HR Briefing - March 2025

Welcome to this month's briefing for HR teams and in-house employment counsel – bringing you this month's employment law highlights in an easy-to-read package.

Employment awards and rates

Figures for all sorts of employment data are updated annually. To keep track, we've produced a document for you to print out and staple to your desk. It has the new figures for unfair dismissal, injury to feelings, redundancy payments, maternity pay, sick pay, the national minimum wage, and all sorts of other useful bits and pieces.

Fiduciary relationships

Some positions carry such a high degree of trust that the law gives them a special name, and subjects them to special duties. Trustees of a trust, and directors of a company, are the two most common categories of fiduciary, but senior employees can sometimes also be within that category. Fiduciaries owe heightened duties of loyalty – to the beneficiaries of a trust, or to the company – and are not permitted to derive any