3/21/2025 8:16:37 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Indirect Discrimination and childcare disparity following Marston (Holdings) Ltd v Perkins By Chris Cuckney Indirect discrimination remains an important consideration for businesses who are looking to implement new workplace policies or ways of...
3/13/2025 12:09:45 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Amendments to the Employment Rights Bill By Chris Cuckney In October 2024 the Government published the now famous Employment Rights Bill. The Government has since consulted on almost every aspect...
3/6/2025 9:01:32 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Ramadan 2025: Supporting workers in the workplace By Chris Cuckney The holy month of Ramadan started on 28 February 2025 and will conclude on the evening of 30 March 2025. For millions of practicing...
2/27/2025 11:03:56 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Statutory Neonatal Care Leave and Pay By Chris Cuckney In our blog at the turn of the year we highlighted that one of the significant changes this year would be the introduction of a new right...
2/27/2025 9:55:08 AM The difference between the director duty to avoid conflicts of interest and a director declaring interested transactions under the Companies Act 2006 By Prasan Modasia Directors of a company have legal duties designed to ensure that they act in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. Two...
2/26/2025 5:09:45 PM Government Responds to the Phase 2 Grenfell Inquiry Report By Mark London On 26 February 2025, in a Ministerial statement in the House of Commons, Angela Rayner commented on the Phase 2 report and noted that the...
2/25/2025 1:18:20 PM The one about the Moths, the Mansion, and Misrepresentation - Iva Patarkatsishvili & Yevhen Hunyak v William Woodward-Fisher [2025] EWHC 265 (Ch) By Ben Halsey Stavrina Tofallis Judgment has now been handed down by the High Court in the above case: Judiciary.uk Aside from representing a unique opportunity for...
2/21/2025 9:31:43 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Withholding important information in job applications following Easton v Secretary of State for the Home Office By Chris Cuckney Most people know someone who has withheld information in their C.V. or job application that they’d rather not have to explain to a future...
2/12/2025 1:44:28 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Managing competing protected characteristics in the workplace. By Chris Cuckney For the last two weeks a Scottish Employment Tribunal has been hearing the case of a female nurse who has brought claims against her...
2/10/2025 10:13:15 AM Simplified disclosure regime for low denomination bond issuances By Rachel Dros Julian Barker Alice Overton Rachel Orgill-Harris +1 more... Show less The FCA is proposing to simplify prospectus disclosure requirements for non-equity securities by creating a single disclosure standard,...
2/5/2025 1:43:55 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: The data protection and privacy risks in using artificial intelligence in recruitment By Chris Cuckney In January 2025 the Government announced a plan to ‘unleash’ artificial intelligence (AI) across the UK to deliver systematic change. AI...
1/31/2025 3:21:13 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: The four-day working week - a thing of the future, or a passing fad? By Chris Cuckney There is no doubt that the notion of a four-day working week without a reduction in pay is slowly gaining momentum. Earlier this week the...