Business Service: Employment Law

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...

Employment solicitors Redhill

Employment Solicitors Reigate Employment law advice for individuals When you have problems at work you want them resolved quickly and cos...

How mental ill health can become an issue at work

On World Mental Health Day 2019 Joanne Kavanagh, Partner and Head of Employment looks at some astonishing facts and figures surrounding m...

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...

The truth about ‘Non-Disclosure Agreements’ and ‘Confidentiality Cl...

‘Non-Disclosure Agreements’ (NDA’s) and Confidentiality Agreements have been mentioned in the news a lot recently particularly in connect...

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...

Firing Senior Executives – Top Tips

In this article Joanne Kavanagh, Partner and Head of Employment sets out factors to be considered when terminating the employment of a se...

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...

A one-off act of harassment could be more costly than you think!

Compensation for acts of discrimination in employment is uncapped and includes an element for injury to feelings. The recent case of Base...

Thoughts from China: UK investment, immigration and tax

Morrisons Solicitors Partners Catherine Fisher and John Andrews, along with WSM Advisors Partner Simon Marsh, reflect on the biggest ques...

EuropeFides China Roadshow: Doing Business and Investing in the UK

In June, Morrisons Partners Catherine Fisher and John Andrews undertook a week-long roadshow across China, presenting on the topic of “Do...

Don’t leave it to the judges to protect your business!

The Supreme Court has recently heard its first employment case on restrictive covenants for a hundred years. The landmark 2019 case of Ti...

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Last chance saloon: employers can be liable even if only aware of a...

Employers sometimes only discover that an employee has a disability at a disciplinary or even appeal hearing.  This is most common with m...

Employer’s decision to dismiss an employee for “purely personal rea...

In Hare Wine Ltd v Kaur and anor the Court of Appeal held that an employee dismissed on the day of a TUPE transfer on the pretext of diff...

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