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In recent years, employment status in the UK has been a critical topic, particularly for care providers who may engage carers as...

According to a recent article in The Telegraph, workers in the UK might soon be given new rights to request a four-day working week, with...

The results are in, and the surprise factor is akin to UK’s “nil pointe” on Eurovision night! Number 10 has a new inhabitant.  Whatever...

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations require employers to pay the NMW for all hours worked. This includes certain types of travel...

The Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) can be problematic in so far as they only differentiate between working time and rest time, yet...

Immigration may be the political hot potato of the campaign trail but for many social care providers, the employment of overseas workers...

The Rochdale by-election made the news recently, with the Labour Party withdrawing support for candidate Azhar Ali following comments...

I wrote recently about a Coroner’s case that involved the death of an elderly resident in a care home.  In that case, the Coroner made...

New Home Secretary James Cleverly has just announced a five-point plan in a bid to reduce abuse in the immigration system and cut the...

The employment tribunal was recently asked to consider the question of whether an airline pilot’s belief about the ‘right to breathe...

I wrote a blog published in Social Housing Magazine on Friday that includes some reflections arising from an interview that I did during...

If we need to wash down the coronation quiche consumed at the weekend then, unfortunately, we may have to do it with a dose of reality as...