6/28/2024 9:39:55 AM Local authority employers - What's in a name? By Sarah Harnett Mispronouncing someone’s name can have significant implications, as shown by the recent case of Viveak Taneja. In summary, the Tribunal...
6/27/2024 3:15:13 PM Are you paying for travel time? Key insights from a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment By Anna Dabek The National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations require employers to pay the NMW for all hours worked. This includes certain types of travel...
6/25/2024 3:59:50 PM On-call and standby shifts – working time or not? By Katherine Sinclair Libby Hubbard The Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) can be problematic in so far as they only differentiate between working time and rest time, yet...
6/24/2024 4:05:53 PM Do decarbonisation grants have too many strings? By Gayle Monk Over recent years, we have increasingly been advising local authority and social housing clients on their work to utilise decarbonisation...
6/21/2024 2:49:23 PM Seven years after the Grenfell tragedy - reaching their limit… How far do the leaseholder protections stretch? By Joanne Wright Paul Slinger The latest on remediation orders and remediation contribution orders The first contested remediation contribution order case (under...
6/21/2024 2:17:21 PM Investigation into chatbot - a 'warning shot for industry' By Emma Watt The ICO has concluded its investigation into Snap Inc.’s use of its 'My AI' chatbot feature on the Snapchat platform. The My AI chatbot...
6/20/2024 3:27:42 PM School sickness absence - Three top tips By Sarah Harnett According to Employer Link's recent analysis of academy trust workforce costs document, levels of sickness absence in academies almost...
6/18/2024 9:54:29 AM Corporate transactions with employment specialists: the perfect podcast collaboration By Laura Jordan Michael Brownlee The sale or purchase of a business is never just about the contracts, the indemnities, the warranties and the late-night negotiations;...
6/17/2024 3:55:01 PM Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023: Compulsory purchase reforms By Emma Lloyd Stuart Evans On 1 March 2024, the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities wrote to chief planning officers in Homes England and all CEOs of...
6/17/2024 10:38:04 AM Academies and LGPS pass-through arrangements By Doug Mullen The DfE has provided welcome clarity on what approvals are needed when an academy enters into an agreement with a contractor to share the...
6/14/2024 4:57:34 PM Surrendering a joint tenancy - revisited By Rebecca Sembuuze In a previous blog post last year, we looked at a possession case issued by Westminster City Council where there had been a joint...
6/13/2024 8:40:53 AM Why amateur boxers need to trust their safety really is at the heart of everything By Ann Houghton I am very keen to acknowledge from the outset, that boxing – the same as all sports and physical activity – is great for participants in...