18 Apr, 2024 New flexible working rules now in force By Michael Brownlee The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 came into force on 6 April 2024 in England, Wales and Scotland. You can read our...
18 Mar, 2024 Wake me up before you pho-to? The use of photographic evidence in cases of sleeping on duty By Jackie Morris The Rochdale by-election made the news recently, with the Labour Party withdrawing support for candidate Azhar Ali following comments...
15 Mar, 2024 Spring cleaning your NMW records... are they ready for your workers to inspect? By Hannah Bollard With the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates increasing in April, it’s never a better time to have a spring clean of your records and for...
27 Feb, 2024 MAC report on the Immigration Salary List - care workers to remain By Hazel Findlay On Friday 23 February 2024, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) published its rapid review of the Immigration Salary List (ISL) which...
15 Feb, 2024 Updated right to work checks guidance for employers By Hazel Findlay UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has produced an updated employer’s guide to right to work checks. This updates the previous guide which...
12 Feb, 2024 No changes are to be made to English language requirements in care worker visas By Jackie Morris 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...
12 Feb, 2024 Labour announces plans to extend equal pay rights By Michael Brownlee The Labour Party has announced that, should they win the next election, they would extend the specific equal pay rights, currently...
08 Feb, 2024 Consultation on mandatory qualifications for housing managers released – it’s finally here but what do we learn? By Katherine Sinclair In February 2023 Michael Gove announced that mandatory qualifications would be introduced for senior social housing managers and...
05 Feb, 2024 Key dates for immigration changes 2024 – particularly for the health and social care sector By Hazel Findlay Following the Home Secretary’s announcement on 4 December last year about curbing net migration (see Katherine Sinclair’s blog here), we...
22 Jan, 2024 New guidance on Public Sector Equality Duty By Sarah Harnett The PSED, or Public Sector Equality Duty, is a set of rules that public authorities in the UK must follow when exercising their functions...
12 Dec, 2023 Should care workers have to speak 'proficient English' to ensure the safety of residents? By Jackie Morris It was upsetting to read a story in The Times last week concerning a care home resident who died following an accident in the care home...
06 Dec, 2023 Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn’t mean it… By Michael Brownlee We’ve all said things we didn’t mean, at times. However, when it comes to words that could be construed as a ‘resignation’, this could...