12/22/2025 10:33:28 AM Pensions auto-enrolment thresholds frozen again By Doug Mullen The Government has confirmed that the pensions auto-enrolment thresholds for the year beginning April 2026 will be frozen, as they have...
12/17/2025 3:09:10 PM Employment lessons learnt in 2025 - here’s our juke box of goodies By Libby Hubbard You can’t hurry love, and you can’t hurry an employment rights bill either In this, the third and final draft of this paragraph, I can...
12/17/2025 10:10:12 AM Employment Rights Bill - Update #15 - it's agreed... at last By Libby Hubbard As I pen this, I am imagining HM King Charles III sitting at his breakfast table and down plonks a 300-page document, splashing the milk...
12/10/2025 1:26:54 PM Non binary employee not protected by Equality Act 2010 - first case post FWS decision By Libby Hubbard The first tribunal case concerning protection against discrimination for nonbinary employees to be decided after the For Women Scotland...
11/28/2025 2:34:47 PM Autumn Budget 2025: What the pension salary sacrifice cap means for employers By Doug Mullen The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget has delivered a big change for salary sacrifice pension contributions - and it’s one employers can’t...
10/24/2025 8:16:31 AM Employment Rights Bill - Update #13: Consultations on enhanced dismissal protections for pregnant and new mothers and on bereavement leave By Libby Hubbard Two more consultations complete the set that the Government published on 23 October (see our blog on the other two consultations on trade...
10/23/2025 4:18:37 PM Employment Rights Bill - Update #12: consultation on trade union access and union information to staff By Libby Hubbard Half term approaches and the Government has given us some reading material as we hunker down to the dark nights of autumn/winter 2025. ...
10/3/2025 2:07:11 PM From consultation to action - are you qualified to serve? Preparing for the 2026 Social Housing Competence and Conduct Standard By Katherine Sinclair On 30 September 2025, the Government published its response to the consultation on the Competence and Conduct Standard for Social...
9/1/2025 3:09:25 PM LGPS: SAB calls for ban on incentives for employees to leave By Doug Mullen The Scheme Advisory Board (SAB) for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has recommended that the Government change the law to...
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...
5/20/2025 3:27:56 PM Employment Rights Bill hub - Update #4 By Libby Hubbard Why is it so quiet? What am I missing? Anyone who has looked after children (either their own or others) will know that often, when...