25 Jun, 2024 On-call and standby shifts – working time or not? By Katherine Sinclair Libby Hubbard The Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) can be problematic in so far as they only differentiate between working time and rest time, yet...
10 Jun, 2024 Home office decision to revoke social care provider's sponsorship licence without allowing time for representation unlawful By Katherine Sinclair Immigration may be the political hot potato of the campaign trail but for many social care providers, the employment of overseas workers...
16 Mar, 2023 Mandatory professional qualifications required for social housing managers By Katherine Sinclair The last days of February bought a rather shocking announcement for the sector; an amendment to the Social Housing (Regulations) Bill...
17 Aug, 2022 Celebrating women in housing…and it doesn’t stop there! By Katherine Sinclair Anthony Collins Solicitors were proud to sponsor the Women of the Future Awards at the recent Women in Housing Awards 2022 (part of the...
07 Jun, 2022 Too good to be true or a truly revolutionary new way of doing work? By Katherine Sinclair Yesterday marked the start trial of about 70 companies in the UK 'taking part in what is thought to be the world's biggest pilot scheme...
31 Mar, 2022 Whistleblowing and the culture of fear in social housing: a cultural shift is long overdue By Katherine Sinclair Anyone who read the recent article in Inside Housing on the secret life of a fire risk assessor will have been horrified at the litany of...
10 Feb, 2022 Dismissals in education – easy as ABC? I think not! By Katherine Sinclair Knowland v Eton College (Case No.3306496/21) A teacher posts a lecture on YouTube with some opinions seemingly out of sync with those...
03 Feb, 2022 U-turn on mandatory vaccination - implications for social housing providers and Q&A pointers for how to respond By Katherine Sinclair A week is a long time in politics and isn’t that the truth this week? But what are the implications of the shenanigans of this week for...
20 Jan, 2022 Cutting contractual sick pay for unvaccinated staff – is it lawful or wise? By Katherine Sinclair What do IKEA, Wessex Water, Ocado and Next have in common? Not a great deal, other than when it comes to unvaccinated employees – they...
01 Oct, 2021 'Making flexible working the default' consultation launched – confirmation of rights from day one delayed By Katherine Sinclair In my blog post last week, I wrote that we were expecting the Government to confirm the highly anticipated legislative reforms in...
22 Sep, 2021 Flexible working: Confirmation of rights from day one of employment to be announced tomorrow By Katherine Sinclair Tomorrow, it is anticipated that the Government is set to confirm reforms enabling employees to request the right to work from home from...
01 Jul, 2021 Flexible working: a perk for the few not a right for the many? By Katherine Sinclair When our current statutory right to request flexible working was introduced in 2014, the world of work was a world away from...