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The Fair Work Agency: What Small Employers Need to Know

The Government has proposed creating a new Fair Work Agency (FWA) as part of wider

Gender Pay Gap & Menopause Action Plans: What This Could Mean for Employers and Employees

The UK Government is strengthening workplace equality measures by encouraging employers, particularly larger ones, to

The new ACAS draft Code of Practice: What Employers need to know

ACAS has released its first full rewrite since 2009, replacing the 2015 amended Code of

Guidance for the shift to Guaranteed Hours

Guaranteed hours will begin in 2027, with the exact month confirmed by secondary legislation. This

New Tipping Law Could Cost You £5,000 Per Worker

From 1st October 2024, a new law will prohibit employers from withholding tips, gratuities, and

The Employment Rights Bill

100 days is fast approaching !!! On the 17th July His Majesty King Charles III

Major Employment law updates are underway, which include policy changes and training requirements

Retained EU Law As of January 2024, carryover leave into the next holiday year is

Gender Pay Gap

The gender pay gap is the measurement of the differences in the average earnings of

Employment law changes coming in 2023

In this blog we focus ahead on the 2023 employment law changes. 1. 2023

Changes to employees’ payments of statutory rights have been announced

Changes to employees’ payments of statutory rights have been announced by the Department of Pensions

The World Cup 2022

The World Cup 2022 tournament starts this week and a number of the games this

Government backs new laws to ensure all workers receive their full tips

A bill for ensuring fair tips for all workers has reached final stages in parliament.

Are you calculating staff holidays correctly?

In the case of Harpur Trust vs Brazel 2022, the Supreme Court has concluded that

Are your childcare policies supportive of working families?

Are your childcare policies supportive of working families? The UK’s birth rate is showing a

The government’s decision is not to legislate on employment status!

On 26 July 2022 the government announced their decision not to legislate on employment status

Have you considered a period policy?

In Spain there is a plan to start introducing a period policy to give colleagues

Supreme Court rules CV fraud can be prosecuted, with offenders ordered to pay back part of the salary paid!

The Supreme Court ruled that people who fraudulently mislead their CV must pay back at

The Government has introduced new legislation to allow agency workers to cover the workforce during a strike

The Government has introduced new legislation to allow agency workers to cover the workforce during

The Neonatal Care Bill received government backing

On 15 July 2022, the government backed new legislation to allow parents whose babies require

What employers need to know about the new ‘fire and rehire’ updates

It has been common practice for employers to dismiss and reengage their employees to make

More healthcare professionals given powers to certify fit notes

New legislation will allow a wider range of healthcare professionals to certify fit notes. The

Employee recognition, is it more important than ever?

If you are recruiting, you no doubt will have identified that at the moment it

Tribunal rules that a nurse was unfairly dismissed due to her sickness

In May 2020 a senior nurse was dismissed for her sickness absence record caused by

Today marks the start of Men’s Health week 2022.

It is estimated In England, that around one in eight men have a common mental