As we celebrate our third birthday as a firm, we are struck by this quote from a parenting manual, “It's very common for 3 year olds to push boundaries or act out on occasion. Tantrums and meltdowns, as well as asserting their independence by saying…

Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 The Act will provide employees with the right to take up to 12 weeks paid leave where their baby requires specialist neonatal care following birth…

The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 The Act will introduce a new…

Protect (the whistleblowing charity) has announced a 23% increase in calls to its advice line in 2023 compared with 2022. The largest percentage…

We last reported on menopause in the workplace in our January 2023…

This month we were intrigued to read about the case of Stephen Lwanga…

The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 From 6 April 2024, employees who are pregnant or returning from maternity, adoption or shared parental leave …

Expected to come into force 6 April 2024 From day one of employment, employees will be entitled to request flexible working (removing the current need for 6 months’ service before a request is made…

The EAT has reached a rather lenient decision in the case of Leaney v Loughborough University.
The case involved an academic who had worked for Loughborough University for over 40 years. From January 2019 until June 2020…

We posted recently about Mr Borg-Neal, the individual who secured a 6-figure compensation award against Lloyds Banking Group plc when the Tribunal decided he had been unfairly dismissed for using the ‘N’ word…

Some of us may have experienced a sense of déjà vu on learning of the Government’s announcement on 29th January of a consultation into the structure and level of proposed fees for using…

You may recall that in July last year, we reported on the Flexible Working Bill which will make changes to the current flexible working regime which has been in place since June 2014. Read it here. At that time…

Surely, if an employer dismisses an employee for using the 'N' word at work, that dismissal will be fair, right? Not necessarily, as we saw in the case in Mr Borg-Neal and Lloyds Banking Group plc …

2023 has been a year of extremely encouraging growth for Horsfield Menzies. We doubled our previous year’s turnover and opened an astonishing 376 new matters. Our business was given a significant boost in the summer…

The UK government's new immigration plan, set to be implemented in spring 2024, includes the following key changes:

In what has been billed as arguably the most significant change in holiday legislation since the advent of the Working Time Regulations in 1998, the government has announced…

No ‘holiday’ for Butlins – engaging in a grievance or appeal procedure ‘not likely’ to affirm the employment contract in a constructive dismissal case. Ms Brooks had worked for Leisure Employment Services…

The Government has this month taken two significant steps in its continuing campaign to reduce the effectiveness of industrial action.
Firstly, the Government…

22nd November 2023 is Equal Pay Day, a national campaign led by the Fawcett Society in the UK. According to Fawcett, his is the day when, because of the gender pay gap, women overall in the UK…

The Supreme Court has ruled that Deliveroo riders are not workers in an “employment relationship” for the purposes of European human rights law…