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 [...]

If you are going to be in a court or tribunal hearing in the next few months, it is possible that it will be held over the Cloud Video Platform. This is particularly likely if it is not too [...]

How should employers bring their employees out of home working and back into the workplace post-lockdown? In July the UK Prime Minister talked about a ‘significant return to normality’ and coming [...]

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published an analysis that shows that we are now in recession. The UK economy shrank 20.4% between April and June when compared with the first three [...]