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Discouraging atmosphere in the workplace

Bullying in the Workplace

Bullying in the Workplace Key Contact: Claire Knowles Author: Rebecca Mahon This month included anti-bullying week, so we decided to take a look at what constitutes as bullying and how employers can ensure it doesn’t happen in the workplace. What is bullying in the workplace? There is no legal definition of bullying in the workplace,...
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Money & Currency

Rates updates from April 2019

Rates updates from April 2019 It’s that time of the year again where employers need to get to grips with new minimum entitlements for their staff. This year, there are a few extra increases and requirements to be aware of. Wages The national minimum wage rates for the five categories of workers increased on 1...
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Directors’ Liability

Directors’ Liability The vast majority of our day-to-day instructions are received from company directors, duly authorised by the company to act on its behalf. When acting for a company, our advice will always be in that company’s best commercial and legal interests. However, whether and how our advice is implemented is ultimately in the hands...
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Workplace stress

Workplace stress April held stress awareness month to raise public awareness about the causes and cures of modern-day stress. According to the Mental Health Foundation (MHF), 74% of UK adults have felt so stressed at some point over the last year they felt overwhelmed or unable to cope. Last year it conducted a survey of...
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Scales of justice and Gavel on wooden table

Time limits in the ET – not to be taken lightly

If an employment tribunal does not receive a claim within the relevant time limit, this will on the face of it mean that the tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear the claim.
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Money & Currency

National Living Wage increase – how will it affect your business?

National Living Wage increase – how will it affect your business? The national minimum wage has seen a fairly big transformation over the last couple of years – with some significant increases being introduced and it being rebranded as the “national living wage”. As another increase has been issued and with more increases on the...
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Dictaphone / Digital voice recorder on laptop

Covert recordings – what is the worst that could happen?

It's no secret that employers and employment lawyers alike are normally extremely wary of employees recording meetings. Indeed, we often advise employers to get employees to confirm that they are not recording disciplinary, grievance or other 'high stakes' meetings right at the start of such a meeting.
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Case on restrictive covenants at Supreme Court (22/23 January 2019)

Case on restrictive covenants at Supreme Court (22/23 January 2019) Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd was appealed to the Supreme Court last week. The case concerns an employee, Ms Tillman, who sought to work for a direct competitor of Egon Zehnder before the expiry of her non-compete restrictive covenant. Egon Zehnder sought an injunction from...
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Gender pay gap reports – are you ready?

Gender pay gap reports – are you ready? Under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 (the GPG Regulations) which came into force in 2017, employers with 250 or more employees must publish annual reports on their mean and median hourly rate of pay and bonuses across four pay quartiles for each...
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Equal pay on the shop floor: Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley

Equal pay on the shop floor: Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley Thousands of Asda shop floor workers, who argued that their customer-facing roles are undervalued compared to warehouse workers, have won the latest round of a legal battle with their employer over equal pay, in a ruling that has been hailed as a potential “game-changer”...
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