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As many of you know, this week is Carers Week 2023, an annual campaign that aims to highlight the challenges faced by carers and recognising the outstanding contribution...

What should you do to ensure you stay on the right side of the law when looking at creative alternatives to redundancy?

The Labour Party's Employment Rights Bill proposes significant reforms, including expanding collective redundancy consultation requirements by removing the "single establishment" limitation, increasing potential penalties for non-compliance, and consulting on lifting protective award caps. Implementation is expected in 2026.

In the recent case of UQ v Marclean Technologies S.L.U., the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") considered the reference period that should be used to determine whether the threshold has...

In a radical judgment, the President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal has overturned previously binding authority and ruled that an employer must consult about why it wants to make redundancies.

Further updates to the government's guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme were made on 30 April 2020 and 1 May 2020.

In this episode, Chris Fisher looks at the Court of Appeal case of Gwynedd Council v Barratt and the question of whether (or when) an employer should offer a right of appeal on a ...

An employer should consider whether to consult at a workforce level at a formative stage of all redundancy proposals, regardless of numbers (and therefore whether the collective consultation obligations apply)...

The duty to collectively consult under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“TULCRA”) arises when an employer ‘proposes to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less’.

Ahead of the 4 July 2024 general election, the main UK political parties have released their manifestos, highlighting pledges on employment law and business immigration.

Number of redundancies contemplated: one. Number of employees in the selection pool: one.

There has been a sharp rise in complaints and the threat of litigation aimed at businesses over the past five years.

On 19 February 2024, the government published a revised draft statutory Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement and Explanatory Memorandum...

We have produced a practical checklist that highlights the steps that employers should consider when handling collective consultations in the UK during these challenging times

The party manifestos for the general election contain a wide range of proposals that could directly affect the operation of employment tribunals and the enforcement of employment rights. What should employers expect?

Just two weeks after the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, set out the Government's new Job Support Scheme (JSS), which will replace furlough from November 2020

In July 2019 the Government published its response to a consultation on extending redundancy protections to those on family leave, but without specifying any particular timetable for doing so.