national minimum wage
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Revocation of sponsorship licences; don’t let it happen to your organisation
It’s no news that the social care sector in the UK is reliant on sponsored workers; rough estimates show that well over 150,000 care...
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Employees to have six months to bring a tribunal claim from 1 October
Working in August is always a bit of a struggle. Either you're reluctantly coming back from being on holiday, frantically preparing so...
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Employee training – who pays?
Training employees is part of the employment landscape. That training might be ongoing professional development, or it might be a more...
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Employment Rights Act Update #23 – Fair Work Agency and holiday pay enforcement and compliance
Holiday compliance and enforcement are on the Government's mind this week - maybe Mr Starmer feels he has holiday owed to him before he...
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Unpaid pre-employment training and conditional job offers – a shift in NMW risk
A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has provided an important reminder to employers: a ‘conditional’ job offer may...
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Key employment law changes in force from 6 April 2026
As part of our commitment to keeping clients informed of the latest employment law developments, we wanted to highlight several important...
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Volunteering is for volunteers, not workers; any confusion could be costly
The approximate annual cost of replacing volunteers with paid staff across the UK would be £16.4billion; they are a resource many...
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Employment lessons learnt in 2025 – here’s our juke box of goodies
You can’t hurry love, and you can’t hurry an employment rights bill either In this, the third and final draft of this paragraph, I can...
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Employment Rights Bill – Update #12: consultation on trade union access and union information to staff
Half term approaches and the Government has given us some reading material as we hunker down to the dark nights of autumn/winter 2025. ...
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Travel time and the National Minimum Wage – Court of Appeal clarifies ‘time work’
Summary In Commissioners for HMRC v Taylors Services Ltd (dissolved) and ors, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that time spent...
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Is overheard ‘banter’ harassment?
Over the recent weeks, there have been concerns raised about the reintroduction of employer liability for third-party harassment of...
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April increases to statutory payments
To paraphrase the Kipling poem very badly, if you can keep your head and apply the April statutory increases when all around you there is...
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