A wood-working company and its director have been fined after a HSE inspection uncovered a number of failings and risks around a...

An employee may give notice to end his or her employment at any time. An employer cannot refuse to accept a resignation but, in the event...

The government has announced that as of 19th July 2021, many of the remaining social distancing restrictions put in place to contain the...

Since the start of the pandemic restrictions in March 2020, many businesses have found themselves facing dire financial straits and have...

Businesses have had to adapt to a whole new world over the past fifteen months or so, and even with the talk of the final lockdown...

From 6 January, a national lockdown applied in all of England and you could only leave home for work purposes where it was unreasonable...

Generally, the legal sector is not known for its early adoption of technology; however, both courts and law firms are coming to rely more...

In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the UK and the first lockdown started, the government announced that temporary...

The Government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and major mobile operators, including Vodafone, have issued a warning and guidance...

When a company is taken over by a new owner, or where work that has been outsourced is taken back in-house, or a service provider...

If you are an employer with 250 or more employees, then under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, you...

A tribunal may make an award for injury to feelings to compensate for the consequences of discrimination. This can include distress,...

It is often thought that a health and safety offence will involve injury or death, or the immediate potential for those to happen....

In only a few days, it will be a year since the first lockdown was rolled out across the UK and millions of people suddenly found...

At the end of last year, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) delivered a judgment that has the potential to significantly change...

IR35 was introduced to tackle the problem of ‘disguised employment’. This is where organisations engage workers on a self-employed basis...

COVID-19 has dominated not just the national and international news for over a year now, but has also been a major topic of conversation...

Whether re-opening after lockdown or sanitising during occupancy, employers have to consider many different factors when ensuring their...

Millions of people have contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic. Well over 100,000 have sadly died, but while many others have made a...

The government’s COVID-19 National Workplace Testing programme has been expanded to cover more businesses, having previously been...