Articles tagged ‘Legislation and Employment Law’

If your business relies on zero-hours, low-hours or variable-hours workers, the Employment Rights Act 2025 could have a significant impact on how you schedule work, communicate shifts and manage payroll in the years ahead.

For business and professional services employers, people are the product.

For manufacturing and supply chain businesses, a single absent employee can affect an entire production line, delivery schedule or customer promise.

HR and payroll teams are responsible for managing some of an organisation's most important information.

Significant changes to UK employment law are now underway. The Employment Rights Act represents one of the most substantial shifts in workplace legislation in recent years, bringing new responsibilities for employers while expanding protections for workers.

Reforms to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) that have been on the horizon for some time are now rapidly approaching with the Employment Rights Act receiving Royal Assent in late-December and draft guidance trickling out from the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).

Industries that operate on multiple sites or have mobile workers such as construction have additional challenges when it comes to maintaining compliance.

The right to disconnect, also known as the right to switch off has been talked about a lot in the news lately. Why is that, and what even is the right to disconnect anyway?

New legislation, known as ‘Jack’s Law’ is set to be introduced in April 2020 after a 10-year campaign led by Lucy Herd in memory of her son Jack.