Employment Tribunals: A solicitor’s guide for employers
Lisa Branker, Head of Employment and HR at employment law specialists Beecham Peacock Solicitors, offers her expert advice on preparing and dealing with an employment tribunal… Employment tribunals can be long, costly, stressful and risk damaging the reputation of both employee and employer when workplace relations turn sour. This is made even more concerning by the news […]
Protecting confidential information: The essential role of Non-Disclosure Agreements
By Christina Donos (pictured), a Solicitor in the Corporate Law team at Blacks Solicitors Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) play a crucial role in today’s business landscape. They are widely used to protect and regulate confidential information and are arguably the most common type of legal agreement entered into. Despite their widespread use, their effectiveness is often […]
Quiet Quitting: The rise of a subtle resignation trend in modern workplaces
With the latest State of the Global Workforce 2024 report from Gallup highlighting that a whopping 90% of the UK workforce feel disengaged at work and are “quiet quitting,” we spoke to leading employment lawyers Daniela Korn and Praveen Bhatia of media law firm Tan Ward, to take a closer look at this growing trend and its impact on businesses… In recent years, a […]
The Morale Compass: Tips from the experts on keeping staff happy
Has low staff morale become endemic? Now more than ever it seems people are unhappy at work, with many factors leading to job-hopping, low employee trust and a tendency to disengage from the workplace with the second quarter of 2023 seeing approximately 335k job-to-job resignations reported. This is 13k more than in the previous quarter and peaked […]
Dealing with long-term absences: Supporting your workforce
Long-term absence due to sickness is at a record high in the UK. From April to June of 2023, nearly half a million people took leave from work because of a long-term illness, adding to the 2.5 million people already absent long-term. Recent figures reveal that over 185 million sick days were taken in 2022, […]
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Warning to accommodate neurodiverse employees
Companies must make reasonable adjustments to accommodate neurodiverse employees or risk being taken to a tribunal and ordered to pay compensation, an employment lawyer has warned. Lucy Williams, an Associate in the Employment team at West Midlands firm Higgs LLP, said compensation can exceed £56,200 in the most serious discrimination cases under new Presidential Guidance […]
Holiday Pay: How the Supreme Court’s recent verdict made monumental changes
By Sarah Bunker, Senior Solicitor at esphr The Supreme Court’s long-awaited ruling in the Harpur Trust v Brazel case involving holiday pay has recently been made public. Whilst the ruling is clear, the implications are not. There is no guidance from the courts on calculating holiday pay for permanent employees who only work part of […]
Managing employees who are hesitant to return to the workplace due to mental health issues
By Kirstie Beattie, Senior Employment Solicitor at WorkNest Employee resistance is becoming a common concern as more organisations strive to reintroduce employees into the workplace. While there have been abundant studies on people’s attitudes towards homeworking, each discovering slightly different sentiments, a recent survey by Flexjobs found that 65% of people who worked remotely during […]
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