Interactive training and mock tribunals - ensuring your HR function is up to speed with processes and procedures.
We believe that providing effective training not only protects you against claims but empowers you to tackle more issues internally thereby reducing your overall legal costs. Our bespoke training programmes will ensure you are armed with the practical skills to best tackle any workforce issues.
Training can be provided to your team on one or more of these topics, depending on your requirements:
We also have a series of mock tribunals available, based on working examples, these provide an excellent opportunity for your team to experience a tribunal situation with no 'real-life consequences'.
After going back and forth several times between the House of Commons and the House of Lords in a game of parliamentary ping-pong, the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 received Royal Assent yesterday.
New obligations for employers to automatically enrol eligible workers into pensions are affecting more and more businesses. All employers will need to be fully compliant with the new regime as soon as they reach their specific staging date.
Legal Q & A comment as featured in Personnel Today.
It took an act of Parliament to allow shops to extend their opening hours during the London 2012 Olympics. Now, the debate over whether to loosen Sunday trading restrictions in England and Wales has been reignited as the prime minister's official spokesma
The Ministry of Justice has published its annual employment tribunal stats (compiled from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012) - showing a marked drop in total number of claims. But could the fact that many employers choose to settle early rather than fight a c
When a claimant saw an email sent from her employer via ACAS during settlement conciliation, which commented on her capabilities, she ultimately won a case of victimisation. And while the case of Vernon v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham provides
According to current figures from the Office of National Statistics, there were 20 million people in the UK aged over 50 in 2003. This is expected to increase to 27.2 million by 2031. In 2008, 19.1% of the population in Yorkshire was over retirem…
When can you show that a gender pay differential is due to historical grading based on skills and experience and not discrimination?
On 1 October, the majority of the Equality Act 2010 came into force. This replaced and consolidated the law on discrimination, making discrimination law more easily accessible to employees.
It is estimated that on any given working day there are approximately 1.2 million agency workers on assignment in the UK.
Provision comes into force on 6 April 2011, which allows employers to take positive action in relation to protected or under-represented groups when recruiting and/or promoting. The aim is to promote diversity in the workplace. “Protected g…
There's news that employment law may not be quite as burdensome as all that.
As featured in the Yorkshire Post.
So we’re working longer and retiring later. These latest figures from the Office for National Statistics won’t come as any great surprise to employers, many of whom are now in tune with an increasingly diverse workforce.
The planned changes to employment law are gathering pace with some fresh announcements from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
What a year that was. We saw the unfair dismissal qualifying period double, the start of automatic pension scheme enrolment, heftier costs penalties, shorter cases and judges sitting alone. And a lot more besides.
We take a month’s break from newsletter production and what happens? Cases continue to pour through the tribunals, making our job of choosing a handful to report in this issue pretty tricky.
Sarah Tahamtani comments on a Yorkshire Post article - "Racy novel could prove to be a problem in the workplace"
In breaking news, the Ministry of Justice has announced that from summer 2013, (ex-) employees will have to pay fees to bring an employment tribunal claim.
It's caused a bit of a stir. Adrian Beecroft's government-commissioned report on employment law has 'shake-up' as its middle name.
It wouldn’t be a Queen’s Speech without a small element of anticlimax. As usual, predictions about this year’s main features were pretty accurate.
