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 4:32:20 PM TPT Benefit Review at the High Court By Kirsty Thompson The court hearing for the case which will determine whether TPT pension schemes (including the Social Housing Pension Scheme and the...
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...
2/5/2025 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...
1/23/2025 2:38:22 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: With only 7 bank holidays in the annual leave year 2024/2025 – do your workers need to be given an extra day off? By Chris Cuckney Easter fell in March last year, and this year it isn’t until mid-April 2025. The effect of this is that there will only be 7 bank...
1/15/2025 11:53:15 AM Employment law: What’s on the horizon for 2025? By Chris Cuckney 2025 promises to see big changes to the employment law landscape. Important developments are expected in areas such as artificial...
1/14/2025 5:20:22 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: What factors don't have to be considered where there is an irretrievable breakdown in the employment relationship? By Chris Cuckney There is an implied term of mutual trust and confidence in every employment relationship. This works both ways in that employees need to...
1/13/2025 11:51:48 AM Home Office prohibition on recouping sponsorship costs By Katie Maguire On 31 December 2024 the Home Office updated its guidance stating that employers are prohibited from passing on to, or recouping (or...
12/19/2024 4:17:43 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Is English nationalism a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010? By Chris Cuckney The last few years has seen a spate of Employment Tribunal claims assessing whether certain philosophical beliefs are capable of...
12/12/2024 2:06:27 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: 10 years of Shared Parental Leave By Chris Cuckney When Shared Parental Leave and was introduced on 1 December 2014, it was hailed as something that would revolutionise family leave. It...
12/11/2024 10:40:04 AM Top Tips: handling negative press By Nikki Bowker It is easy to think of recent examples of people/organisations handling negative press poorly, in a way that has served only to worsen...