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Mental health awareness week 2025
Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from Monday 12 – Sunday 18 May 2025. The theme, as set by the Mental Health Foundation, is “Community”.
Are you up to date with statutory payments?
National minimum wage and statutory payments increased this month, meaning employers need to check that they are complying with the statutory provisions and paying their workers the correct amount in line with the following increases.
Neonatal Care Leave – What do employers need to know?
The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 will be introduced in England, Wales and Scotland from 6 April 2025 which has been developed to support parents of babies who require neonatal care.
How to prepare for the new duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
On 26 October 2024 the law on sexual harassment changed to the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023. By law, employers will now need to take steps to prevent sexual harassment.
Labours Employment Rights Bill
The Labour Party's proposed Employment Rights Bill is set to considerably change the UK's employment landscape with ambitious aims to strengthen workers' rights, reshape employment status definitions and create a fairer working environment.
Hospitality businesses are facing a strict new set of regulations on how they handle tips and service charges from 1st October
Ever since media stories emerged in 2015 suggesting that some restaurant chains were making deductions from tips before passing them on to their staff, there has been political pressure to clarify the whole tipping and service charge situation.
Don’t forget that seasonal workers need written employment terms too
Providing written terms and conditions - including to seasonal staff - is not just a legal obligation, but hugely beneficial.
Introduction of carers leave
From 6th April Employees will have the statutory right to request 5 working days unpaid leave in any 12-month rolling period.
The importance of investigations in disciplinary and grievance procedures
As an employer you have a responsibility to your employees to ensure that you follow a fair and robust process, especially when it comes to disciplinary and grievances
The four day week: it’s not so much a question of productivity, but of a culture of respect
A four day working week can be a great motivator for staff and doesn’t have to mean a drop in productivity, says Gemma Chapman of Lovewell Blake. But making it work is not just an organisational challenge, but a cultural one as well.
Uber case should be ‘wake-up call’ for businesses using independent contractors, says leading HR expert
Businesses which use independent contractors as part of their workforce need to conduct an urgent review of whether those contractors should be regarded as employed workers, following a landmark Supreme Court judgement last week, according to a leading East Anglian HR expert.
What should you consider when it comes to transgender members of the workforce?
We are living in an ever-diverse world and increasingly seeing this diversity filter in to the workplace