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...
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...
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;...
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...
11 May, 2023 See EU Later - Government announces post-Brexit changes By Libby Hubbard Just when you thought we had run out of EU-related puns, here we are again! Yesterday was a busy old day for employment lawyers as...
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 Nov, 2022 The autumn statement - Priorities for social care providers By Matthew Wort Hopes that Jeremy Hunt's time as chair of the Health and Social Care Committee would influence the content of the autumn statement were...
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...
01 Apr, 2022 Updated Infection Prevention and Control guidance – What does this mean for vaccination and testing? By Matthew Wort You might have seen my blog on whether VCOD really is the end of mandatory vaccinations for the health and social care sector, following...
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...
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...