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24 February 2025
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24 January 2025
Many commentators have focused on extensive proposals to improve employee rights within The Employment Rights Bill (the Bill). However, tucked away in the Bill are a number of proposals that may not be as publicly provocative but nevertheless are going to have an impact on public sector employers. Currently, the TUPE regulations act to “lift…
Read more6 January 2025
Under section 47(B) Employment Rights Act, workers have legal protection from being subject to a detriment or dismissed because they have made specific disclosures of wrongdoing (whistleblowers) Until this case, the term ‘worker’ included all individuals paid for their service to the organisation but excluded volunteers and self-employed contractors. Case background During his time as…
Read more18 July 2024
The King’s Speech on Wednesday, 17 July, launched the plans for the new Labour Government. Whilst there is quite a lot of information to unpack in the government’s plans, David Leach lifts the lid on what to expect from an employment law perspective. Labour set out their proposals in their election manifesto, so a number…
Read more5 July 2024
With the rules on Flexible Working having changed on 6 April 2024, the remote vs office-based working debate, which has been the subject of several workplace disputes and tribunal claims since the Covid-19 pandemic shows no sign of abating. It is therefore important that employers are familiar with the changes that have come into force…
Read more29 January 2024
In what continues to be a “new year, new employment rights” theme, the government has published another set of regulations that will impact employers. The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 amends the rights for paternity leave for employees expecting babies born (or placed for adoption) on or after 6 April 2024. The current position is…
Read more5 January 2024
In June 2023, we discussed a number of Bills and Acts that were of key interest to employment law practitioners, HR departments and employers as a whole. In what seems like an early Christmas present from the government, the regulations are being published at breakneck speed to augment and expand on the Acts. We have…
Read more4 January 2024
We have had a welcome injection of interest in Employment law, with draft regulations being laid before Parliament on changes to the Equality Act, welcome action on holiday pay, which may be the biggest shakeup of the Working Time Regulations since they were introduced some 25 years ago and also consideration of the TUPE regs….
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