ICO guidance on lawfully monitoring workers Companies may be interested to know that the ICO has recently published its guidance, Employment practices and data protection – Monitoring workers, which gives helpful guidance to employers on monitoring their workers within the remit of GDPR. Monitoring workers… Read More »Soundbite
Legal 500 – Leading Firm 2024 We are delighted that Bradshaw Trees Law has been ranked as a Leading Law Firm in the Legal 500, and we haven’t quite reached 2 years old! Thank you so much to all our clients who gave feedback on… Read More »Soundbite – Legal 500
No right to redundancy pay where the employee changes their mind about suitable alternative employment. A Tribunal has held that an employee was not entitled to redundancy pay when she changed her mind about accepting a suitable alternative employment. However, her claim for unfair dismissal… Read More »Soundbite
Tribunal quarterly statistics for April to June 2023 and award statistics for 2022/2023 have been published The latest quarterly statistics have been released by The Ministry of Justice (although they have included a word of caution when comparing data due to a transition to a… Read More »Soundbite
New guidance from Acas issued on reasonable adjustments for mental health at work There has been new guidance issued from Acas on reasonable adjustments for mental health at work which applies to both employers and workers. The guidance has been prepared in conjunction with Affinity… Read More »Soundbite
Annual Tribunal Limit Increases (also relevant to the calculation of statutory redundancy pay) We have now received the regular annual increase in tribunal limits which will apply from 6th April. These will apply to anyone dismissed on or after 6th April. The key increases are:… Read More »Soundbite
The draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2023 have been put before Parliament. From 1 April 2023, they change the hourly rates of the national minimum wage (“NMW”) and national living wage (“NLW”) as follows: The accommodation offset amount increases from £8.70 to £9.10. If… Read More »Soundbite: National Minimum Wage changes from 1 April 2023
Government consulting on Statutory Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement Many of our clients periodically consider changing terms and conditions of employment, which ideally happens in agreement with employees. However, where some or all employees refuse to agree to new terms, employers can terminate… Read More »Soundbite
The Government is consulting on changes to legislation following Supreme Court decision on holiday for term time workers (Harpur Trust case) Following the Supreme Court’s judgement last year in Harpur Trust v Brazel, many of our clients have been grappling with how to change their… Read More »Soundbite
Happy new year! The team at Bradshaw Trees Law have returned to the office with a spring in their step after a lovely Christmas break and we hope you have too. Did you know that we offer businesses a free review of their contracts of… Read More »Soundbite: Time for a contract review?