Creating Positive Relationships: An Employer’s Guide for Parent Mental Health Day
As the first month of 2024 draws to a close, 27th January 2024 should be one final date to mark in everybody’s calendar! Parent Mental Health Day is celebrated on this date to encourage conversations and connections about the mental health of parents across the UK. Stem4 (a UK charity that aim to support […]
National Sickie Day: An Employer’s Guide to Dealing with Absenteeism
It is a well-known fact that after a few weeks of festive fun, what follows is often described as the dreaded ‘January blues’. Whilst this may simply be a social term used to describe the widespread decline in mood after the Christmas season, some research has shown that there are material commercial consequences for businesses […]
New Minimum Wage Rates to Take Effect From April 2024
The Government has announced that it has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommendation on the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) to apply from April 2024. The Low Pay Commission was established as an independent body to advise the Government on the minimum wage rates. This will be the biggest ever increase to […]
Fire and Re-Hire or “Dismissal and Re-Engagement”
In March 2022, P&O Ferries faced significant public backlash and outcry following their decision to dismiss 800 members of staff while failing to follow a proper redundancy process. The decision was met with fairly universal disdain given the way in which it was handled. The scandal faced much criticism from the British Government as well […]
New Duty on Employers to Prevent Sexual Harassment
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill received Royal Assent last month on 26th October 2023. The Bill upon its inception will become the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 (‘the Act’). The Act will amend the existing Equality Act 2010, with the aim of providing additional protection for employees […]
UK Employers Face Holiday Pay Claims After Supreme Court Ruling
A landmark decision by the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has held that employees can claim for historic underpayments of holiday pay even if there are gaps of three or more months within a series of deductions. Following the Judgment delivered in Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland v Agnew, employers must consider […]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: An Employer’s Guide
Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the UK. Every year, the month of October is dedicated to breast cancer awareness. How are employees with cancer protected? Under Schedule 1 of the Equality Act 2010 (the Act), a diagnosis of cancer automatically qualifies as a disability. This means that if […]
World Mental Health Day: An Employer’s Guide
World Mental Health Day is held on 10 October every year, with this year’s theme being ‘mental health is a universal human right’. The aim is to raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect mental health as an essential human right. How does the workplace affect mental health? For many of us, work […]
International Day of Sign Languages
23rd September 2023 marks International Day of Sign Languages. The date of International Day of Sign Languages was chosen in 2018 to coincide and honour the launch of the World Federation of the Deaf. This date also falls within International Week of the Deaf. Rose Ayling-Ellis was the first deaf contestant on Strictly Come Dancing […]
FLEX
The Employment team at Miller Samuel Hill Brown are excited to introduce FLEX – our new flexible retainer programme. Flex combines the benefits of both our hourly rate and retained services, and offers a mix of retained services supported by the option to escalate to an experienced solicitor at a 15% discount on their hourly […]