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To paraphrase the Kipling poem very badly, if you can keep your head and apply the April statutory increases when all around you there is...

Contracting authorities will have seen that there is a range of obligations relating to key performance indicators (KPIs) under the...

Lawyers love this word ‘reasonable’ – I would go as far as to say that we spend an unreasonable amount of time debating what reasonable...

For the Local Government Pension Scheme, the new year starts not on 1 January but on 1 April and with the start of a new scheme year,...

McDonalds is back in our headlines. The BBC has recently reported on the alarming rates of sexual harassment of its staff rising to such...

After attending the many insightful sessions at Procurement Act Live last week, I’ve been reflecting on the key messages that emerged...

Contracting authorities may be pleased to hear that the framework purchasing tool will still be available under the Procurement Act 2023...

Alongside the demise of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR) we see the end of the (perhaps less used but equally exciting)...

The case of Kirstie Higgs and her previous employer, Farmor's School, has finally been decided by the Court of Appeal. Her dismissal was...

Housing associations often have unionised staff, including maintenance teams, administrative staff, or frontline housing officers....

The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) - currently 199 pages long with 28 reforms for employment law - is making its way through our...

As the Employment Rights Minister correctly noted, “Parents of children in neonatal care have more than enough to worry about without...