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Insights from our Managing Director: Family First

Insights from our Managing Director; Gavin Howarth Family First Anyone who works in business with their dad, mum, brother, sister, spouse or other family member knows that if you let...

Reflecting on 2019: Here are some of our highlights…

  We can’t believe 2019 is almost at a close! It’s been an eventful year full of developments here at Howarths, so we thought we’d take a minute to reflect...

5 ways HR saves your business money…

1. By reducing the chances of you recruiting the wrong people Many businesses waste precious resource recruiting the wrong people by not having a properly thought out recruitment process. Those...

Annual leave roll over and sickness

Under the EU’s Working Time Directive, all member states are required to provide all full time employees with at least 4 weeks (or 20 days’) paid annual leave each year....

General Election 2019: Parties publish employment law policies

  Within the last couple of weeks, the three main political parties (the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats) have all published their respective manifestos. Each party has advanced some...

Christmas overtime: How long can staff work for?

In some sectors, there is no getting away from the fact that overtime during the Christmas period is likely to be a necessity. The retail, hospitality, healthcare and leisure industries...

A Year of Recognition for Howarths

  It’s been quite the year for team Howarths when it comes to awards. After scooping the Family Business of the Year title at the 2018 National Family Business Awards,...

Howarths launch Business Immigration Law support service

We are happy to announce that we now offer business immigration law support services here at Howarths. The launch of this new service follows the completion of the Chartered Institute...