5951. You can also access our archive of weekly emails at http://www.out-law.com/page-7793. OUT-LAW is back on 7th January 2008. Happy holidays! The OUT-LAW Team ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Santa's hiring policies may discriminate Santa Claus could be breaking a raft of employment laws designed to protect exploited and discriminated-against workers, according to one employment law expert. 13/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8759 2. Chief execs in firing line over e-disclosure Company chief executives are ignorant of rules about the storing of electronic information despite the fact that they will pay the penalty for failures to preserve information as evidence in disputes, according to an industry survey. 13/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8760 3. Data protection law will be reviewed The Government has launched a consultation into how personal data is treated in the aftermath of the HM Revenue and Customs' loss of 25 million people's sensitive information. 12/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8758 4. Employment Bill published by UK Government Rogue employers could face unlimited fines and agency workers will enjoy stronger protection under a new Employment Bill published by the Government on Friday. The reforms also abolish the current statutory disciplinary procedures. 10/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8751 5. EU agrees to overhaul VAT on digital services Downloads of software, ringtones, games, music and movies sold to consumers will be taxed where the consumer is located instead of where the supplier is based with effect from 2015 under changes to Europe's VAT regime agreed on Tuesday. 07/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8749 6. Reckless Santa could cause yuletide chaos, warn experts Santa Claus has been accused of putting his life and the lives of others at risk through breaches of health and safety laws. Brandy-loving present-giver Claus behaves recklessly and in direct contravention of UK legislation, experts said. 12/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8756 ***OUT-LAW Radio: Battle for content control*** We look at a new technology to help content producers control their material and ask: will search companies allow it to flourish? And we talk to the man charged with potentially re-writing data protection laws. 13/12/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***About this email*** This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website run by international law firm Pinsent Masons of 30 Aylesbury Street, London, EC1R 0ER. Feel free to forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register free at http://www.out-law.com. Existing subscribers: you can manage your profile at http://www.out-law.com/page-520. The email address for this subscription is <>. Feel free to give us your feedback by replying to this email. To unsubscribe, please reply with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. (We'd also appreciate you telling us why you've decided to unsubscribe.)