While details are still emerging, yesterday it was announced that Christian Horner, principal of the Red Bull F1 team has been dismissed with immediate effect after 20 years. Mr Horner faced allegations of sexual harassment and coercive and controlling...
The Government has just published its timetable for implementing its ‘flagship’ Employment Rights Bill. In some ways it’s good news – the most significant change and the one most employers had been wary of is the introduction of the...
News 📰 AI and biometrics strategy It has been announced by the UK Information Commissioner that a new AI and biometrics strategy will be launched, which will clarify the position regarding how AI and automated decision-making can be used safely...
News 📰 Neonatal Care Leave and Pay Since the new statutory entitlements to Neonatal Care Leave and Pay came into effect on 6 April 2025, Acas have published guidance to assist employers to ensure that they are meeting their responsibilities. The...
News 📰 Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025 From 6 April 2025, the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025 revises particular compensatory awards and statutory payments, as follows: In an event of unfair dismissal, the...
News 📰 Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 In an update from last month’s newsletter, the Government has now confirmed that the provisions for neonatal care leave will come into force on 6 April 2025 . With a confirmed date of...
With news of employment reforms in 2024 being dominated by the Employment Rights Bill, we are now expecting to see further reforms being drafted and announced in 2025. News 📰 The Draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill Announced in the...
News 📰 Employment Rights Bill update Negative opinion on the Impact Assessments for the Employment Rights Bill Before the dust has had time to settle on the recently released details of the Employment Rights Bill, the Regulatory Policy Committee...
News 📰 Employment Rights Bill 2024-2025 updates Following the publication of the Employment Rights Bill early last month, the Bill has now passed its second reading after a lengthy debate, during which opposition MPs argued that there should be...
News 📰 Labour’s Employment Rights Bill has been released The Labour government’s new Employment Rights Bill was released on 10 October 2024. As yet, there is no firm implementation date for the new legislation, although commentators are...
News 📰 Compressed hours proposal At the end of August, it was suggested that, as part of their employment law reforms, the Labour government may allow employees to work a four-day week. Beyond the current provisions allowing employees to request...
News 📰 In the first King’s Speech since the general election, the new Labour government has confirmed that it will introduce an Employment Rights Bill within its first 100 days and will publish a draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill. On...
Following Labour’s election victory, we can expect some big changes to employment law. We covered their proposals in last month’s employment law update and they have pledged to bring in most of these within their first 100 days in office....
News 📰 Labour’s Green Paper The big news in the employment world this month is Labour’s proposals set out in their Green Paper on changes they intend to make to employment law, should they become our next government following the...
Last month saw a significant number of employment law changes come into force on 6 April. The pace of change has since continued unabated and so this month’s update covers the latest developments in case law, changes affecting the hospitality sector...
News 📰 There have been a number of key changes implemented in March/April 2024, including: Statutory paternity leave – 8 March 2024 Leave can now be taken in separate one week blocks. Leave can be taken any time in the 52 weeks after the...
Breaking news 📰 From 6 April 2024, the limit to a week’s pay for the purposes of calculating statutory redundancy payments will increase from £643 to £700. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal claims will increase...
A recent story caught the headlines because the Employment Tribunal upheld the decision of the Financial Conduct Authority that an employee should not be allowed to work entirely from home. The employee had been working from home since the beginning of...
With the new changes to the Working Time Regulations (introduced on 1 January 2024), we thought now would be a good time to recap on the basics of calculating holiday entitlement and pay. The changes are supposed to have made details of holiday entitlement...
News 📰 Changes to the Working Time Regulations The new year kicked off with amendments to the Working Time Regulations which came into effect on 1st January 2024. The changes mainly deal with how employers calculate the amount of holiday that...
