Top 10 Tips for Employers on the Employment Rights Act 2025 Reforms
Have you made the changes you need to comply with the reforms already in force? The Employment Rights Act 2025 is the most significant shake-up of employment law in decades, which is currently being implemented in phases. A first wave of changes is already in force (April 2026), with further major reforms expected from October 2026 and into...
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Top Tips for Employers Within the Manufacturing Sector
Challenges within the manufacturing sector Off the back of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Brexit, the manufacturing sector is currently facing immense challenges, including recruitment and resource shortages. Manufacturing businesses rely on seamless supply and customer chains. From an employment law point of view, employers in the sector must...
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National Minimum Wage: Trial Periods and Pre-employment Training
In August 2021, the Government reintroduced its ‘name and shame’ list of employers that failed to pay their employees the national minimum wage. The August list identified 191 employers that had collectively underpaid over 34,000 workers between 2011 and 2018. National Minimum Wage Breaches Whilst the most common NMW breaches relate to deductions...
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Redundancy Part 3: The Consultation Process
In parts one ( Redundancy Part 1: A Guide for Employers ) and two ( Redundancy Part 2: Pooling and Selection ) of this series, we have explored what qualifies as a redundancy situation, how an employer should prepare redundancy proposals and the correct approach to pooling and selection. In this article, we answer the key questions employers ask...
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Flexible Working Requests - Top Tips For Employers
Tips For Employers on Dealing with Flexible Working Requests In the employment video guide, we will be providing you with our top tips for dealing with a flexible working request from an employee. Jack Latham , an Associate within our Employment...
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Redundancy Part 2: Pooling and Selection
This blog follows on from the first blog in our series of redundancy blogs which provided guidance for employers on the redundancy process. Pooling and selection of employees that are impacted by the redundancy situation Last week, in the first part of this series on how to manage a redundancy process, we looked at what a redundancy situation is...
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Redundancy Part 1: A Guide for Employers
Guidance for employers on the redundancy process The impact of the pandemic on the economy is still being felt and understood. Despite positive recent signs in the UK employment market, there remains high levels of pessimism and uncertainty over jobs. An estimated one million workers remained on furlough at the end of the Government’s furlough...
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Top 10 Tips on How to Deal With Flexible Working Requests
Dealing with flexible working requests In August 2021, an Employment Tribunal awarded a Claimant nearly £185,000 as compensation for indirect sex discrimination after the Claimant's flexible working request on her return from maternity leave was refused without proper consideration. Given the potential repercussions for employers in getting this...
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Career-Long Losses Awarded in the Employment Tribunal
The EAT has upheld an ET’s decision to award career-long losses to an employee unable to work again due to treatment suffered by their employer. Background Mr Plaistow worked as a prison officer from 2003 until he was dismissed for gross misconduct in August 2016. In 2014, Mr Plaistow, at his request, transferred from HMP Feltham to HMP...
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Dress Code Discrimination in the Workplace
Is it discrimination to stop staff from wearing religious symbols and dress at work? The pandemic made most workplace dress codes redundant, as many staff swapped in-person meetings and business attire for video calls from the kitchen table in casual clothes. Dress codes exist to help an employer ensure that their employees wear appropriate...
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Top Tips for Employers on Casual Workers
Employers increasingly favour an agile and flexible workforce, using seasonal, casual or temporary workers to meet customer demand. Read our Top Tips for Employers to ensure legal compliance and avoid claims from casual workers. Casual Workers Employers increasingly favour an agile and flexible workforce in an economy facing continued...
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Data Protection for HR Teams - Top 10 Tips
What HR Teams Should Consider Regarding Data Protection? Tip 1 A fundamental principle of data protection is transparency. Ensure that your business has in place appropriate Privacy Notices for employees, workers, contractors and job candidates...
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Unfair Dismissal - Failure to Agree Contractual Changes
In the recent Employment Tribunal case of Khatun v Winn Solicitors Ltd, Ms Khatun was found to be unfairly dismissed following her refusal to accept contractual changes. The background Ms Khatun worked for Winn Solicitors (the Firm). Following a downturn in work because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Firm furloughed 50% of its staff. The...
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