In the early 19 th  century, groups of Yorkshire and Lancashire textile workers, known collectively as Luddites, protested against the...

Our immigration partner,  Rebecca Tester  writes in  Construction Update  about the changes to immigration rules which came into force on...

On 30 June 2025, the Low Pay Commission closed its consultation on potential reforms to the National Minimum and Living Wage.  Key...

The UK government announced major changes to the immigration rules which will come into effect on 22 July 2025.   The main changes...

On Monday 7 July, the government introduced  64 pages of amendments to the ERB,  including (most significantly) a whole new provision on...

Seven months on from the introduction of a new positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, Senior...

On 18 June 2025, the House of Lords is considering the Employment Rights Bill, in the last of 10 Committee Stage readings of the Bill.   ...

New research from King’s College London about working life in the UK has found that less than half the people surveyed would comply with a full time return-to-office mandate, with almost 10% stating that this would compel them to leave their job. Working patterns borne of necessity during the Covid pandemic are, it seems, very hard to shift. As companies across the UK roll out return-to-office mandates, every week seems to bring new edicts from the UK’s big employers desperat

A man working as a digital production manager for the Financial Services Compensation Scheme has lost his claim for unfair dismissal and...