On Tuesday 24 January, BEI published a draft Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement or, as most recently referred to, the practice of ‘fire and re-hire’. The practice came to the forefront of employment law during lockdown when a number...
The Government has launched a consultation on calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers. In July 2022 the Supreme Court held in Harpur Trust v Brazel that the amount of leave to which a part-year worker under a...
From 1 July 2022, the law on fit notes was updated. Fit notes can now be issued by nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, and physiotherapists in addition to doctors (so long as they are discussing your fitness to work with you). The...
Welcome With Spring having (apparently) sprung, welcome to this month’s Update. My mention of the time of year is (you’ll be unsurprised to hear) a clumsy segue into some news from France about spring cleaning, housework and whether shirking...
We are excited to announce our next HR Breakfast Meeting being held at The Potters Heron Hotel on Wednesday 27th April 2022. If you haven’t attended previously, it’s a great opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, share stories and...
I appreciate there are now greater concerns world-wide, but you’ve probably had as much as you can take in terms of existential misery, none more so than the poor and brave Ukrainians. So, we’ll concentrate on employment law and pretend for just...
Welcome to our first Update of 2022. Happy New Year and this year ‘things can only get better’ (as Brian Cox once sang in his band D-Ream before he became Professor Brian Cox and all-round smiley universe expert). We say goodbye to another year...
Well, it’s been a while. We postponed our newsletter while we were sending out COVID updates but now, with a new year, a new dawn and sunlit uplands (hopefully) hoving into view, we feel it is perhaps time to start getting back to normal – the...
Thousands of firms across the country could face legal action for breach of contract if they don’t apply furlough rules correctly in a bid to survive the Covid-19 crisis. That is our stark warning as we begin free introductory guidance sessions...
Welcome Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, says Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke. This, she says, is because sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour. “They don’t...
Welcome Happy New Year to one and all. We trust you came through the festive break unscathed. If not, I hope your Christmas party wasn’t as eventful as the one in the And Finally section below. If you were sent the following Government job advert...
Welcome “May you live in interesting times” is purportedly a traditional Chinese curse. Seemingly a blessing, the opposite is actually intended. Well, we do live in interesting times and I’m not just referring to the debacle currently taking...
