Article parent: employment-law-employer
-
News & Insights
Tricky Issue – Changing Terms of Employment
As businesses seek to move past the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, many are considering new or revised ways to conti...
-
News & Insights
The coronavirus fallout – dealing with redundancies
The chancellor announced on 29 April that more than four million employees have been furloughed – download our previous guidance no...
-
News & Insights
Settlement agreements rather than furloughing? Five top tips for em...
Many employers have opted to furlough their staff, but the reality is that some have had to make the difficult decision to make staff red...
-
News & Insights
Coronavirus: new right to holiday carry over and further Government...
Workers (including those on zero hours contracts) can now carry forward up to 4 weeks of untaken statutory leave into the next two years ...
-
News & Insights
The implications of coronavirus for your staff
The spread of coronavirus means that businesses are having to deal with unique work situations and put in place business continuity plans...
-
News & Insights
New right to parental bereavement leave
New right to parental bereavement leave From 6 April 2020, employees will be entitled to take parental bereavement leave (PBL) following ...
-
News & Insights
Is your business ready for a change?
This is an issue of relevance to our corporate clients wanting to ensure their businesses are sufficiently agile to adapt to market chang...
-
News & Insights
Holiday pay for term time only workers should not be pro-rated to f...
Holiday entitlement is a sensitive issue for workers and those employed part time often feel they are losing out. The recent Court of Ap...
-
News & Insights
Warning to employers of the risks of stereotypical assumptions
Tribunal cases where claims of unlawful discrimination have succeeded because of stereotypical assumptions by the decision-maker, rather ...
-
News & Insights
Speaking confidentially….
Having effective post termination obligations protecting your business to include your customer connections, skilled employees and confid...
-
News & Insights
Working through the menopause
The symptoms of the menopause can by physical (e.g. hot flushes, migraines, skin irritation) but also psychological (e.g. lack of concent...
-
News & Insights
How mental ill health can become an issue at work
On World Mental Health Day 2019 we look at some astonishing facts and figures surrounding mental health in the workplace. Joanne explores...
-
News & Insights
Can an employee be dismissed for secretly recording a meeting at work?
It is very easy indeed with the advent of mobiles phones for an employee to secretly record a disciplinary or other internal meeting on t...
-
News & Insights
Round-up of family friendly rights August 2019
Elizabeth Maxwell, Solicitor in our Employment team has reviewed some of the headline hitting developments in family friendly rights over...
-
News & Insights
Firing Senior Executives – Top Tips
In this article our Employment team set out factors to be considered when terminating the employment of a senior executive. Following a t...
-
News & Insights
Employers face tougher rules on recording working hours
Businesses could face legal action if they do not properly record all hours actually worked by workers, including authorised overtime, sa...