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Business Employment lawyers in London and Thames Valley

Our employment law team work alongside clients, as trusted partners navigating the best course of action.

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Employment law is a rapidly changing and a breach could have consequences that can be costly to rectify.

We can offer a reassuring hand to help navigate the employment regulations and guide you to the right solution, offering the full range of employment law advice including immigration advice.

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New Employment Law Updates for April 2024

There’s a large number of employment law changes coming in April that are set to shake up the workplace. Employers will need to update their policies to comply with these changes and ensure fair treatment of affected employees.

Update your HR Policies for only £750 + VAT

To update your HR policies impacted by the new changes in employment law, our team of highly experienced employment lawyers are providing a fixed price of £750 + VAT for a limited time only. This offer includes:

New policy required:

Carer’s Leave policy

Policies that will need amending:

Family Friendly leave policies: including maternity, adoption, and shared parental
Redundancy policy
Flexible Working policy
Time off policy: any policy which covers time off for dependants or emergency leave may need updating

All this for only £750!

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Contracts, policies and procedures

Disciplinary & grievance

Discrimination

Flexible working & family friendly

Industrial relations & trade unions

Redundancies & settlement agreements

Restricted covenants & team moves

TUPE

Unfair dismissal

Whistleblowing

Tribunal Price Information

Key contacts

Monica Atwal

Managing Partner

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+44 118 960 4605

Helen Beech

Partner

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+44 118 960 4639

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14 June 2019
Employment

Jobs and skills for a brighter future

A very expert global panel convened at the ILO conference in Geneva on 14 June examined issues around how to produce decent jobs in the future.

14 June 2019
Employment

Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in discrimination cases

The Women and Equalities Select Committee (“WESC”) has called for the government to either ban or reset the parameters on which NDAs are used by employers to silence employees’ allegations of unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace. The WESC has commented that it is “completely unacceptable that allegations of unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace are routinely covered up by employers with legally drafted NDAs”.

14 June 2019
Employment

Court of Appeal overturns EAT decision on trade union inducement

In December 2017 we blogged on the case of Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others. In this case, an employer’s proposal to change terms and conditions was rejected in a consultative ballot and it subsequently wrote to all employees directly saying that a failure to agree to the terms would “lead to no Christmas Bonus and no pay increase this year”. The employer argued that it did this, not to circumvent collective bargaining, but because otherwise it would run out of time to pay the Christmas Bonus.The Tribunal and EAT held that these actions were a breach of S145B…

12 June 2019
Employment

Workers’ voluntary overtime included in holiday pay

Judgment in favour of ambulance workers could have wider implications, say employment lawyers. Voluntary overtime for ambulance workers should be factored into holiday pay allocations, providing such overtime is sufficiently regular to form part of a normal remuneration package, a court has ruled.

12 June 2019
Employment

Succession Planning – Are you ready for the future?

If one of the key individuals in your company, such as a manager or someone with technical skills, was to resign tomorrow morning, would you be able to identify their successor? This is a question that many businesses struggle to answer, with companies more likely to recruit from outside the business when vacancies arise, than look for a suitable replacement among their existing staff.

12 June 2019
Employment

Favouritism, micromanaging and poor instructions – the errors managers continue to make

New research shows that nearly 50% of employees have at some point resigned as a direct consequence of their poor working relationship with their manager. Process management firm Process Bliss undertook the research, conducting an online survey within the UK of small to medium sized businesses.

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