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The UK government has published its response to a consultation on sexual harassment in the workplace. The consultation ran from July to October 2019 and was, in part, a response to the #MeToo movement. The aim behind the consultation was to gather ev

This article was co-authored with Dr Gill Maxwell of CIPD for publication on the CIPD website What do HR practitioners need to know and do regarding contractual issues and health and safety law?  The CIPD has supported the people profe

Research has consistently shown that employee stress levels have risen in line with the demands of the twenty-first century workplace. The CIPD publish a survey on health and wellbeing at work, and reported in 2019 that mental ill health was increasi

Each April the government generally makes changes which come into effect with the changing of the tax year, including changes to statutory rates for various employment related payments and the national minimum wage. In this blog we note some of this

Employees being infected with Covid-19 can have a significant impact in the workplace, including lost productivity and the self-isolation of groups of employees who may have been exposed, not to mention the potentially severe impact on the health of

The Supreme Court has handed down its judgement in Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake & Shannon v Rampersad and another (T/A Clifton House Residential Home) [2021] UKSC 8, known as the “Mencap case”, which concerned how employers should be pa