04 Jul, 2024 A few immigration tweaks – too few to mention? I think not… By Hazel Findlay The politicians might have downed tools and joined the campaign trail, however, for Home Office staff, it has been more like business as...
11 Jan, 2024 Holiday entitlement guidance; heavy on confusion, light on clarification! By Anna Dabek We ended 2023 on a holiday note (see our round-up of 2023) and we are starting 2024 on the same topic. Before the accusations fly that...
21 Dec, 2023 Looking back on 2023... with some Hollywood glamour By Libby Hubbard If 2023 started relatively slowly for HR professionals, then it has certainly picked up pace in the latter months. The new legislation...
04 Dec, 2023 Sick of reading about holiday entitlement? Now you can listen instead! By Libby Hubbard Following on from Hannah's blog on the Government's draft Regulations to amend the Working Time Regulations 1998 (found here), Hannah and...
27 Jul, 2023 Payment in lieu of holidays – EAT tells employers not to short-change workers By Sarah Harnett We all know holiday pay is not straight forward, the case of Conner v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police has highlighted a...
03 Jan, 2023 2022 – The year when decades happened By Anna Dabek Happy New Year from the employment and pensions team here at ACS! We saw out 2022 with the publication of our winter newsletter, looking...
27 Jul, 2022 Holiday pay case - the pensions implications By Doug Mullen The recent Supreme Court decision in Brazel v Harpur Trust confirmed that people who are employed to only work part of a year, such as...
22 Mar, 2022 P&O shipping in new workers – I’ll bet they haven’t checked the updated right to work checks By Hazel Findlay For 800 P&O Ferries’ employees, last week was a particularly bad one. Via a zoom meeting, they were informed they no longer had jobs and...