HR & Employment Law

At our Birmingham event last week we were asked: Q. Can you ask applicants their age? A. This depends on...

Employment laws protect job applicants as well as employees from possible discrimination and so a) in order to hire the...

Imposing a dress code policy is perfectly legal when it factors in an employees rights, but in some cases employers...

This week a tribunal ruled a senior member of staff had been unfairly dismissed because his employer had failed to...

How best to manage sickness absence? We held three business briefings in December at Cheltenham, Cambridge and Swansea discussing the...

In addition to announcing increases in the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates in his autumn statement, the...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Celebrations are well underway, the streets are lined with decorations, and those...

The 5 Fundamental Standards and their Key Lines of Enquiry, are set out by the CQC to assess services against...

HM Revenue & Customs has produced a consultation document proposing an end to the tax and national insurance contributions (NICs)...

Following a commitment in ‘Budget 2016’, statutory paternity leave of up to two consecutive weeks is now available in Ireland...