10/10/2025 5:58:29 PM Case update: share options, settlement agreements and keeping your promises By Jessica Mann For many senior employee and executives, share options and other equity awards are a significant part of their remuneration package. When...
10/10/2025 5:51:30 PM Navigating the new sick leave landscape: Legal and practical implications By Netanya Cramer Sickness absence in the UK has reached a 15-year high, with employees now taking an average of 9.4 days off per year. The CIPD’s...
6/12/2024 2:20:58 PM Manifesto watch: Liberal Democrat proposals for employment law By Alexandra Mizzi As the General Election campaign gathers pace, the parties are releasing their formal manifestos this week. So far the Liberal Democrats...
3/13/2024 9:35:43 AM Don't Mind the Gap? By Hannah Capstick CIPD's Pay, performance and transparency report 2024 Last month the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) published its...
2/23/2024 1:49:16 PM A culture of speaking up: why whistleblower protection is key to ESG By Alexandra Mizzi Effective whistleblowing policies are an essential part of any business' ESG strategy. An organisation which seeks to operate ethically...
12/8/2023 5:05:03 PM Redundancy: how much consultation makes it fair? By Alexandra Mizzi In a challenging economy, with interest rate hikes and continued productivity concerns, it's perhaps unsurprising that many employers are...
12/8/2023 1:31:22 PM New rules on holidays: a great package deal for employers? By Alexandra Mizzi For more than a decade, holiday accrual and pay has been a vexed issue for employers. A string of European Court of Justice and UK cases...
5/12/2023 7:39:43 AM The Retained EU Law Bill - not disappearing into the sunset just yet By Alexandra Mizzi The Government announced last month that a key aspect of the Retained EU Law Bill is to be dropped - but some uncertainty remains. The...
3/28/2023 2:12:42 PM A new leave entitlement to care for children in neonatal care units By Annie Long The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill, which has just completed its second reading at the House of Lords, will introduce a new type of...
12/7/2022 9:44:47 AM Handling redundancies: lessons from Silicon Valley By Alexandra Mizzi Since the deal completed on 27 October, Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has provided an interesting case study for HR teams and...
12/6/2022 3:59:04 PM How to deal with mistakes in collective agreements By Sam Murray-Hinde For those with unionised workforces, what do you do if there's a mistake in a collective agreement which isn't expressly intended to be...
8/23/2022 3:20:43 PM Closing time? Hospitality businesses sounding the alarm By Alexandra Mizzi Jane Amphlett Hospitality and leisure businesses are facing a perfect storm as soaring energy bills, staff shortages and inflation bite. A report in...