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With a raft of upcoming legislative changes, there's a lot to keep on top of in 2024. We've produced a timeline to help keep track of what's ahead.

Imagine facing a legal bill of £100,000.

An employment tribunal has held in Gibson v Lothian Leisure that an employee had been unfairly dismissed under section 100(1)(e) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA) for raising health and safety concerns...

The Government has published draft regulations setting out the changes it proposes for those taking statutory paternity leave where the expected week of childbirth...

The EAT has given some useful guidance to employers undertaking collective redundancies, in the case of Phillips v Xtera Communications Ltd UKEAT/0244/10.

We reported last month on the EAT decision in the Woolworths case which means that collective consultation is required whenever an employer proposes to make 20 or more employees redundant within a 90 day period, regardless of where those employees are located or how they are organised.

The statutory limit on a week's pay (used primarily to calculate statutory redundancy payments and basic awards in unfair dismissal claims) will increase from £525 to £538 per week.

This year's increases in the limits for payments and awards to workers in employment rights cases in Northern Ireland have been confirmed. From 1 April 2021, the national living wage (NLW) will increase ...

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Knowing when to start collective redundancy consultation is a difficult issue for many employers.

A worker for the BBC who claimed she was bullied after blowing the whistle on a £250,000 redundancy payout for a senior manager, who was just eight months from retirement was given £30,000 by the Corporation for dropping her claim.

Women have the right not to be treated unfavourably because they are exercising their right to maternity leave.

I have recently heard a couple of common UK employment law myths being bandied around more often than usual and wanted to see if ChatGPT could provide some answers, or if the AI was actually the culprit.

In April, Environment Secretary George Eustice said that, in some cases, furloughed employees would be encouraged to take a second job picking fruit to help the UK harvest.

The government has published its proposals to change the collective redundancy consultation rules.

Most businesses from time to time have to regrettably look at the question of redundancies, but in recent years there has been uncertainty over whether or not collective consultation obligations are triggered and therefore how long redundancy consultation should last.

The Government released further guidance on what notice periods you can claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.