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11th May 2022
In celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we will be enjoying an additional bank holiday on 3 June 2022, and the usual late May bank holiday has been moved to 2 June 2022. Whilst many employees will be glad of the upcoming 4-day weekend, are they all entitled to take the additional bank holiday as […]
27th April 2022
Research by BUPA concluded that almost a million workers left their jobs before the pandemic due to experiencing menopause symptoms. A further poll by Research without Borders found the primary reasons for those leaving the workforce. These included the high pressures placed on them, the lack of flexible working arrangements to manage their symptoms, and a lack […]
23rd March 2022
Managing COVID-19 in the Workplace Following the publication of the government’s plan for ‘Living with COVID’ in February 2022, we were provided with a roadmap to the (potentially final) removal of all COVID-19 restrictions. We saw the first change implemented from 24 February 2022 which brought an end to the legal requirement to Self-Isolate upon […]
22nd February 2022
There have been a number of employment law and HR updates making the news in February. In our latest blog, we take a look at these events. Wales: Suggestion of 4-Day Working Week Trial The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to trial a shorter working week. A new report, […]
19th January 2022
What’s Happening? New PPE Regulations are coming into force on 6th April 2022 which amend the existing requirements by extending employers and employees duties regarding PPE to a new category of persons – defined as Limb (b) Workers. Please note – this is a significant change, and businesses need to carefully consider whether the change […]
10th November 2021
The Government has recently legislated to require employees working in Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated care homes in England to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or to provide proof that they are medically exempt from vaccination. There has been a concern since the legislation was introduced that the process for obtaining an exemption was uncertain […]
8th September 2021
Many employers have seen a reduction in sickness instances over the last sixteen months of the pandemic; furlough, flexible working and operating from home are significant contributing factors to this positive development. A more fluid approach to work continues to improve the physical and mental well-being of the employee, and innovations in the support offered […]
4th August 2021
Collective bargaining describes the process by which workers negotiate terms of employment, through their union representatives; unions will most likely pre-negotiate, before negotiating and attempting to reach contractual agreement on a particular matter. This process is pro-employee and certainly gives a voice to workers in the betterment of their wages and working conditions. As well […]
1st July 2021
CGD Europe, a subsidiary of the Centre for Global Development decided not to renew Maya Forstater’s visiting fellow contract and offered no further consultancy work, following an investigation into a series of tweets that expressed her views on gender. In 2019 she lodged a discrimination claim which the ET dismissed, finding that her comments were […]