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Anti-Strike Laws | Employment Law Update Kendal Hulme, our Head of Operations, provides a legal update on the proposed anti-s ...

U-Turn in Annual Leave Calculation You may have read our blog in August 2022 where we discussed the shock Supreme Court rulin ...

Managing sickness during the Cold and Flu season In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Louise Angell explores managing sickn ...

Why should employers invest more in Learning & Development? In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Claire McGuinness disc ...

Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) In this article, Health and Safety expert, Adam Williams discusses Seasonal Affect ...

Flexible Working Requests to be a day-one right | Employment Law Update Kendal Hulme, our Head of Operations, provides a lega ...

Is a four-day week right for your business? In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Claire McGuinness discusses the benefits a ...

Managing workplace temperature | Health and Safety In this article, Health and Safety expert, Colin Jones discusses workplace ...

Work-Related Ill Health Statistics | Health and Safety In this article, Health and Safety expert, Adam Williams discusses the ...

The Importance of HR at a Work Christmas Party Senior HR Consultant, Louise Angell discusses the importance of HR during the ...

Is redundancy your best and only option? In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Louise Angell discusses whether redundancy is ...

World Cup 2022 – Guide for Employers Tackling HR Needs In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Claire McGuinness discusses the ...

Health and Safety Audit In this article, Health and Safety expert, Adam Williams explains what a health and safety audit is a ...

Autumn Statement | Employment Law Update Kendal Hulme, our Head of Operations, provides a legal update for November 2022. She ...

Bank holiday proclaimed in honour of the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III The government has announced that Monday ...

Carer's Leave and Enhanced Redundancy Protection | Employment Law Update In this article, Head of Operations, Kendal Hulme pr ...

Preventing Disability Discrimination in the Workplace In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Claire McGuinness, discusses dis ...

Quiet Quitting - What is it? In this article, Senior HR Consultant, Louise Angell, explores quiet quitting and offers advice ...

DSE Assessment including Homeworkers In this article, our expert Health & Safety Consultant, Colin Jones, discusses the D ...

Mini-Budget | Employment Law Update Kendal Hulme, our Head of Operations, provides a legal update for September 2022. She dis ...

Flexible Working Requests – are you prepared? In this article, our Senior HR Consultant, Louise Angell, discusses the influx ...

Managing allergies in the workplace | Health and Safety In this article, our expert H&S Consultant, Colin Jones, discusse ...

Sexual Harassment in the workplace - What can Employers do? In this article, our Senior HR Consultant, Claire McGuinness, dis ...

Employment Law Update | August 2022 Kendal Hulme, our Head of Operations, provides a employment law update for August 2022 in ...

Term-time only and other ‘part-year’ workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks holiday a year In this article, our Senior HR Consulta ...

Manual Handling | Health and Safety In this article, our Health and Safety expert, Colin Jones, discusses manual handling wit ...

First Aid Arrangements | Health and Safety In this article, our Health and Safety expert, Adam Williams, discusses first aid ...

Menopause Will Not Become a Protected Characteristic Our Head of Operations, Kendal Hulme has explored this recent decision a ...

An Employers Guide to Employment Tribunals Employment tribunals affect over 100,000 businesses in the UK every year, in this ...

Mental Health First Aid │ Health and Safety Our resident health and safety expert Adam Williams has discussed the importance ...

Health Surveillance | Health and Safety Are you keeping your employees safe? Our H&S consultant Colin Jones has offered g ...

Employment Law │ June 2022 Our Head of Operations, Kendal Hulme, discusses legal changes to strikes and fit notes in an Emplo ...

Legionella | Health and Safety Update In this article, our expert H&S consultant, Colin Jones, looks to discuss legionell ...

Are Changes Ahead as Businesses Trial Four Day Week? The world’s largest trial of its kind is taking place as thousands of UK ...

The Queen’s Speech – What Do Employers Need to Know? Kendal Hulme, our Head of Operations, looks to discuss the Queen's speec ...

Absence at Highest Rate Since 2010 Nearly 150 million days were lost due to absence in 2021 as experts offer advice to employ ...

First Aid In the Workplace │Health and Safety Update In this article, our expert H&S consultant, Colin Jones, looks to di ...

Employers Want Staff in Offices Despite Productivity Gains From Hybrid Work Employers have reported increased productivity fr ...

Business at Risk of Losing Young Employees A “sense of clarity and direction” is key to integrating and retaining young emplo ...

Employees Pushing for Remote Work to Save on Fuel Costs Almost half of UK employees are trying to persuade their managers to ...

Asbestos Awareness │Health and Safety Update In this month's Health and Safety update, Colin Jones looks to discuss the essen ...

Employment Law Update │April 2022 In this article James Mallon, our HR Business Partner provides us with an essential employm ...

Almost 50% of employees received no well-being check-in last year Calls were made for firms to do more for their staff after ...

Key Updates in the Employment Law Timetable for 2022 Our MD Victoria Brown offers an update on some key Employment Law change ...

Employment Law Update │ March 2022 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides an employment law update including cases a ...

Man Banned From Tribunal Service After Making Countless Vexatious Claims A serial claimant has received an infinite ban from ...

Managing Stress │ Health and Safety In this month’s update, our H&S Consultant, Colin Jones discusses the importance of m ...

Initiatives to Level Up Opportunities for Women Launched The government has announced plans to open opportunities to women in ...

Businesses Call to Scrap National Insurance Rise The government is facing increasing pressure to delay the upcoming National ...

What is England’s ‘Living with Covid’ plan? Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the "living with covid" plan that will ...

Employment Law Update │ February 2022 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, provides an employment law update for February, ...

Firms Told to "Work Even Harder" as Vacancies Rise Employers looking to draw in new talent have been warned they will need to ...

Are Hybrid Work Models Still Working? │ Health and Safety In this month’s Health and Safety update, our H&S Consultant, C ...

Plan B Restrictions to end in England On 19 January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the end of Plan B restrictions in ...

Legal Risks of Reducing Sick Pay for the Unvaccinated There have been multiple reports of employers limiting the&nb ...

Employment Law Update | January 2022 James Mallon, our HR Business Partner, has provided us with an Employment Law Update for ...

Health and Safety and Why We Need It In this month’s Health and Safety update, our H&S Consultant, Colin Jones discussed ...

Sick Pay for Unvaccinated Employees As coronavirus restrictions begin to ease for those who are vaccinated, some employers ar ...

Covid-19 Restrictions Update The Government has started the New Year with a review of the current situation regarding Covid-1 ...

What are the Biggest HR Obstacles: A Perspective of The Care Sector It has been a very unsettling few months for care provide ...