The use of face masks relating to coronavirus is a public health protection measure largely intended to help protect others and the wearer. It’s been a legal requirement for employees in [...]

Many of you will already be experienced in handling grievances, but when is a grievance a protected disclosure? It’s best to consider this question at the outset, as there is no minimum period of [...]

Living in a multicultural UK society it seems incomprehensible that someone’s race or ethnicity is still an issue.  We have been living in a multicultural society for hundreds of years now. If a [...]

    Minimum wage pay rates are reviewed each year by the Low Pay Commission and increase on the 1st April each year. For all of you employees earning ‘minimum wage’ this is [...]

Slavery isn’t really a big issue in the UK is it? A common misconception here in the UK is that ‘modern slavery’ doesn’t really exist, or if it does then it relates only to a small number of [...]

  In March 2020’s first lockdown, the government called upon business to enable employees to work from home. In the following months, guidance changed a number of times. This article [...]

The UK has finally left the EU, the transition period has been and gone and we have a trade agreement in place.  But what is next in employment law?  There are bound to be changes, but what could [...]

On 31st October 2020 the Prime Minister announced new financial support measures for the next period of lockdown.  New restrictions were also announced in an attempt to curb the spread of [...]

  So many employers have made good use of financial support available during the pandemic.  The nature of this support is changing at the end of this month (October 2020). The Coronavirus [...]

What does Neurodiversity mean?  Neurodiversity refers to the different ways the brain functions – how it learns, works, processes and interprets information.  Forms of [...]