Considering redundancies? Why settlement agreements are your friend. This time last year, we were edging out of the Covid-19 pandemic with the furlough scheme being wound up. Fast forward 12...
Protecting Pregnant Workers and New Mothers In order to protect pregnant workers and new mothers, employers are required to carry out an individual risk assessment. This applies to workers who...
Hybrid Working & Bullying: What Employers Need to Know Shifts towards home and hybrid working make it harder for employers to manage inappropriate behavior at work and prevent bullying becoming...
Lack of Belief in Transgenderism is protected under the Equality Act 2010 Religion or belief is one of nine protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010 and is defined...
What rights do Carer’s have at work? Over the last few years, the government have been talking about introducing statutory time off for employees who having caring responsibilities at home....
An Employee's Right to be Accompanied: What Employers Need to Know All employees have a legal right to be accompanied to meetings in certain circumstances, and this applies regardless of...
Health & Safety Post-Covid – Be Complacent at Your Peril As all Covid government rules and restrictions are removed, the phrase we hear so often from small and medium-sized business...
Conducting Staff Appraisals Many small business owners aren’t too excited by the idea of conducting staff appraisals. There’s often a pre-conception that delivering a staff appraisal is a process to...
Long-COVID symptoms found to constitute a disability An employment tribunal has determined that an employee with long COVID symptoms was disabled within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality...
Strikes: A summer of discontent Now is the summer of our discontent…strikes in the rail industry have been followed by strikes and the threat of strikes in aviation, legal, education,...
