7/30/2025 3:20:41 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Big Changes to the UK's Visa Sponsorship Rules from 22 July 2025 By Chris Cuckney Following the Government’s Immigration White Paper earlier this year, sweeping changes to the UK’s visa sponsorship rules have now come...
7/25/2025 10:04:02 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Accessing disability and “substantial adverse effect” following Stedman v Haven Leisure Ltd By Chris Cuckney In the recent case of Stedman v Haven Leisure Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has provided useful guidance that will assist HR...
7/17/2025 11:26:15 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Tribunal Rules Dismissal of Disabled Employee Over Offensive Online Messages was Objectively Justified - Duncan v Fujitsu Services By Chris Cuckney The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that an employer was justified in dismissing a disabled employee for making abusive and...
7/11/2025 8:49:42 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: A Week of Government Announcements By Chris Cuckney The last week or so has seen a series of important employment law announcements from the Government. Ban on Using Non-Disclosure...
7/4/2025 9:52:57 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: The Importance of Considering Alternative Employment in Redundancy Processes: Hendy Group Ltd v D Kennedy By Chris Cuckney With business costs continuing to rise following the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions in April 2025, redundancy is...
6/26/2025 8:33:50 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: The Rise of AI in the HR Process By Chris Cuckney Artificial intelligence (AI) has hit the workplace like a tidal wave, and every day it seems to make its way into a different area of the...
6/18/2025 12:57:34 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Employment Appeal Tribunal: External HR Consultants can be personally liable when acting as agents of the employer By Chris Cuckney It is more common than most people might think for companies to appoint external consultants to carry out investigations. For example, if...
6/10/2025 5:20:24 PM Carers Week 9 – 15 June 2025: Caring About Equality By Chris Cuckney Carers Week is an annual event designed to highlight the challenges faced by carers and highlight the vital role they play in families...
5/29/2025 9:04:47 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: The ‘all reasonable steps’ defence following Mr Campbell v 1) Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & 2) Mr Wesley Hammond By Chris Cuckney Under the Equality Act 2010, an employer is liable for the discriminatory acts of its employees if those acts are done during the course...
5/23/2025 1:40:14 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: The Government’s White Paper on “Restoring Control over the UK Immigration System” By Chris Cuckney In response to growing public and political concerns that the current levels of legal migration are sustainable, last week the Government...
5/15/2025 9:11:37 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: EHRC Publishes Important Guidance on Single Sex Facilities Following the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Definition of “Sex” By Chris Cuckney Few can have missed the Supreme Court’s recent judgment that “sex” and “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) means “biological sex.”...
4/30/2025 2:44:54 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Government consultation on mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting By Chris Cuckney 30 March and 4 April are the annual reporting deadlines by which large employers have to report their gender pay gap information. As we...