The Labour Party saw a landslide victory in the 2024 UK General Election, assuming Government again after an absence of 14 years. ‘A New Deal for Working People’, the plan by the Labour Party that was released on 24 May 2024, outlined reforms and legislative changes it intended to bring about within its first 100
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The UK’s general election is due to take place on 4th July 2024. This month, we’ll look at the proposed Employment Law plans and reforms set out by the two leading political parties in the race for No. 10 – the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. Please note that this blog will not analyse
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As an Employer, you know that you are responsible for the health, safety and well-being of your Employees. However, when you are busy running day-to-day operations and ensuring your Employees have all they need to be effective, it can be easy to forget about, and even neglect your own well-being. Excessive pressures and demands in
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Difficult conversations at work are inevitable. Most people prefer to avoid conflict. In the workplace, this type of avoidance can look like; failing to address someone’s inappropriate behaviour; refusing to discuss poor performance; or not drawing necessary boundaries with colleagues, for example. The longer a difficult conversation is avoided, the worse the matter often becomes.
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‘Flexible Working’ is the term that refers to working patterns, arrangements, or hours. Examples include part-time, flexi-time, compressed hours, adjusted start and finish times, and alternative work locations such as working from home. Flexible working has historically been of particular benefit to Employees with caring responsibilities outside of work, or health issues. The UK Government
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Employers are responsible for the Health and Safety of Employees when they are at work. Legally, they have no responsibility for them outside of work. So, what happens when an Employee is a victim of domestic abuse? While this is not directly a workplace issue, it does have repercussions in terms of affecting an Employee’s
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At the time of writing, we are experiencing a particularly cold winter snap, with snow and ice predicted for many parts of the UK. During these colder months, Employers need to be prepared for handling adverse weather conditions, to ensure their Employees can access the workplace and work safely, and that the business can continue
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When we were schoolchildren, many of us found ourselves unable to fully enjoy and relax on our Sunday evenings, as we dreaded the school week looming on Monday morning. We dreaded the work, the interactions with people we didn’t feel that close to, overbearing teachers, and panic over how we’d get our assignments finished by
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Levels of long-term sickness in the UK are at a record high. In May 2023, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported that for every 13 people currently working,1 person is on long-term sickness absence from the workforce. The ONS commented that the underlying causes for the record levels of sickness was a rise in
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Domestic abuse is said to affect one in four women, and one in six men in their lifetime. In the year ending March 2019, an estimated 2.4 million adults, aged 16 to 74, had experienced domestic abuse, a figure that jumped significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic, largely down to stay-at-home orders and closures of workplaces
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