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Home Office crackdown on right to work breaches: Alan Lewis comments in People Management
A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting illegal working in food delivery sector saw a number of arrests last month, as...
Aug 15, 2025


Making AI work in HR: Partner, Catherine Wilson gives some thoughts
In the early 19 th century, groups of Yorkshire and Lancashire textile workers, known collectively as Luddites, protested against the...
Aug 13, 2025


Changes to immigration rules will adversely affect the construction industry: Rebecca Tester writes for Construction Update
Our immigration partner, Rebecca Tester writes in Construction Update about the changes to immigration rules which came into force on...
Jul 23, 2025


Impact of the Low Pay Commission's living wage consultation. Eleanor Rogers writes in Employee Benefits magazine
On 30 June 2025, the Low Pay Commission closed its consultation on potential reforms to the National Minimum and Living Wage. Key...
Jul 21, 2025


UK Immigration: Statement of Changes to the Immigration rules 1 July 2025
The UK government announced major changes to the immigration rules which will come into effect on 22 July 2025. The main changes...
Jul 15, 2025


Employment Rights Bill: the latest amendments
On Monday 7 July, the government introduced 64 pages of amendments to the ERB, including (most significantly) a whole new provision on...
Jul 11, 2025


Duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace: the end of the staff social? Eleanor Rogers writes in Solicitors Journal
Seven months on from the introduction of a new positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, Senior...
Jun 30, 2025


The ERB - an update
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. ...
Jun 18, 2025


Return-to-office mandates and the law of unintended consequences
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
Jun 9, 2025
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