In part three of the Employment Rights Bill podcast series, Louise Keenan and Lucy White, members of the employment team, will discuss changes to fire and re-hire practices, harassment, zero-hour contracts and tribunal limitation periods.
We take a deep dive into the complicated process of employee monitoring.
The pandemic has brought the topic of health and wellbeing to the forefront, not least in the employment sphere.
It’s inevitable that many employers will now find themselves facing an increasing number of flexible working requests from employees who have been able to work remotely from home in recent months and wish to continue to do so in some form.
Sunday 10 October 2021 marks World Mental Health Day, with this year’s official theme announced by the World Federation for Mental Health as “Mental Health in an Unequal World”.
We spend approximately 90,000 hours of our lives at work. The only thing we spend more time doing than working, is sleeping.
The UK economy is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions of the last 18 months, the number of job vacancies are reaching record highs.
Speculators predicted a surge in redundancies this autumn as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme comes to an end on the 30th September. However, this surge doesn’t appear to be forthcoming.
Employment agency Reed has reported a 20% increase in the number of new positions offering unlimited annual leave as part of the benefits packages.
The deadline for EU (including EEA and Swiss citizens) to apply to continue living in the UK is fast approaching, with the EU Settlement Scheme set to close in less than two weeks’ time on 30 June 2021.g.