3/24/2025 2:51:30 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: New Statutory Rates in April 2025 By Chris Cuckney As the start of a new tax year approaches there will be an increase to the statutory rates payable for certain employment rights that...
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...
2/21/2025 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...