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Our monthly Employment Law Update explores the latest developments in employment law and looks at the issues that matter to employers.

January 2023

  • Employment law changes 2023: guide for HR and line managers
  • The top five employment cases that will shape 2023
  • New plans will allow employers to pro-rate holiday for term-time and casual workers
  • Is an employee’s support of a particular football club a protected belief under the Equality Act?
  • January 2023 news in brief

December 2022

  • Five reasons to remind your staff to behave during the festivities
  • Why you should include micro-aggression in your diversity and equality training (and how to do it)
  • Can you refuse to employ someone because they have visible tattoos?
  • Recruitment: should the role of a ‘period dignity officer’ go to a woman?
  • Podcast: The right to request flexible working from day one
  • December 2022 news in brief

November 2022

  • Pregnant women and new parents to get added protection against being made redundant
  • World cup 2022: eight workplace issues HR need to be aware of
  • Do you need to introduce an IVF policy?
  • IR35: HMRC wins ‘kickabout’ in Court of Appeal
  • Strikes: government set to introduce minimum transport service levels to ensure people can get to work and children to school
  • November 2022 news in brief

October 2022

  • 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)
  • Can employers insist that staff use other people's preferred pronouns?
  • Menopause: new report urges NHS to provide health checks for women
  • Acas publishes new guidance on staff suspensions
  • Employment Talk: The HR Issues Affecting You podcast 
  • October 2022 news in brief

September 2022

  • Queen’s death: employers guide to the bank holiday
  • Our holiday pay webinar: more questions answered
  • CEO who lied about his qualifications and experience forced to repay some of his earnings
  • Breastfeeding: what are an employer’s legal responsibilities?
  • 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 and other part-year 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
  • What can employers learn from the latest case on gender-critical discrimination?
  • Employment legislation update
  • Airport chaos: what options do employers have if holiday plans go awry?
  • August 2022 news in brief

July 2022

  • Government set to introduce new legislation to allow temporary agency staff to cover striking workers
  • Long COVID and disability: what HR need to know
  • Unlawful inducement: how to stay on the right side of the law
  • Feeling hot, hot, hot: what’s the maximum legal temperature staff can work in?
  • Managing shift workers: how to avoid legal pitfalls
  • July 2022 news in brief

June 2022

  • The bald truth: can making a derogatory remark about a man’s lack of hair amount to harassment related to sex?
  • Do you need to introduce a period policy?
  • Employee nicknamed “half-dead Dave” awarded £13,000 for injury to his feelings
  • How to upskill line managers on employment law 
  • June 2022 news in brief

May 2022

  • Five free resources to help your organisation support peri-menopausal 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
  • Queen’s speech 2022: what are the implications for employment law?
  • May 2022 news in brief

April 2022

  • New guidance on self-isolation and reducing the spread of COVID-19
  • New report reveals worrying lack of menopause action in the workplace
  • Computer says no: unpicking the employment risks of AI
  • Government rejects compulsory ethnic pay gap reporting
  • April 2022 news in brief

March 2022

  • Gender pay gap bot exposes gap between reality and rhetoric
  • End of COVID-19 rules: what employers need to know
  • New public health advice for people with COVID-19 and their contacts
  • What's the best way to deal with a serial complainer?
  • Are you liable for practical jokes that go wrong?
  • March 2022 news in brief

February 2022

  • Court of Appeal makes it harder for employers to defeat holiday pay claims
  • Boss harassed sales assistant by asking if she was menopausal
  • The end of Plan B: what does living with COVID-19 mean for employers?
  • Can you dismiss an employee for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19?
  • COVID-19: employee who was sacked after raising health and safety concerns was protected under whistleblowing legislation
  • February 2022 news in brief

January 2022

  • Employment law changes 2022: guide for businesses 
  • Ten most important employment law cases of 2021
  • Can you reduce contractual sick pay for unvaccinated members of staff?
  • Changes in rules on self-isolation: employers questions answered
  • 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

  • Omicron: new advice on working from home
  • The Omicron variant: employers questions answered
  • Knowledge and disability: what should you do if you find out someone is disabled after you've dismissed them?
  • Changing terms and conditions of employment: Acas provides new guidance
  • Court of Appeal examines employment status and substitution clauses in another 'gig' case
  • December 2021 news in brief

November 2021

  • Employment contract wording error about PHI benefits costs employer over £29,000
  • 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
  • Supreme Court applies brakes to compensation claims for data breaches
  • November 2021 news in brief

October 2021

  • Government starts consultation on making flexible working the default position
  • Employer loses discrimination claim after sacking two male directors to reduce its gender pay gap
  • Do you have to give an employee the opportunity to appeal against their dismissal if they are made redundant?
  • Is the government going to compel large employers to report on their ethnic pay gaps?
  • October 2021 news in brief

September 2021

  • Reasonable adjustments: do you have to maintain the pay rate of a disabled employee who has moved to a lower paid job?
  • Significant increase in the number of women bringing claims linked to the menopause
  • Government's vision to transform disabled peoples' working lives: will anything change?
  • Labour Party announce plans to improve employment protection for workers (if it gets into power)
  • September 2021 news in brief

August 2021

  • Self-isolation, COVID-19 vaccinations and GDPR: employers’ questions answered
  • Do you have to consider furlough as an alternative to redundancy? 
  • Tribunal says employers aren’t obliged to continue to furlough staff
  • Flexible working policies: indirect discrimination and the childcare disparity
  • New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment at work
  • New list ‘names and shames’ 191 employers underpaying staff the National Minimum Wage
  • August 2021 news in brief

July 2021

  • Legal requirement to wear masks, follow social distancing rules and work from home end on 19 July 2021
  • What should you do if you discover that an existing employee hasn't applied for settled or pre-settled status?
  • COVID-19: Employee who refused to return to work to protect his vulnerable father was unfairly dismissed
  • When trouble at work is brewing
  • Right to work checks - a trap for the unwary
  • July 2021 news in brief

June 2021

  • Twelve things to consider before you implement an agile/hybrid working policy
  • Employee who asked to be furloughed because of fears about COVID-19 was not unfairly dismissed
  • Sending a pregnant woman home during COVID-19 lockdown was not maternity discrimination
  • A belief that men and women can’t change their biological sex is protected under the Equality Act 2010
  • Right to work checks - a trap for the unwary
  • June 2021 news in brief

May 2021

  • Why you should treat menopause as a business issue 
  • Holidays abroad – your questions answered
  • Employee who refused to work from home because he believed his workplace posed a ‘serious and imminent’ danger loses unfair dismissal claim
  • EU settlement scheme: what options do your staff have if they miss the deadline?
  • Do home workers need a ‘right’ to disconnect?
  • 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
  • COVID-19: employee who refused to wear a mask was fairly dismissed
  • Another tribunal finds that menopausal symptoms amount to a disability
  • April 2021 news in brief

March 2021

  • Roadmap out of lockdown – implications for employers
  • Worker or self-employed contractor? Supreme Court clarifies law in landmark Uber case
  • Three reasons why you need a strategy to protect your staff against verbal abuse by customers
  • Can EU staff obtain settled status if they returned to their homeland during COVID-19?
  • March 2021 news in brief

February 2021

  • Changes to IR35 are coming - eight tips to help you prepare
  • Furlough: new rules for calculating the pay of variable hours' workers
  • Seven things to consider if your employee ants to work from home (and home is outside the UK)
  • How often do you train your staff on equality and discrimination
  • February 2021 news in brief

January 2021

  • Employment law changes 2021: guide for businesses
  • Should you furlough staff who are having to home school their children?
  • No vaccine, no job? Can you insist your staff take the COVID-19 vaccine?
  • Long COVID – implications for employers
  • News in brief

December 2020

  • Clinically extremely vulnerable people can return to work
  • Furlough fraud – government clarifies how ‘naming and shaming’ will work
  • Bullying: should you excuse the behaviour of someone who says they didn’t mean to upset colleagues?
  • The top five employment cases that will shape 2021
  • News in brief

October 2020 

  • New guidance on the Job Support ‘open’ and ‘closed’ schemes
  • Why did an employment tribunal order an ex-employee to pay £432,000 towards his employer’s costs?
  • Right to work checks post Brexit
  • Employee privacy in the spotlight
  • News in brief

September 2020

  • Job Support Scheme – the details
  • Returning to work: Government moves the goalposts again
  • Coronavirus: FAQs about self-isolation, test and trace, and statutory sick pay
  • New 'Kickstart' scheme open to employers
  • News in brief

August 2020

  • Quarantine – how to deal with staff returning from holidays abroad
  • Updated FAQs 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?
  • News in brief

July 2020

  • What are the employment implications of the Summer Statement?
  • FAQs: when can employees who are shielding return to work?
  • Coronavirus: tips to help staff work and care for their children
  • Are antibody tests the key to reassuring staff that’s it’s safe to return to work?
  • News in brief

June 2020

  • New flexible furlough scheme guidance published
  • Do you need to include BAME and obese workers in your return–to-work risk assessments?
  • Post-travel quarantine rules: employers’ questions answered
  • Furlough fraud – have your staff been working in breach of the rules?
  • News in brief

May 2020

  • Starting the return to work
  • Impact of coronavirus: early signs that employment disputes are increasing
  • FAQs: Coronavirus: eight tips to support staff working from home
  • FAQs: Furloughed staff and redundancy
  • News in brief

April 2020

  • Employment law changes in force from 6 April 2020
  • Supreme Court restores sanity to the scope of vicarious liability
  • Workers affected by coronavirus can carry over holiday into the next two leave years
  • Directors rights and responsibilities under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  • New in brief

March 2020 

  • Coronavirus: your top 10 HR questions answered
  • The new immigration rules that will apply from 2021
  • How thorough are your pre-employment checks? 
  • How much notice do you have to give an employee on a fixed-term contract?
  • News in brief

February 2020

  • Is your employee sick or skiving?
  • New right for parents to take time off to grieve the death of a child
  • Do you really need to suspend an employee?
  • Will workers’ rights change after Brexit?
  • Post-Brexit UK immigration – what's changed?
  • News in brief

January 2020

  • Top employment cases that will shape 2020
  • Employment law changes 2020: guide for businesses
  • New Withdrawal Bill contains mechanism to ‘roll back’ employment rights
  • Strike ballots – Court of Appeal rules that a union’s actions breached ballot rules
  • News in brief

December 2019

  • Is asking to ‘clear your name’ a public interest disclosure capable of protection?
  • Worried about employee theft? European Court of Human Rights sets out guidelines on covert surveillance
  • You can't rely on a decision-maker's ignorance to defeat a whistleblowing claim
  • ‘Employment Law Firm of the Year’ at the Personnel Today awards
  • News in brief

November 2019

  • Looking after the mental health of your staff
  • Does your organisation have a strategy to support menopausal staff?
  • Settlement agreements: what's a reasonable amount to offer an employee to cover their legal advice?
  • Supreme Court expands protection for whistle-blowers
  • Changes to IR35 are coming – will they affect your business?
  • News in brief

October 2019

  • How do you show you've taken all reasonable steps to avoid workplace discrimination?
  • How should you react if an under-performing member of staff you want to dismiss raises whistleblowing allegations?
  • Do your staff take appropriate rest breaks?
  • Betfred criticised for failing to include overtime in holiday pay
  • News in brief

September 2019

  • Court of Appeal rule that employers can't pro-rate holiday of term time only workers
  • FAQs: holiday entitlement and pay of term-time and other part-year workers
  • What right to work checks will you need to make if there's a no-deal Brexit?
  • Can a foreign national bring an employment claim if their right to work in the UK has expired?
  • News in brief

August 2019

  • Autistic job seeker with 'hidden disability' awarded £18,400 compensation
  • Three reasons for including 'covert recordings' in your list of behaviours likely to amount to gross misconduct
  • Employer not liable for racist Facebook picture circulated by a member of staff
  • Will employers be compelled to advertise all jobs as flexible?
  • News in Brief

July 2019

  • New case indicates that holiday pay claims can go back to 1998
  • Knowledge and disability: what do you know and when did you find out?
  • Supreme Court applies ‘blue pencil’ to rescue an otherwise unenforceable restrictive covenant
  • Court of Appeal rules that businesses can speak directly to staff if negotiations have broken down
  • News in brief

June 2019

  • How do you manage an ‘unmanageable’ employee?
  • What would your business do if an employee tweeted *that* royal baby picture?
  • Do you know how many extra hours your staff are working?
  • Employee awarded over £16k for injury to their feelings after ‘one off’ act of discrimination
  • News in brief

May 2019

  • Do you have to pay staff for doing "a bit extra" before or after work?
  • Company directors personally liable for employment claims
  • Should you allow staff to record disciplinary and grievance hearings?
  • Do you need a policy on periods? 
  • News in brief

April 2019

  • Do your staff realise they can be prosecuted for unlawfully accessing your data?
  • How should you communicate with a woman on maternity leave?
  • When can you lawfully suspend a member of staff?
  • Police force discriminated against white heterosexual male
  • News in Brief

March 2019

  • 10 tips for dealing with absent staff
  • Does a rest break have to be continuous?
  • No deal Brexit: Five things for business travellers to consider
  • Redundancy FAQs
  • News in brief

February 2019 

  • Gender pay gap: What will you say if your figures haven’t improved?
  • Is this sexual harassment?
  • Secretary aged 88 wins discrimination claim
  • When should you involve occupational health professionals?
  • News in brief

January 2019

  • Employment changes 2019: Guide for businesses
  • FAQ: Post-Brexit recruitment of EU citizens
  • Are employees entitled to a written statement if they work for less than two months?
  • Can you still include confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements?
  • News in brief

December 2018

  • Is your business liable for misconduct after the party is over?
  • How do you calculate holiday pay for workers wrongly treated as self-employed?
  • Pilot with a fear of flying unfairly dismissed
  • Bus driver sacked after failing a drugs test awarded £37,639.32
  • News in brief

November 2018

  • Employee called a "fat ginger pikey" loses harassment case
  • Employer vicariously liable for deliberate data breach by "rogue" employee
  • Holiday pay: If you don’t inform and encourage your staff to take holiday they can roll it over to another holiday year
  • £3,000 awarded to job applicant told he was "too old" to apply
  • News in brief

October 2018

  • Employee who wrote “Please accept one month’s notice” did not resign
  • Top employment cases that will shape 2018/19
  • Is your intern really volunteering?
  • Government pledge to end free movement "once and for all"
  • News in brief 

September 2018

  • Can you only hold a disciplinary hearing during an employee's normal working hours?
  • Can menopausal women bring discrimination claims?
  • What questions shouldn’t you ask at an interview?
  • Will Brexit affect workers’ rights?
  • News in brief

August 2018

  • Dress codes – is it fair to dismiss a man for having a “man bun”?
  • When do you have to postpone a disciplinary hearing?
  • Do you want to increase diversity in your organisation?    
  • News in brief

July 2018

  • What happens to the employment relationship where an employee successfully appeals against their dismissal?
  • NHS staff win right to claim six years underpaid holiday pay
  • FAQs: Statutory sick pay
  • “Sleep-in” workers are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage whilst they are asleep
  • You must let your employee appeal against their dismissal even if they have not provided evidence they can continue to work in the UK
  • News in brief

June 2018

  • Supreme Court determines the employment status of plumbers
  • FAQs: Apprentices
  • Risk assessments needed for all breastfeeding mothers
  • Zero hours workers can compare contracts with full time workers
  • Get ready for Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB) 
  • News In brief

May 2018 

  • Supreme Court implies new term in all contracts of employment
  • Are you considering adopting an agile working environment? 
  • Myth: Employers can choose who to make redundant by operating a last in, first out policy 
  • FAQs: Recruiting staff from outside the EU
  • News in brief 

April 2018

  • Employers can pay women taking maternity leave more than men taking shared parental leave
  • Does your uniform policy comply with the National Minimum Wage Regulations?
  • Myth: Employers must consider "bumping" when making redundancies
  • Increase in discrimination injury to feelings awards from 6 April 2018
  • News in brief

March 2018

  • FAQs: Recruitment and interviews
  • Transgender employee awarded almost £47,500 compensation against Primark
  • Myth: Employers can make deductions from the wages of staff who make mistakes which cost them money
  • Employment Brief Alerts - March 2018
  • Legislation Tracker - 2018

February 2018

  • FAQs: Gender pay gap reporting
  • Mythbuster: It’s acceptable to ask a female candidate if she’s pregnant or has children in a job interview, as long as we ask men the same question?
  • Government responds to Taylor Review of modern working practices
  • 8 cases to watch out for in 2018
  • Brief Alerts

January 2018

  • FAQs: Engaging and retaining EU staff post Brexit
  • Myth: We can fairly dismiss an employee returning from maternity leave if our customers prefer the temporary replacement
  • PILONs and tax – all change
  • Investigating allegations of sexual misconduct
  • Will your gender pay gap report expose your organisation to criticism?
  • Brief alerts
  • Legislation Tracker

December 2017

  • Legislation Tracker
  • Mythbuster: An employee engaged on a fixed term contract cannot claim unfair dismissal simply because the contract is not renewed
  • FAQs: Part time workers
  • Holiday Pay: European Court of Justice ruling
  • Brief alerts

November 2017

  • Myth busting: You do not have to pay accrued holiday if you dismiss someone for gross misconduct
  • FAQs: GDPR and HR
  • Transgender Employees: Seven things employers need to know
  • New leave allowance on the cards for bereaved parents
  • Employment Tribunal fees: Government starts process of reimbursement

October 2017

  • Myth buster: You can dismiss someone without fear of it being an unfair dismissal provided they have less than two years' service
  • FAQs: Performance management
  • Increase in injury to feelings awards announced
  • Tribunal claims on the rise since abolition of fees
  • Unconscious bias in the workplace

September 2017

  • 2017/18 Timeline – what changes are in force or coming into force?
  • Best practice: suspending an employee
  • FAQs: Recruitment
  • Do your non-compete clauses need re-writing?
  • Myth buster: Employees must sign the contract for the terms to apply
  • GCSE grade change: A guide for employers

August 2017

  • Frequently asked questions: Employment Tribunal Fees
  • Myth buster: Employers can’t put a pregnant employee through a performance management procedure
  • Is your EU passport Brexit-proof?
  • Are sleep-in workers entitled to the National Minimum Wage for their whole shift, or just the time they are awake and carrying out duties?
  • GDPR - Guidance for Employers
  • Case Law Round Up
  • Binding decision: Voluntary overtime must be included in holiday pay
  • Frequently asked questions about Employment Tribunal Fees

July 2017

  • Myth buster: There is no guaranteed way to prevent our staff from competing against us after they leave
  • Frequently asked questions: Volunteers
  • Gig economy workers may be able to claim holiday pay going back years
  • Queen’s Speech indicates that employment law reforms are low on the Government’s agenda
  • Beware! The Pensions Regulator is out to get employers ignoring their auto-enrolment duties

June 2017

  • Myth busters: Workers do not accrue holiday during long term sickness
  • Frequently asked questions: Grievances
  • At last some good news for employers on holiday pay
  • Top 5 cases to look out for in 2017
  • The GDPR race is on and you need to start training now

May 2017

  • Legislation Tracker - What’s in force or coming up in May and June 2017?
  • How are you going to present your gender pay gap figures?
  • Myth busters: We can rely on contractual mobility clauses in our employees’ contracts of employment to avoid making redundancy payments.
  • Frequently asked questions: Investigations
  • The Great Divorce - Brexit, workers rights and the Great Repeal Bill
  • What have we learned about early conciliation?

April 2017

  • Myth busters: Employees can say what they like about the company and their boss on social media because of freedom of speech
  • Frequently asked questions: Casual staff and zero hour contracts
  • Apprenticeship Levy
  • Is there a gender pay gap in your organisation?
  • Legislation tracker – what’s coming up in March and April 2017?

March 2017

  • Frequently Asked Question’s: Disciplining staff
  • Are Employment Tribunal fees here to stay?
  • End of the road for British Gas’s appeal about holiday pay and commission payments
  • Judicial assessment
  • Myth Busters: Employers can engage staff on a self employed basis if they have a written agreement in place

February 2017

  • April 2017 tax changes to affect the supply of Personal Service Company (PSC) workers

January 2017

  • Legislation Tracker 2017
  • Frequently Asked Questions...recruitment
  • Myth Busters - Employees cannot be dismissed during their probationary period
  • Is there a gender pay gap anywhere in your organisation?
  • Top 5 cases to look out for in 2017

September 2016

  • Legislation Tracker
  • Frequently Asked Questions... termination of employment
  • Holiday Pay – Will Brexit Stop the Juggernaut?
  • Myth Busters: Our staff cannot use a conversation we have with them in evidence against us provided it is held “off the record” or “without prejudice”
  • Important Changes to the Tax Treatment of Termination Payments, Salary Sacrifice and Benefits in Kind
  • Top Five Cases to Look Out For 

June 2016

  • Frequently asked questions... Disability in the workplace
  • Immigration Act 2016
  • Government warns businesses not to offset costs of paying for £7.20 NLW
  • Case Tracker - Employment Law appeals in 2016
  • Restrictive Covenants in contracts of employment
  • Myth Busters : A worker can only be accompanied by a trade union official at a disciplinary or grievance hearing if the employer recognises the union

April 2016

  • Employment tracker: changes coming into force in April 2016
  • Frequently asked questions... staff references
  • Myth busters : Employees have the right to take off bank holidays or be paid overtime for working them
  • Will the introduction of the National Living Wage affect your business?
  • The employment implications of the March budget

February 2016

  • Frequently asked question... managing absence
  • Myth busters : You can’t change the terms and conditions of a transferred employee under TUPE
  • What will employment laws look like if we exit the EU?
  • Legislation Tracker

November 2015

  • Frequently asked questions … holidays
  • Zero hours ‘workers’ gain unfair dismissal rights
  • Myth busters: Part time workers have fewer legal rights than full time workers
  • Is there a gender pay gap anywhere in your organisation?

September 2015

  • Frequently asked questions … changing terms and conditions
  • Myth buster: Employers do not have to follow a strict procedure before sacking an employee for gross misconduct.
  • Did you know that the Government has announced that it wants to “simplify” the tax and national insurance treatment of termination payments?
  • Top 5 cases to look out for
  • What employment law changes are coming up in October 2015?

July 2015

  • Mythbuster – it is difficult to sack an underperforming employee?
  • Do sick workers have the right to carry over accrued leave indefinitely?
  • Is travelling to and from work likely to count as working time?
  • Employment tribunals get tough on holiday pay claims
  • Rebranded NMW set to increase in April

June 2015

  • Myth busting - Employers cannot lawfully dismiss if their employee is genuinely ill
  • Decisions about the complex ACAS ‘stop the clock’ provisions appear to favour claimants
  • Whistle-blowing - Public interest requirement does not appear to be a difficult hurdle to clear
  • Ban on some zero hours contracts comes into force
  • Queen’s Speech and the Conservative employment agenda

April 2015

  • News in Brief
  • 2015 Employment Law Timeline
  • What has to be included in holiday pay?
  • The business guide to the use of social media
  • Will the Fit for Work Service reduce long term absence?
  • Holiday pay update: Commission case clears first hurdle
  • Employers can always pay the first £30,000 of any severance payment tax free
  • Advocate General’s opinion offers hope to large employers making redundancies
  • Are zero hours contracts likely to be banned soon?
  • What are the key employment cases to look out for in 2015?
  • Have you noticed a reduction in Government generated ‘red tape’?

Winter 2014

  • What should be included in holiday pay?
  • Myth busting - Employers have to accommodate all religious sensibilities and beliefs
  • Is your organisation ready for shared parental leave and pay?
  • Do the holiday pay decisions on overtime affect your pension scheme?
  • Auto-enrolment – getting it wrong can cost businesses up to £10,000 per day

Summer 2014

  • How should you calculate holiday pay?
  • Employment changes in 2014
  • Myth busting: Employers must provide exiting staff with a reference 
  • Preparing for an employment tribunal hearing
  • The future of zero hours contracts
  • New crackdown on employing illegal migrant workers
  • Myth busting: you can vary an employment contract by giving notice
  • Myth-busting: an employee’s entitlement to notice is based on how often they are paid

Spring 2014

  • Employment changes in 2014
  • Myth busting: an employer has to accept an employee’s resignation before it will take effect
  • Financial penalties for employers – is your business at risk?
  • Budget 2014: What are the key pension changes?
  • Is it worth participating in ACAS Early Conciliation?
  • Changes to the right to request flexible working - do you need to change your policy?
  • The UK’s laws on industrial action need an urgent rethink
  • TUPE changes - a summary
  • Changes to the Lifetime Allowance
  • Myth-busting: Employers do not need to do pre-employment immigration checks on British or EU recruits

Winter 2013

  • 2014 Employment Law timeline
  • Myth busting: parents have the right to work part-time
  • Myth busting: you can't make a woman on maternity leave redundant
  • TUPE – is this the next generation?
  • Are you going to use settlement discussions to exit staff?
  • Are fees deterring employers from bringing employment claims?
  • TUPE changes may be in force as early as 1 January 2014
  • Leverage: a dangerous and unpredictable approach to industrial action?
  • Defined contribution pension code of practice comes into force
  • Proposed cap on pension changes - do you need to review your defined contribution schemes?

Summer 2013

  • How ready are SME’s for auto enrolment?
  • Redundancies – reversed Woolworths decision will require more employers to engage in collective consultation
  • If auto enrolment is a problem is salary sacrifice part of the solution?
  • Myth busting - In order to dismiss an employee, you must follow procedure
  • Myth busting - It is not possible to retire employees anymore 
  • Social media in the workplace – top 5 problems
  • Whistleblowing changes - employers beware
  • Business costs of auto enrolment set to rise

Spring 2013

  • Why changes to the state pension will impact on your business
  • Is your business thinking of making redundancies this year? 
  • DWP consults on improvements to Auto Enrolment 
  • How to stop former employees competing against you  
  • Will settlement discussions really make it easier for employers to dismiss staff? 
  • TUPE consultation – will the new Regulations be fit for purpose?

Winter 2012

  • Early retirement, the “Pensions Exception” – TUPE implications for private sector schemes 
  • Is the government on a mission to reduce unfair dismissal rights?
  • Owner-employee contracts are unnecessary 
  • Top tips for dealing with sickness absence and annual leave 

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