17 Jul, 2024 Corporate sustainability and supply chain due diligence By Emma Watt The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ((EU) 2024/1760) (the Directive) comes into force on 25 July 2024 and introduces new...
11 Jul, 2024 Acronyms anyone?? There's a new MoU between RSH and HO By Sarah Patrice The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) and the Housing Ombudsman Service (HO) have put in place a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
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...
01 Jul, 2024 Securing the future of employee ownership By David Alcock With six days to go until polling day, it was great to read the Employee Ownership Association's proposals for building on the expansion...
21 Jun, 2024 Investigation into chatbot - a 'warning shot for industry' By Emma Watt The ICO has concluded its investigation into Snap Inc.’s use of its 'My AI' chatbot feature on the Snapchat platform. The My AI chatbot...
18 Jun, 2024 Corporate transactions with employment specialists: the perfect podcast collaboration By Laura Jordan Michael Brownlee The sale or purchase of a business is never just about the contracts, the indemnities, the warranties and the late-night negotiations;...
22 May, 2024 Muddying the waters of volunteer status By Katherine Sinclair Esther Campsall Volunteers are the lifeblood of many charitable organisations. Those organisations could not exist without them, but neither could they...
21 May, 2024 A conversation about sushi – small talk, or harassment? By Jackie Morris In the case of Sato-Rossberg -v- SOAS University of London, an employment judge has dismissed claims by a Japanese professor that she was...
17 May, 2024 Procuring regeneration projects under the Procurement Act 2023: playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the same order! By Mark Cook Local authorities and housing associations are at the centre of many land-based projects, whether this is for small-scale developments,...
03 May, 2024 In case you missed it: key takeaways from our webinar on exclusions and debarment under the Procurement Act 2023 By Amy Callahan-Page Earlier this week, my colleague Dr Steven Brunning and I held a webinar to outline the main changes to the exclusions provisions that the...
30 Apr, 2024 Our podcasts are back...we were on a break! By Libby Hubbard After a short break, our employment and pensions podcasts are back! They are crammed with more comments and content on the latest HR...
30 Apr, 2024 Creating safe workplaces for women and men - what can we learn? By Jackie Morris Libby Hubbard Statistically speaking sexual harassment is more of an issue for women in the workplace. That said, all employers would be wise to...