7/9/2025 1:14:37 PM Update: new proposals in the Employment Rights Bill By Alexandra Mizzi July is usually the time when people start drifting away on summer holidays, exhausted teachers decide to put on a film and colleagues...
7/1/2025 4:10:16 PM Update: Timeline for the Employment Rights Bill's reforms By Alexandra Mizzi The Employment Rights Bill, currently progressing through the House of Lords, is one of the biggest shake-ups of employment law for...
6/25/2025 9:40:40 AM Redundancies and alternative employment: case update By Alexandra Mizzi With political turmoil and economic uncertainty across the world, many businesses have been making redundancies over the past year or so,...
6/23/2025 3:47:25 PM Employment Tribunal delays: what these mean for employers By Alexandra Mizzi The days of the Employment Tribunals offering a swift and simple resolution of employment disputes are long gone. Although the overall...
3/7/2025 4:57:21 PM Remote and hybrid working: is the tide turning? By Alexandra Mizzi The House of Lords Committee on Home-based Working has recently launched a call for evidence to explore the effects and future...
11/29/2024 9:00:32 AM Mistletoe and fines: office Christmas parties and the duty to prevent sexual harassment By Alexandra Mizzi In the fast-changing world of HR and employment law, few things are a constant. But one annual tradition which is still going strong is...
11/1/2024 9:08:35 AM No relief for employers: collective redundancies, fire and rehire and interim relief By Alexandra Mizzi Having published a 158 page Employment Rights Bill containing some of the most significant interventions in the UK labour market for...
8/29/2024 5:02:45 PM Equal pay: is retail Next in the firing line? By Alexandra Mizzi An equal pay claim brought by over 3,500 Next retail staff has resulted in victory for the claimants and a possible £30m compensation...
7/18/2024 4:33:24 PM King's speech: employment law changes By Alexandra Mizzi As trailed before the General Election, the new Government has wasted no time in starting its ambitious programme of employment law...
5/27/2022 5:58:10 PM Trans rights, freedom of expression and the workplace By Alexandra Mizzi Over the last few years, the public discussion over trans rights has become an increasingly fraught. A couple of recent Employment...
5/13/2022 12:50:13 PM The bald truth: hair loss and workplace harassment By Alexandra Mizzi Whatever your view on so-called workplace "banter", calling someone a "bald ****" at work clearly crosses more than a few lines. But is...
1/19/2022 3:21:15 PM Beyond a joke: are employers liable for practical jokes at work? By Alexandra Mizzi Practical jokes rarely seem funny by the time they wind up in Court. The "joke" in a recent case considered by the Court of Appeal...