Those who are not football fans may need to be reminded that the Football World Cup competition starts in Russia on 14 June. Events of this kind always throw up issues for employers, depending to [...]

How to comply with GDPR and immigration requirements By Samar Shams, Head of Immigration at EmployLaw, 4 June 2018 The data categories, data retention requirements and international transfers involved in immigration prompt special consideration under [...]

Are you and your business ready for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes in to force in less than two months? You will have seen plenty of courses explaining the legalities of [...]

Background In the Employment Tribunal (ET), the general rule is that legal costs are very rarely awarded against either party. They can be awarded if a party or representative; "has acted vexatiously, abusively, disruptively or [...]

Background Late last month we saw the first Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision on parity of terms for Agency workers. Under Regulation 5(1) of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR) an agency worker “…shall be [...]

Increases in National Minimum Wage and Tribunal Compensation Limits   National Minimum Wage Further to the budget in November 2017, the new minimum wage rates will increase as follows from April 1st 2018: [...]

In January 2017, Adobe conducted a study which showed that 64% of employees and 62% of Managers believed that the appraisal system is outdated. Further, 58% of employees viewed the process as a needless HR [...]

CARRYING OVER HOLIDAY PAY The beginning of the New Year tends to be the most popular time of year for people to book their summer holidays. Lots of organisations run their holiday year from January [...]

As you may be aware data protection laws in the UK and throughout the EU are set for a long overdue significant overhaul with the coming into force of the General Data Protection Regulation on [...]