Sep 29, 2025 | Employment Law, Marie’s Blog
Zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) are a controversial, but certainly not new, feature of the UK labour market. While they offer flexibility for some employers and workers, for many they represent insecurity, unpredictability and a lack of basic protections. Recent data and...
Jul 7, 2025 | Employment Law
A change in business needs can result in cost reductions and having to run a business more efficiently. This could be a consequence of company performance, financial challenges or changes in the market sector, but whatever the reason a business finds itself in this...
Jun 30, 2025 | Employment Law
Employment rights during pregnancy and when looking after a newborn baby are a concern for impending and new parents under any circumstances. Financial worries and job security can impact on a pregnant woman’s health, a new mother’s health, the health of a newborn...
Aug 23, 2024 | Employment Law, Kieran's blog
If you are considering submitting an Employment Tribunal claim against your employer or you are an employer who has had an Employment Tribunal claim submitted against them, you should seek out specialist employment law advice as early as possible. Broadly, the things...
Aug 6, 2024 | Employment Law
A hot topic of conversation following the labour manifesto (Labour’s plan to make work pay – Delivering a new deal for working people) (New Deal), is that workers will not be “…waiting up to two years to access basic rights of protection against unfair dismissal…”. On...
Apr 24, 2024 | Employment Law
If you’ve been dismissed by reason of redundancy and your employer has then given someone else a job, you may have a claim for unfair dismissal. This would be because the reason for your dismissal wasn’t redundancy, it was only labelled redundancy, so that your...