National Minimum Wage Increase for 2025

The UK’s tax burden may never have been higher, and we are going to let your accountants and other advisers update you about the finer details of what the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer has just revealed, but we do want to inform you about the...

Flexible Working Changes

The part of the recently published Employment Rights Bill dealing with flexible working is actually a bit of a damp squib. While the government has made bold claims about making flexible working the “default” unless an employer can prove otherwise, the changes are in...

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

New legislation has been passed to introduce a duty for all employers to take “reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment of employees in the course of their employment and the new duty comes into effect on 26 October 2024. So, what exactly are...

Reasonable Adjustments

An NHS Administrator with a “reduced ability to concentrate in noisy environments” following a brain haemorrhage has been awarded £27,208.74 by an employment tribunal after the NHS Trust she worked for failed to make reasonable adjustments. The Claimant, Rose Davies,...

Employment Rights Bill

As predicted, the government has today confirmed which of its proposed reforms to employment law will actually become law. The most eye-catching one is definitely “Day One” unfair dismissal rights so, when the bill does eventually become law, employees...