Sexual harassment – new duty on employers

Sexual harassment – new duty on employers

Another week has passed…specifically the first week of ‘freedom’. How has everyone found it? For me personally, I haven’t really done that much different to what I would have done before, so I guess for me nothing seems all that different yet. What was interesting for...
End of home working – what to consider?

End of home working – what to consider?

As of yesterday, 19th July 2021, social distancing measures now no longer apply in the workplace, and there will no longer be a general instruction to work from home. This will increase the risks for the clinically extremely vulnerable, who may not respond as well to...
Sexual harassment – new duty on employers

Restrictions being lifted – top tips for employers

19th July… its finally arrived. Can you believe that the day has finally come where restrictions are being lifted? When this pandemic started, I was one of the many positive people that truly believed it would be something that would affect us for a short period of...
Sexual harassment – new duty on employers

Dobson – a landmark case

It is me again, with another interesting case to update you all on. A case which sets out to be quite a precedent for working mothers and the particular rights they may have should their employer ask them to change their hours of work. In this particular case, Dobson,...
End of home working – what to consider?

Is it coming home?

With England ending 55 years of heartache and finally making a major tournament final, many employers are allowing employees to have some or all of Monday off – and who can blame them. It’s not every day England reach a final! It could be seen as a move by...
Working more flexibly – 3 top tips

Working more flexibly – 3 top tips

Well, that is it, we have our “freedom date”. No doubt many of us are looking forward to things starting to go back to the old normal in our personal lives. But what about work? Employees tend to be in one of two camps. They either love working from home and don’t...
Workplace conflict – what is the cost to the employer?

Workplace conflict – what is the cost to the employer?

Well, last week was an interesting one as we got to work on two different initiatives. One involved a few of us trainees working with Nottingham Trent University on a virtual insight/vacation scheme to help provide the students with some insight into what life is like...
End of home working – what to consider?

Furlough scheme winds down

The end is in sight – the furlough scheme comes to an end in September and has now changed from the government paying 80% of the wages of people who couldn’t work, or whose employers could no longer afford to pay them. From today, the government will pay...
‘Fire & Rehire’- where do employers stand?

‘Fire & Rehire’- where do employers stand?

A lot of you might have seen quite a bit in the news about employers firing and rehiring their employees. Now, what is this you ask… essentially during the pandemic, whether to access the furlough scheme or to just simply enable survival of the business through these...