Mental Health and Wellbeing Awareness: Working From Home
We are all guilty of failing to make our mental health and wellbeing a priority at times, but the pandemic has taught us the importance of…
Employment
Employment Law | Employment Update April 2021
As HR professionals and senior managers, you know only too well the importance of keeping up to date with employment laws and how they may…
Sleeping on the Job?
Being paid to sleep may sound like the dream for some (pun intended); however, the reality is that for some vocations sleep-in shifts are…
Employment Law | Handling Investigations Remotely
Employment Law Partner, Chris Phillips takes you through handling investigations arising from disciplinary and grievance…
Working From Home or Living at Work?
Prior to March 2020 the number of people working from home was few and far between. Since March 2020 and Lockdown 1.0, this number has…
Employment Law | Monitoring and Managing Employee Performance
Employee monitoring software can give companies a means to monitor employees during the working day. Some may view this as an effective way…
Employment Law | Are you ready for IR35?
After a last minute delay due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the new IR35 rules will come in to force on 6 April 2021. Under these new rules,…
Immigration | What employers need to know after Brexit
On 1 January 2021, a new points-based immigration system came into effect for EU and non-EU nationals. These changes mean that…
Employment Law | Are you ready for 2021?
With 2020 now behind us, Employment Law Associate Amy Jones looks at what employment law updates we can expect to see in 2021.Topics…
What to expect in Employment Law in 2021
2020 was quite a year for employers in respect of having to adapt quickly and efficiently in the face of effectively a national lockdown…
Stay at Home to Stay Safe, but how safe are we working from home?
In February 2020 around 5.7% of workers in the UK worked from home. As a result of the pandemic that figure has now grown to around…
Employment Law | Remote Working: HR Questions Answered
Most people did not anticipate that remote working would become the norm for a substantial number of the workforce when the pandemic hit in…
Employment Webinar: Managing Employees Remotely
With around 40% of the UK workforce still working from home, it is likely this will continue through the winter months. Homeworking is a…
Reimagining the role of learning and development.
Learning and Development is used to describe everything a business does to encourage professional development among its employees, e.g.…
Employment Law Webinar: Flexible Working post-lockdown
As the furlough scheme is being tapered down and with restrictions gradually being eased businesses are beginning to think about their…
Employment Law | Reducing Workforce costs, Reorganisation and Redundancy.
As we make our way through the Government stages of easing lockdown, talk has turned to returning to business. For businesses who have…
Looking After Remote Workers: An Employer's Duties
Home and remote working have now become a fact of life for many of us, and with access to reliable technology virtual meetings and…
Job losses predicted to be worse than previously feared
A recent survey commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and recruitment company Adecco indicates a…
Travelling Abroad and the Quarantine rules: How will this affect your employment?
On 26 July the Scottish and UK Governments announced that, until further notice, a 14-day quarantine period will be reintroduced for…
TUPE and Multiple Transferees
In the case of ISS Facility Services NV v Sonia Govaerts & Atalian NV, formerly Euroclean NV, the ECJ has held that, where there is a…
Returning to Work: the end of shielding
Since March 2020 and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, the country’s health has been of paramount concern and for none more…