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March 2023

  • How likely are you to get the right candidate if your job advert requires someone prepared to ‘live and breathe’ the job?
  • Do you have to pay staff if you can’t operate your business due to energy blackouts?
  • EHCPs – guidance on securing the best possible outcome
  • What other employers can learn from McDonald’s legal commitment to eliminate sexual harassment from its restaurants
  • Podcast: hidden disabilities in the workplace
  • March 2023: news in brief

February 2023

  • National Apprenticeship Week 2023
  • Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: implications for the education sector
  • Why’s ‘loud quitting’ a risky strategy?
  • New plans will allow employers to pro-rate holiday for term-time and casual workers
  • Employment law changes 2023: guide for HR and line managers
  • Government rejects key proposals from ‘menopause and the workplace’ report
  • Industrial disputes: understanding the basics
  • Podcast: conducting workplace investigations
  • February 2023: news in brief

January 2023

  • DfE guidance and funding for energy efficiency measures in schools and colleges
  • Protecting the rights of young people who have been accused of sexual abuse or harassment at college
  • What are the employment law implications of the ONS reclassification of colleges?
  • Employment law changes 2023: guide for schools and colleges
  • Myth-busting Brazel: tips for the education sector
  • Podcast: the right to request flexible working from day one
  • January 2023: news in brief

December 2022

  • Can you refuse to employ someone because they have visible tattoos?
  • Recruitment: should the role of a ‘period dignity officer’ go to a woman?
  • Proposed new teacher misconduct rules fill existing loopholes and extend to the FE sector
  • World cup 2022: eight workplace issues HR need to be aware of
  • Employment Talk: the HR issues affecting you podcast
  • December 2022: news in brief

November 2022

  • Pregnant women and new parents to get added protection against being made redundant
  • Can employers insist that staff use other people's preferred pronouns?
  • Acas publishes new guidance on staff suspensions
  • Do you need to introduce an IVF policy?
  • Strikes: government set to introduce minimum transport service levels to ensure people can get to work and children to school
  • Listen now: What is quiet quitting and what does it mean for your business?
  • November 2022: news in brief

October 2022

  • Our holiday pay webinar: more questions answered
  • Brace yourself: new Bill may fundamentally change employment law by the end of 2023
  • Forget the ‘great resignation’: quiet quitting is in vogue (and it’s bad news for employers)
  • Keeping children safe in education: (some) clarity over extent of online checks
  • Right to Work checks have changed from 1 October 2022
  • October 2022: news in brief

September 2022

  • Breastfeeding: what are an employer's legal responsibilities?
  • CEO who lied about his qualifications and experience forced to repay some of his earnings
  • What can employers learn from the latest case on gender critical discrimination?
  • Cost of living crisis: union calls on government to increase National Minimum Wage to £15.00 per hour
  • Designer refused promotion awarded £85,000 for age discrimination
  • September 2022: news in brief

August 2022

  • Holiday entitlement and pay of term-time workers: top 10 questions answered
  • Can staff express gender critical beliefs if they upset or conflict with the views of their colleagues?
  • 80% work for 100% pay: what you need to know about the four-day working week
  • New report calls for menopause to be added to the list of protected characteristics under the Equality Act
  • Employment legislation update
  • August 2022: news in brief

July 2022

  • Government set to introduce new legislation to allow temporary agency staff to cover striking workers
  • Keeping children safe in education: how to conduct social media checks (and remain within the law)
  • Long COVID and disability: what HR need to know
  • Unions starting to ask schools and colleges to sign joint protocol on management of long-COVID
  • The bald truth: can making a derogatory remark about a man’s lack of hair amount to harassment related to sex?
  • How to upskill line managers on employment law 
  • July 2022: news in brief

June 2022

  • Employee nicknamed "half-dead Dave" awarded £13,000 for injury to his feelings
  • How much can you deduct from the salary of a teacher who is on strike?
  • Do you need to introduce a period policy?
  • Queen's speech 2022: what are the implications for employment law?
  • June 2022: news in brief

May 2022

  • Five free resources to help your organisation support perimenopausal and menopausal staff
  • Redundancy: employer using 'focus' as part of selection criteria discriminated against mother of four
  • EAT decides that employee who took voluntary redundancy could claim unfair dismissal
  • Shift patterns, childcare and indirect sex discrimination claims
  • Government rejects compulsory ethnic pay gap reporting
  • May 2022: news in brief

April 2022

  • New guidance on self-isolation and reducing the spread of COVID-19: implications for the education sector
  • Tackling the menopause taboo in the workplace
  • Gender pay gap bot exposes gap between reality and rhetoric
  • Computer says no: unpicking the employment risks of AI
  • April 2022: news in brief

March 2022

  • End of COVID-19 rules: implications for schools and colleges
  • Do you need to change your payslips to reference the increase in NI?
  • What's the best way to deal with a serial complainer?
  • Court of Appeal makes it harder for employers to defeat holiday pay claims
  • Are you liable for practical jokes that go wrong?
  • March 2022: news in brief

February 2022

  • The end of Plan B: what does living with COVID-19 mean for employers?
  • COVID-19: employee who was sacked after raising health and safety concerns was protected under whistleblowing legislation
  • Can you reduce contractual sick pay for unvaccinated members of staff?
  • Boss harassed sales assistant by asking if she was menopausal
  • Ten most important employment law cases of 2021
  • February 2022: news in brief

January 2022

  • Employment law changes 2022: guide for schools and colleges
  • New COVID-19 self-isolation rules
  • Statutory sick pay – new rules in force
  • Fear of COVID-19 not protected under UK discrimination law
  • Employee unfairly dismissed for raising safety concerns on the day of the first lockdown
  • January 2022: news in brief

December 2021

  • Update: term-time working and holiday
  • FAQ: are teachers and support staff entitled to an extra bank holiday next year?
  • Knowledge and disability: what should you do if you find out someone is disabled after you've dismissed them?
  • Supreme Court applies brakes to compensation claims for data breaches
  • Eight tips to help schools and colleges retain and attract staff
  • December 2021: news in brief

November 2021

  • Supreme Court considers whether employers can lawfully make direct offers to staff when collective bargaining fails
  • Damning report reveals over 40% of women experience sexual harassment at work
  • Government explains how new right to take carer's leave will work
  • 'Fowl' investigation costs employer over £5k
  • Are menopausal symptoms a disability in law?
  • November 2021: News in brief 

October 2021

  • Significant increase in the number of women bringing claims linked to the menopause
  • Government starts consultation on making flexible working the default position
  • Do you have to give an employee the opportunity to appeal against their dismissal if they are made redundant?
  • Labour Party announce plans to improve employment protection for workers (if it gets into power)
  • Is the government going to compel large employers to report on their ethnic pay gaps?
  • October 2021: News in brief

September 2021

  • Do you have to maintain the pay rate of a disabled employee who has moved to a lower paid job?
  • Self-isolation, COVID-19 vaccinations and GDPR: employers’ questions answered
  • Flexible working policies: indirect discrimination and the childcare disparity
  • Government's vision to transform disabled peoples' working lives: will anything change?
  • Employer who failed to consider furlough as an alternative to redundancy unfairly dismissed employee
  • September 2021: News in brief

August 2021

  • FAQs about self isolation and COVID safety requirements
  • Teacher fairly dismissed after child porn found on his home computer
  • Employers guide to the NHS test and trace app
  • COVID-19: employee who refused to return to work to protect his vulnerable father was unfairly dismissed
  • New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
  • 2021 exams appeals process: key things to know
  • August 2021: News in brief

July 2021

  • Employee who asked to be furloughed because of fears about COVID-19 wasn’t unfairly dismissed
  • Sending a pregnant woman home during COVID-19 lockdown wasn’t maternity discrimination
  • A belief that men and women can’t change their biological sex is protected under the Equality Act 2010
  • Twelve things to consider before you implement an agile/hybrid working policy
  • July 21: News in brief

June 2021

  • Why you should treat menopause as a workplace issue
  • Everyone’s Invited: what’s the best way for schools and colleges to respond to allegations against their staff?
  • EU settlement scheme: what options do your staff have if they miss the deadline?
  • Queen’s Speech: the implications for employment law (or not)
  • June 2021: News in brief

May 2021

  • Holidays abroad – school and college questions answered
  • Employee who refused to work from home because he believed his workplace posed as ‘serious and imminent’ danger loses unfair dismissal claim
  • Right to work checks – COVID-19 flexibility due to end on Sunday 16 May
  • Another tribunal finds that menopausal symptoms amount to a disability
  • May 2021: News in brief

April 2021

  • Supreme Court rules that workers providing sleep in shifts aren’t entitled to the National Minimum Wage
  • Employment Appeals Tribunal starts to diffuse the holiday pay time bomb
  • Six ways your organisation can support trans employees
  • Is your institution having problems with your IT supplier?
  • April 2021: News in brief

March 2021

  • Seven things for schools and colleges to consider before 8 March
  • The shielding programme has been expanded – does it impact on your school or college?
  • How often do you train your staff on equality and discrimination?
  • Treasury scraps £95,000 cap on public sector exit payments
  • March 2021: News in brief

February 2021

  • No vaccine, no job? Can schools and colleges insist their staff take the COVID-19 vaccine?
  • Long COVID – implications for schools and colleges
  • Is the government planning to amend the Working Time Regulations?
  • Furlough: new rules for calculating the pay of variable hours workers
  • February 2021: News in brief – Schools
  • February 2021: News in brief – Colleges

January 2021

  • Key employment cases that will affect the education sector in 2021
  • Employment law changes 2021: guide for schools and colleges
  • Are schools and colleges safe places to work?
  • Update on establishing lateral flow tests in schools and colleges
  • January 2021:News in brief – Schools
  • January 2021: News in brief – Colleges

December 2020

  • Impact of regional tiers on schools and colleges – your questions answered 
  • DBS filtering rules have changed – what you need to know
  • Are you planning to furlough staff under the extended scheme? 
  • Bullying: should you excuse the behaviour of someone who says they didn’t mean to upset colleagues?
  • December 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • December 2020: News in brief – Colleges

November 2020

  • Furlough scheme extended as England gets ready to go into another national lockdown
  • Will the £95,000 cap on public sector exit payments impact your school?
  • Why did an employment tribunal order an ex-employee to pay £432,000 towards his employer’s costs?
  • Employee privacy in the spotlight
  • November 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • November 2020: News in brief – Colleges

October 2020

  • Can you fairly dismiss a teacher suspected of downloading illegal images of children?
  • Self-isolation – advice for schools and colleges dealing with outbreaks
  • Right to work checks after Brexit – don’t ask about settled status yet
  • Job Support Scheme – the details
  • October 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • October 2020: News in brief – Colleges

September 2020

  • Face masks in schools and colleges – the new rules
  • The real impact of coronavirus on the education sector
  • Updated FAQ’s about making furloughed staff redundant
  • Overclaimed furlough grants? If you don’t own up HMRC could name and shame you
  • Whistleblowing: why are claims increasing and what’s the best way to respond?
  • September 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • September 2020: News in brief – Colleges

August 2020

  • Holiday and quarantine: Your questions answered
  • FAQs: When can shielding employees return to work?
  • What are the employment implications of the Summer Statement?
  • Are antibody tests the key to reassuring staff that it's safe to return to work?
  • August 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • August 2020: News in brief – Colleges 

June 2020

  • Do you need to include BAME and obese workers in your return to work risk assessments?
  • How will the new flexible furlough scheme work?
  • Supreme Court to examine term-time holiday entitlement
  • June 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • June 2020: News in brief – Colleges

May 2020

  • Re-opening schools and colleges - employers' questions answered
  • Impact of coronavirus: early signs that employment disputes are increasing
  • Coronavirus: eight tips to support staff working from home
  • Furlough, agencies and public funding
  • May 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • May 2020: News in brief – Colleges

April 2020

  • Employment law changes from Monday 6 April 2020
  • Supreme Court restores sanity to the scope of vicarious liability
  • Workers affected by Coronavirus can carry over holiday
  • Coronavirus: new safeguarding rules for schools and colleges
  • Coronavirus: update on special educational needs
  • April 2020: News in brief – schools
  • April 2020: News in brief – colleges

March 2020

  • Coronavirus – your education HR questions answered
  • Dismissing staff on fixed term contracts: how easy is it?
  • The truth about employees who lie on their CV's
  • How (and why) you should proactively manage staff absence
  • March 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • March 2020: News in brief – Colleges

February 2020

  • New statutory rates that will apply from April 2020
  • Do you really need to suspend an employee?
  • New right for parents to take time off to grieve the death of a child
  • Will workers’ rights change after Brexit?
  • Post-Brexit UK immigration - what's changed?
  • February 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • February 2020: News in brief – Colleges

January 2020

  • Top five employment cases affecting the education sector in 2020
  • Employment law changes 2020: guide for schools and colleges
  • New Withdrawal Bill contains mechanism to ‘roll back’ employment rights
  • Strike ballots – why encouraging staff to complete ballots at work should be discouraged
  • January 2020: News in brief – Schools
  • January 2020: News in brief – Colleges

December 2019

  • Five employment cases that have affected the education sector in 2019
  • Settlement agreements: what's a reasonable amount to offer an employee to cover their legal advice?
  • Is asking to ‘clear your name’ a public interest disclosure capable of protection?
  • ‘Employment Law Firm of the Year’ at the Personnel Today awards
  • December 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • December 2019: News in brief – Colleges

November 2019

  • Why organisations should treat menopause as an employment issue
  • How to tell when a worker is under too much pressure
  • Supreme Court expands protection for whistle-blowers
  • November 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • November 2019: News in brief – Colleges

October 2019

  • How do you show you have taken all reasonable steps to avoid workplace discrimination?
  • The right to work checks schools need to make in the event of a no-deal Brexit
  • Update: Brazel v The Harpur Trust
  • How should you react if an under-performing member of staff you want to dismiss raises whistleblowing allegations?
  • October 2019: News in brief

September 2019

  • Court of Appeal rule that employers can't pro rate the holiday of term time-only workers
  • FAQs: holiday entitlement and pay of term time and other part-year workers
  • Special Educational Needs update
  • Autistic job seeker with ‘hidden disability’ awarded £18,400 compensation
  • September 2019: News in brief

August 2019

  • Three reasons for including covert recordings in your list of behaviours for gross misconduct
  • Employer not liable for racist Facebook picture circulated by a member of staff
  • Ten tips for avoiding employment tribunal claims
  • Will schools and colleges soon have to advertise all jobs as flexible?
  • August 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • August 2019: News in brief – Colleges

July 2019

  • Court of Appeal rules that schools and colleges can speak directly to staff if negotiations have broken down
  • Knowledge and disability: what do you know and when did you find out?
  • Employment FAQs
  • New case indicates that holiday pay claims can go back to 1998
  • July 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • July 2019: News in brief – Colleges

June 2019

  • How do you manage an "unmanageable" employee?
  • What would you do if an employee tweeted *that* royal baby picture?
  • European court tells employers to properly measure the length of time their staff are working
  • Employee awarded over £16k for injury to their feelings after 'one off' act of discrimination
  • June 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • June 2019: News in brief – Colleges

May 2019

  • Do your staff realise they can be prosecuted for unlawfully accessing your data?
  • Do you have to pay staff for doing "a bit extra" before or after work?
  • Should you allow staff to record disciplinary and grievance hearings?
  • Home Office publishes "right to work checks" that will apply post Brexit
  • May 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • May 2019: News in brief – Colleges

April 2019

  • When can you lawfully suspend a member of staff?
  • Updated Green Book recommends changes to Term Time Only holiday accrual – Schools
  • What’s the best way to communicate with a woman on maternity leave?
  • FAQs about redundancy
  • Have you considered taking positive action to increase the diversity of your workforce? – Colleges
  • April 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • April 2019: News in brief – Colleges

March 2019

  • Ten top tips for dealing with absent staff
  • “Where’s my personal data?” Responding to subject access requests under GDPR
  • Secretary aged 88 oldest person to win age discrimination claim
  • When should you involve occupational health?
  • March 2019: News in brief – Schools
  • March 2019: News in brief – Colleges

February 2019

  • Special Education Needs update for schools and colleges
  • Gender pay gap: What will you say if your figures haven't improved?
  • Do your job ads say you're "happy to talk about flexibility"?
  • Is this sexual harassment?
  • February 2019 – News in brief

January 2019

  • Employment legislation tracker 2019: Public Sector
  • FAQs: Post Brexit recruitment of EU citizens
  • Are employees entitled to a written statement if they work for less than two months?
  • Bus driver sacked after failing a drugs test awarded £37,639.32
  • January 2019 – News in brief

December 2018

  • Employer liable for actions of MD that took place three hours after the end of its Christmas party
  • Greenwich council expected to settle term time holiday pay claims for £3.7 million
  • Pilot with a fear of flying unfairly dismissed
  • Is the government going to reintroduce Employment Tribunal fees?
  • December 2018: Schools news in brief
  • December 2018: Colleges news in brief

November 2018

  • Special Educational Needs update for schools and colleges
  • New Government guidance makes it tougher to remove exam results from performance data
  • Employee called a "fat ginger pikey" loses harassment case
  • Morrisons vicariously liable for deliberate data breach by "rogue" employee
  • News in brief – November 2018

October 2018

  • Top five employment cases that will affect the education sector over 2018/19 academic year
  • Employee who wrote “Please accept one month’s notice” did not resign
  • What questions shouldn't you ask at an interview?
  • Can you only hold a disciplinary hearing during an employee's normal working hours?
  • October 2018: Schools news in brief
  • October 2018: Colleges news in brief

July 2018

  • What happens to the employment relationship where an employee successfully appeals against their dismissal?
  • You must let your employee appeal against their dismissal even if they have not provided evidence they can continue to work in the UK
  • FAQs: Statutory sick pay
  • “Sleep-in” workers are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage whilst they are asleep
  • July 2018: Schools news in brief
  • July 2018: Colleges news in brief

June 2018

  • Risk assessments needed for all breastfeeding mothers
  • Update on trade union facility time off reporting
  • FAQs: Apprentices
  • Can zero hours workers compare contracts with full-time workers?
  • Supreme Court determines the employment status of plumbers
  • Get ready for Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB)
  • June 2018: Schools news in brief 
  • June 2018: Colleges news in brief

May 2018

  • Supreme Court implies new term in all contracts of employment
  • FAQs: Staff references
  • Charity governance in independent schools
  • May 2018: Schools news in brief
  • May 2018: Colleges news in brief

April 2018

  • Supreme Court confirms fair dismissal of headteacher who failed to disclose her friendship with a convicted paedophile
  • Employers can pay women taking maternity leave more than men taking shared parental leave – for at least 14 weeks
  • Deductions of Contributions at Source (DOCAS) Regulations delayed
  • Discrimination: injury to feelings awards just got more expensive
  • April 2018: Schools news in brief
  • April 2018: Colleges news in brief

March 2018 

  •  FAQs: Gender pay gap reporting
  • The Technical and Further Education Act 2017: Who’d be a governor? 
  • Term-time workers: Capping holiday pay at 12.07% disadvantages part-time workers 
  • Transgender employee awarded almost £47,500 compensation against Primark  
  • Legislative changes taking effect in March and April 2018 
  • March 2018: Schools news in brief  
  • March 2018: Colleges news in brief  

February 2018

  • Myth: A teacher or lecturer engaged on a fixed-term contract cannot claim unfair dismissal if their contract is not renewed on expiry
  • FAQs: Engaging and retaining EU staff post-Brexit
  • Impact of GDPR on Education
  • Victorian Property ‘Rights of Reverter’ Can Expose Educational Establishments to Financial Claims
  • Legislation tracker – 2018
  • Impact of GDPR on Education
  • February 2018: Schools news in brief 
  • February 2018: Colleges news in brief

Autumn Term 2017

  • 10 November 2017 - GDPR for schools and colleges
  • 27 October 2017 - How to fairly manage staff absence
  • 13 October 2017 - New exclusions guidance - what's changed?
  • 29 September 2017 - Recruitment
  • 11 September 2017 - Best practice: suspending an employee

Summer Term 2017

  • 21 April 2017 - What are the key data protection changes that will affect schools?
  • 5 May 2017 - The Apprenticeship Levy
  • 19 May 2017 - Disciplinary investigations – our guide to avoiding common pitfalls
  • 2 June 2017 - Providing staff references
  • 30 June 2017 - Do your teaching and support staff understand what they can/can’t say on social media?
  • 14 July 2017 - Educating children on "sexting"

Spring Term 2017

  • 3 February 2017 - Legal responsibilities of academy heads
  • 17 February 2017 - Dealing with requests from separating parents
  • 3 March 2017 - How far does your school have to go to accommodate the religious beliefs of your staff?
  • 17 March 2017 -  April 2017 changes to the IR35 treatment of personal service company workers and the effects on the Education sector
  • 31 March 2017 - How to lawfully exclude a child from school

Summer 2016 - Download PDF

  • What is in force or expected to come into force this year?
  • News in brief
  • Educating children about sexting
  • Is the academisation of all schools still on the cards despite the apparent U turn
  • Spotlight on: The additional legal responsibilities owed by academy head teachers
  • How to celebrate diversity and build an inclusive environment in your school
  • My school story: Ian Kelsey
  • Pupil attainment gap in Northern England needs to be tackled for Northern Powerhouse Success
  • Helping children with autism reach their full potential
  • Think it Create it: A new approach to delivering the computing curriculum
  • Taxation considerations for educational establishments providing living accommodation - Part 2
  • >Can Acivico Energy cut your school energy costs?
  • Case law update
  • ACAS Schools Forum

Spring 2016

  • Birmingham charity of the year 2016
  • Introducing The Leeds Rhinos Foundation charity
  • Leeds charity of the year 2016
  • Legislation & regulation tracker: what does 2016 have in store?
  • News in brief
  • Do you use human resources professional to help with staff discipline?
  • Apprenticeship levy: does your wage bill exceed £3 million per year?
  • Spotlight on staff references
  • How do you enforce terms of a settlement agreement?
  • Tax considerations for schools providing living accommodation
  • My school story: Hannah Cockroft
  • Case law update

Autumn/Winter 2015

  • How far do schools have to go to accommodate the religious beliefs of their staff?
  • Attracting talent to your school
  • Holiday pay issues for schools – what you need to know
  • Does Big Brother surveillance have a place in schools?
  • My school story – Jamie Dunn, shortlisted for the Top 20 Young People in the World awards

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