The Home Office has opened a major consultation on plans to overhaul the UK settlement system—proposals that could reshape long-term migration routes, employer sponsorship strategies, and the expectations of anyone currently working toward Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). These changes, set out in the policy paper   A Fairer Pathway to Settlemen t , are among the most far-reaching in years. In our latest episode of The Employment Law Podcast, our immigration partners, Alex F

The Employment Rights Bill should receive Royal Assent this month.  On 28 October 2025, the House of Lords considered the House of Commons’ amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.  The Lords proposed changes to: 1.       zero-hours clauses (amending their own amendment); 2.       the day-one right to unfair dismissal protections (insisting on a 6-month qualifying period, rather than day-one); and 3.       industrial action ballot thresholds (disagreeing with the proposal t

The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) was published 365 days ago.  It has been billed as the biggest shake-up to employment law rights in this...

A recent investigation has exposed major flaws in the UK’s system for enforcing employment tribunal awards. The government backed scheme...

The criticism of HR, levied by the Sunday Times as a bloated, obstructive force in UK business, overlooks a deeper truth: HR has grown...

Our Managing Partner, John Hayes considers the use of AI in generating legal responses, and cites recent personal experience of...

A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting illegal working in food delivery sector saw a number of arrests last month, as...

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

Australian tech giant Atlassian is under scrutiny after its CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes delivered news of 150 job cuts via a pre-recorded...