Alexandra Addington

Employment law changes 2025: guide for HR and line managers

Happy new year to all of our readers.  Significant changes are on the horizon over the next 12-18 months which will impact your budgets...

09/01/25

Joanne Moseley

Standby or on-call: are your employees working or resting?

Working time includes any period where a worker is working, at their employer’s disposal and carrying out activities or duties. Time...

05/07/24

Joanne Moseley

Five employment cases that have affected the education sector in 2019

As December looms we look back on the cases that have significantly impacted on the education sector over the last 12 months. Holiday pay...

25/11/19

Joanne Moseley

Northern Ireland: Court of Appeal rule that holiday pay claims can go back to 1998

A decision of the NI Court of Appeal in Chief Constable of the Police Service of NI and others v Agnew will cause those employers who...

25/06/19

Joanne Moseley

Top employment cases that will shape 2018/19

We have identified the cases which will have a big impact on employment law and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. These...

09/10/18

Irwin Mitchell

EAT confirms you can't work while you sleep

Mr Shannon must have hoped that he'd discovered an extremely lucrative loophole in the National Minimum Wage Regulations. He argued that...

07/10/15