18 Dec, 2024 2024 in the rear mirror – pretty picture or pretty awful? By Libby Hubbard For our annual employment and pensions round-up of the year, we have asked some of our team members to bring their gifts of insight,...
11 Dec, 2024 Back to the future? The return of the two-tier code By Doug Mullen The Employment Rights Bill has hit the headlines with the substantial changes to employment law contained in it. But one measure that...
28 Nov, 2024 There are 12 days of Christmas but now there could be six months to bring an employment claim – New amendment to the Employment Rights Bill By Jackie Morris We have all been breathing a collective sigh of relief that the Employment Rights Bill 2024 was not going to interfere with the...
08 Nov, 2024 How can employers deliver on business and employee needs in times of policy change? By Lauren Broderick With Amazon recently announcing the end of its hybrid working policy, employers are again considering how best to balance business needs...
22 Oct, 2024 Employment Rights Bill - let the consultations begin By Libby Hubbard We've likened the Employment Rights Bill 2024 (ERB) to a marathon, not a sprint - if that's the case then it's been a speedy start with...
04 Sep, 2024 Pensions and fire and re-hire By Doug Mullen Fire and re-hire is a hot topic at the moment, with the Government looking to ban it. Hot off the press, a recent employment tribunal...
14 Aug, 2024 Employer provides a holiday fund savings scheme - What could go wrong? By Hannah Bollard Sometimes employers try to do the right thing and still get it wrong. Lees of Scotland are in that boat right now, having set up a...
14 Aug, 2024 Life after #MeToo – Employers must not wait until sexual harassment happens before taking action By Katherine Sinclair Seven years after the #MeToo movement in 2017 and five years after the UK government consultation on workplace sexual harassment in 2019,...
12 Aug, 2024 Social Housing Pension Scheme deficit falls by 55% By Doug Mullen With the welcome news that the overall Social Housing Pension Scheme deficit has fallen from £1.5 billion to £690 million, employers...
09 Aug, 2024 Now let the change begin - what does the new Government have in store for HR? By Libby Hubbard If you want to know what the new Government has in store for HR and employment relations following the King's speech then our August...
08 Aug, 2024 EHRC guidance on protected characteristic of sex By Jackie Morris Newly updated guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was published last month concerning ‘discriminatory adverts’....
01 Jul, 2024 Subject access requests – when to weed out third-party data By Emma Watt Libby Hubbard There are things in life, like taxes and laundry, that we know are necessary for democracy and cleanliness respectively but are just a...