Hazel Findlay

Associate

Associate in the pensions and employment team.

Hazel is an associate in the pensions and employment team who provides pragmatic solutions to clients across our sectors on all aspects of employment law and business immigration.

Hazel has experience in all aspects of employment law including disciplinary and grievance processes, contracts of employment, handbooks, redundancy/restructures, the application of TUPE, collective consultation, discrimination, managing sickness absence, holiday pay, defending employment tribunal claims and settlement agreements. She is also a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association and advises organisations on business immigration, including sponsor licence applications, preventing illegal working and the health and care worker visa.

My specialisms

Employee relations issues
TUPE
Change programmes - redundancy, and terms and conditions
HR policies and procedures
Business immigration

My insights

Home Office white paper on immigration May 2025 May 13, 2025

The Home Office white paper published on 12 May 2025 sets out the Government’s policy to reduce net migration. The aim is set out as...

Home Office prohibits the passing on of some immigration fees to sponsored workers January 14, 2025

If you are an employer with a sponsorship licence or are thinking about applying for one, you need to be aware of changes from the Home...

Government’s plan to ban rogue employers who flout visa rules December 3, 2024

The Government has announced a new set of measures to crack down on rogue employers who shamelessly ‘repeatedly flout visa rules or...

Back to work (again): Home Office's right to work guidance updated September 25, 2024

The Home Office updated the employer’s guide to right to work checks again on 23 September 2024 (and it is stated to apply to right to...

Making migrant workers repay immigration costs - Is it fair? Is it lawful? August 29, 2024

It is well known that the social care sector is reliant on migrant workers - without them, the sector may collapse. Despite this, the...

A few immigration tweaks – too few to mention? I think not… July 4, 2024

The politicians might have downed tools and joined the campaign trail, however, for Home Office staff, it has been more like business as...

MAC report on the Immigration Salary List - care workers to remain February 27, 2024

On Friday 23 February 2024, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) published its rapid review of the Immigration Salary List (ISL) which...

Updated right to work checks guidance for employers February 15, 2024

UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has produced an updated employer’s guide to right to work checks. This updates the previous guide which...

Key dates for immigration changes 2024 – particularly for the health and social care sector February 5, 2024

Following the Home Secretary’s announcement on 4 December last year about curbing net migration (see Katherine Sinclair’s blog here), we...

Prevention of illegal working - new draft code and starting fine of £45,000 per worker November 28, 2023

All employers should note that that the Home Office has published a new draft code of practice on preventing illegal working which will...

4 October - immigration fees will rise September 18, 2023

I posted at the start of August about the Government's announcement that they were going to raise immigration fees significantly for...

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