7/8/2025 2:46:31 PM Employment Rights Bill - Update #7; new amendments By Anna Dabek Libby Hubbard Here we are again with yet more ‘fun and games’ with the Employment Rights Bill. We now have the House of Lords amendments published on...
7/8/2025 10:03:58 AM Employment law update 2025 - what's happened so far? By Libby Hubbard For us employment law geeks, it’s probably fair to say that the twin peaks of 2025 to date have been a lengthy Bill in progress and a...
7/2/2025 2:49:08 PM Employment Rights Bill - Update #6: the road map By Anna Dabek Libby Hubbard It's always great (and somewhat surprising) when the 'powers that be' do what is promised. But so it came to pass with the ERB...
6/18/2025 8:20:39 AM The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 By Rumandeep Dhariwal Ben Pumphrey After a slightly surprising amount of back and forth between the Commons and Lords, the Data (Use and Access) Bill has now received Royal...
5/30/2025 1:28:02 PM Mediating PFIs: A potentially underused tool for unlocking contract disputes By Emma Beynon Andrew Lancaster Whilst we are watching what happens with the pipeline of new infrastructure Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) – see our colleague Jon...
5/21/2025 1:45:07 PM Can you dismiss an employee for social media posts? By Hannah Bollard Libby Hubbard We are told that Gary Lineker leaving the BBC was a ‘mutual’ decision and there was no dismissal. Let’s imagine that there was no...
4/29/2025 3:30:29 PM April increases to statutory payments By Libby Hubbard 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...
4/9/2025 10:16:37 AM Procurement UnpACked: Using KPIs to drive accountability and performance By Sophie McFie-Hyland Chanel Quigley Contracting authorities will have seen that there is a range of obligations relating to key performance indicators (KPIs) under the...
4/8/2025 2:54:14 PM Taking all reasonable steps; more guidance for discrimination cases By Libby Hubbard Lawyers love this word ‘reasonable’ – I would go as far as to say that we spend an unreasonable amount of time debating what reasonable...
4/2/2025 8:44:14 AM Local Government Pension Scheme: changes for a new year By Doug Mullen 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,...
3/24/2025 7:34:37 PM Duty to prevent sexual harassment; equalities watchdog is taking it seriously By Anna Dabek McDonalds is back in our headlines. The BBC has recently reported on the alarming rates of sexual harassment of its staff rising to such...
3/3/2025 9:22:25 AM Reflections on Procurement Act Live: Key takeaways and insights By Amy Callahan-Page After attending the many insightful sessions at Procurement Act Live last week, I’ve been reflecting on the key messages that emerged...