Blog Post Blog Post Ten Resolutions to make 2016 a less stressful HR year 5 January 2016 Amy Jones Employment Ten actions employers and HR professionals should take now to for a less stressful 2016 Employment Law Solicitor, Amy Jones shares his New…
Blog Post Blog Post What's new for Employment Law in 2016? 5 January 2016 Debbie Fellows Employment As we all get used to dating documents 2016 and Festive excesses become a distant memory, it’s a good time to consider the last year and…
Blog Post Blog Post Should employers and/or employees record internal hearings? 18 December 2015 Amy Jones Employment Is it good practice to record internal disciplinary or grievance hearings and what happens if an employee covertly records a hearing. At…
Blog Post Blog Post Employees face different outcomes for the same disciplinary incident 26 November 2015 Amy Jones Employment Is it fair for employees involved in the same disciplinary incident to be issued with different sanctions? In the case of MBNA…
Blog Post Blog Post Does whistleblowing legislation apply to internal disputes about terms of employment? 30 October 2015 Amy Jones Employment The EAT held that a dispute between an employer and a group of employees relating to their terms and conditions of employment was capable…
Blog Post Blog Post Name-blind Recruitment: An end to Racial Discrimination? 30 October 2015 Noele McClelland Employment Organisations from across the public and private sectors have agreed to use name-blind recruitment in an effort to combat discrimination…
Blog Post Blog Post HR involvement in disciplinary investigation rendered dismissal unfair in a warning to HR advisors 18 October 2015 Amy Jones Employment Employment Appeal Tribunal uphold decision where a disciplinary investigation that had been heavily influenced by HR resulted in unfair…
Blog Post Blog Post Employment and Abolition of the Driving Licence Counterpart 29 July 2015 Amy Jones Employment On 8 June 2015 the DVLA stopped issuing paper counterpart to the photocard driving licence and existing paper counterparts no longer have…
Blog Post Blog Post Holiday Pay Update - Is the law on overtime and holiday pay any clearer? 15 July 2015 Employment Employment Law specialist Noele McClelland looks at recent cases which have been shaped by claims involving holiday pay. For employment…
Blog Post Blog Post The Picture Becomes Clearer around Holidays, Sick Leave and Carry forward 8 July 2015 Employment The issue of employees being able to carry over holidays when they have been unable to take them due to being on long term sickness has…
Blog Post Blog Post Uniform Policies and Indirect Discrimination 8 July 2015 Amy Jones Employment Does your business have a uniform policy, and if so does it accommodate a person's religious beliefs? The extent to which an employer may…
Blog Post Blog Post Is Travelling Time Working Time? 23 June 2015 Amy Jones Employment Does the time that peripatetic workers (i.e. workers who are not assigned to a fixed or habitual place of work) spend travelling from home…
Blog Post Blog Post When is a disclosure in the public interest? 12 April 2015 Debbie Fellows Employment Whistleblowing remains a high profile topic and with the need for two years' service before an employee can raise an unfair dismissal case…
Blog Post Blog Post Whistleblowing what is it and what does it mean for employers? 6 April 2015 Amy Jones Employment Our recent mock tribunal centred on whether an employee had "blown the whistle" by making a qualifying disclosure. What exactly is a…
Blog Post Blog Post Zero Hours Contract: A key manifesto battleground in the 2015 General Election 1 April 2015 Debbie Fellows Employment One of the battlegrounds for the forthcoming General Election focuses on the use of zero hours contracts. Are they the scourge of society…
Blog Post Blog Post The 1D effect and Compassionate Leave for Employees 31 March 2015 Amy Jones Employment The Independent reported last week that employees have been requesting compassionate leave to cope with the news Zayn Malik has left One…
Blog Post Blog Post Employment Tribunal Limits to change. 18 February 2015 Amy Jones Employment With effect from 6 April 2015 the award limits for Employment Tribunals will increase. Every year, the UK Government revises the key…
Blog Post Blog Post Varying employment contracts without employee consent 13 February 2015 Amy Jones Employment From time to time, employers may have legitimate reasons to want to alter employees’ contracts. Amy Jones, Employment Law specialist looks…
Press Release Press Release National Minimum Wage: Government releases list of 33 businesses that have breached the law. 16 January 2015 Employment Following last week's recommendations from the TUC regarding stronger sanctions for employers not paying the national minimum wage, the…
Press Release Press Release TUC believes Government should do more to enforce sanctions for employers not paying the national minimum wage 13 January 2015 Employment, Firm News The union made recommendations in a report published yesterday on its website. Responding to this, Noele McClelland, Partner in the…
Blog Post Blog Post Social Media; The damage 140 characters can do continues to be highlighted 12 January 2015 Amy Jones Employment Social media and its alleged ills have again been in the news. Whether it is offensive comments relating to tragedies, critically ill…