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Consumer Update

Our exclusive monthly update for businesses who provide goods or services for consumers, including the hospitality and leisure, retail, food and drink, and consumer products sectors.

February 2023

  • What other employers can learn from McDonald’s legal commitment to eliminate sexual harassment from its restaurants
  • ‘Skintellectuals,’ ‘hybrid high streets’ and the ‘lipstick effect’
  • Restaurants must be resilient as outlook remains bleak
  • UK economy narrowly avoided recession
  • Significant rise in pub and bar insolvencies
  • The Pret Foundation: expert advice for the hospitality sector
  • Staying secure in a digital age
  • Cookies, consent and banner compliance: what organisations need to know about the EDPB’s new best practice guidance
  • Watchdog upholds two complaints against Huel, ruling adverts were misleading
  • Irwin Mitchell advises Gravity to secure up to £30 million funding to continue growth
  • Hospitality sector M&A increased in 2022 according to latest deal data.

January 2023

  • Irwin Mitchell advises on job-saving consumer sector deal
  • Millions of customers hit by JD Sports' cyber-attack
  • Restructuring to save costs in retail
  • A six-month extension to the alcohol duty freeze
  • Tesco facing UK lawsuit over F&F working conditions
  • The legal issues of retail HQ closures
  • The Employment (Allocations of Tips) Bill soon to become law
  • Ambush Marketing and the 2022 and 2023 FIFA World Cups
  • ESG services for your business

December 2022

  • Survey reveals the reality of quiet firing in the consumer sector
  • A plant-based Christmas?
  • Five reasons to remind your staff to behave during the festivities
  • Why you should include micro-aggression in your diversity and equality training
  • Can you refuse to employ someone with visible tattoos?

November 2022

  • Will it be a World Cup to remember for the consumer sector?
  • Protecting IP rights in an economic downturn
  • Business interruption insurance revisited
  • American brand explosion in the UK - what’s driving it and what are key considerations? 
  • Added protection against redundancy for new parents and pregnant women

October 2022

  • Being alive to the warning signs is so crucial in a business crisis
  • Honesty is the best policy
  • A costly outcome: the “Wagatha Christie” trial
  • Climate change dominates Recycling and Waste Management Show
  • Can employers insist that staff use other people’s preferred pronouns?

September 2022

  • Hydrogen powered delivery vehicles: a glimpse into the future?
  • Designer refused promotion awarded £85,000 for age discrimination
  • Our holiday pay webinar: more questions answered
  • Forget the ‘great resignation’: quiet quitting is in vogue (and it’s bad news for employers)

August 2022

  • In the midst of the cost of living crisis, what do businesses need to consider?
  • Is co-retailing the answer?
  • Airport chaos: what options do employers have if holiday plans go awry?
  • Holiday entitlement and pay of term-time and other part-year workers: top 10 questions answered

July 2022

  • Explained: termination clauses
  • John Lewis – ditching retail for real estate
  • 80% work for 100% pay: what you need to know about the four-day working week
  • Managing shift workers: how to avoid legal pitfalls

June 2022

  • What next in the cost of living crisis?
  • Full steam ahead for net zero
  • Save your USP: withstanding the cost of living crisis and disputing increases in supplier costs
  • The bald truth: can making a derogatory remark about a man’s lack of hair amount to harassment related to sex?

May 2022

  • At a time when the cost of living is rising, what matters most to consumers?
  • Queen’s Speech: what are the implications for employment law?
  • Five free resources to help your organisation support perimenopausal and menopausal staff
  • Manufacturing and collaborative R&D - Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha work together on standardised battery

April 2022

  • NFTs in the music industry and your intellectual property
  • A smart approach to ESG – practical tips for GCs
  • New guidance on self-isolation and reducing the spread of COVID-19
  • Post pandemic business on the move
  • A not so minor pentatonic predicament resolved: Ed Sheeran wins at the High Court

March 2022

  • The regulators are coming – taking on the ‘greenwashing’ of consumer businesses
  • Diverse boards = better profits. So why is it taking so long to improve diversity?
  • COVID-19 adjusted right to work checks to continue until September 2022: what you need to know
  • New public health advice for people with COVID-19 and their contacts
  • Protecting your finances – three ways to alleviate the cost of living bite

February 2022

  • Court of Appeal makes it harder for employers to defeat holiday pay claims
  • Global mobility – a focus on immigration into the UK
  • Net zero future dominates agenda at National Manufacturing Summit
  • The Great Resignation and restrictive covenants: a reminder for businesses to take legal advice before employing individuals

January 2022

  • The disruptors affecting consumer businesses in 2022

November 2021

  • More success for the IP team in the General Court
  • Expert support and advice critical as shortages increase financial pressure on manufacturers 
  • What should you do if you find out someone is disabled after you've dismissed them?
  • Legal report highlights growing role of GCs in moving ESG up the corporate agenda
  • Episode 38: doing business and expanding operations in the US

October 2021

  • Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers: sustaining green claims throughout the supply chain
  • UK brands sign up to new Influencer Marketing Code of Conduct
  • Moving up a gear: why parking is a valuable commodity
  • What you need to know about doing business in Canada

September 2021

  • Brands and corporate social responsibility
  • Harassment in the workplace – employers should adopt a zero tolerance approach
  • Making Tax Digital for income tax
  • COVID-19 response: government sets out its plan for autumn and winter
  • Episode 32: embracing equality and diversity

August 2021

  • Putting a stop to anonymous online defamation
  • Beware greenwashing: sustaining environmental claims in advertising in 2021
  • Many businesses yet to grasp significance of Brexit divergence on parallel trading laws
  • Episode 30: new ways of working – embedding flexible, agile and hybrid working in your business
  • Virtual event: opportunities and challenges for UK businesses when doing business in the USA

July 2021

  • Are you thinking about adopting an agile or hybrid working pattern?
  • #Ads and the ASA – the who, what, how and why to disclosing paid-for content
  • Carry on regardless – an update on ‘pop up’ campsites
  • Court of Appeal’s key decision on tenant break rights
  • COVID-19: list published of 16 sectors where workers may be exempt from ‘close contact’ self isolation

June 2021

  • Social media, the Financial Conduct Authority and providing investment advice
  • Thinking about adopting a hybrid working pattern? 12 things to consider
  • Carry on camping
  • Seller account suspensions and groundless intellectual property infringement complaints
  • Nero CVA challenge to proceed to full trial

May 2021

  • Court fines Tesco £7.5 million for selling out of date food and calls its defence “an affront to common sense”
  • Permission to appeal granted on five grounds in New Look CVA challenges
  • Foreign direct investment and the UK economy
  • Solent Freeport set to make waves: what we know so far
  • EU settlement scheme: what options do your staff have if they miss the deadline?

April 2021

  • Weddings in a pandemic – where are we now as we come out of coronavirus lockdown?
  • Get rich quick or too good to be true? Giveaway raffles and staying on the right side of gambling provision regulations
  • Asda workers win latest round of long running equal pay fight
  • Business interruption insurance – insurers start to pay out

March 2021

  • Three reasons why you need a strategy to protect your staff against verbal abuse by customers
  • More takeaway pints! Thanks, Bob!
  • Modern slavery reporting requirements
  • The power of influencer marketing in a changing consumer world
  • BrewDog’s recipe for success

February 2021

  • How New Buying Behaviours Are Shaping Consumer Businesses

January 2021

  • As the Class E permitted development consultation closes, what next for England’s high streets?
  • Employment law changes 2021 – guide for businesses
  • New lockdown grants available to retail, hospitality and leisure sectors
  • Battle of the breweries: how Northern Monk and Hesket Newmarket Brewery turned their potential trade mark dispute into a collaborative success
  • Listen now: how to manage the impact of Brexit on your supply chain

December 2020

  • The UK economy beyond coronavirus
  • Government launches new consultation to ban all online advertising for unhealthy foods
  • #Influenced by the influencer marketing trend? Here’s why it works
  • Use Class E – still the future of the high street?
  • Data and the social dilemma for businesses

October 2020

  • From retail to rental: John Lewis to enter the property rental market
  • Right to work checks post-Brexit – don’t ask about settled status (yet)
  • What role does leisure have in communities of the future?
  • Consumer purchasing trends and the importance of inclusivity in your brand
  • Success in the face of adversity

September 2020

  • The future of leases: Retail
  • Business interruption insurance: An unexpected judgment
  • Is it better to be friends than foes?
  • A ‘grow-your-own’ economy and the impact on UK M&A
  • Coronavirus: FAQs about self-isolation, test and trace and statutory sick pay

August 2020

  • Summer Statement: Analysis of the key announcements
  • The high street in a post-COVID world
  • The future of e-commerce – is now the prime time to go online?
  • Slavery in the supply chain – bringing tears to your eyes
  • The saving grace of the high street?

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