Employment Law

In June 2022, thousands of workers at 70 UK companies started trialling a four-day working week to analyse how employees respond to having an extra day off work.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral is to take place on Monday 19 September 2022, which has been confirmed as a bank holiday.  We consider below some of those questions we are frequently asked in relation to bank holidays.

In 2020, the Department of Transport reported that 37% of people used the trains to commute to work. With the post-pandemic increase in demand for employees to start coming back to the office, the planned National Rail strikes this summer will have an impact on thousands of employees and their employers.

Our latest employment law blog explains holiday entitlement rights, including how much notice is required when booking annual leave, whether an employer can cancel leave after it has been approved, and rights to unpaid leave.

The government has announced that COVID-19 vaccinations are to become mandatory for care home staff. Staff are to be allowed a grace period in which to have the vaccine or face being redeployed away from frontline care or losing their job.

A final written warning is a serious disciplinary process whether you are the employer or the employee, and is usually a precursor to dismissing a member of staff if their behaviour or performance does not improve.

Whatever the reason, having your contract terminated at a company is never a nice feeling. You might associate getting fired with poor performance, misconduct or lengthy absence – which are some of the more common reasons – but there are a range of scenarios that can lead to dismissal and in some cases, a dismissal can seem to have come from out of nowhere; for something that you were unaware was a wrong-doing and sackable offence.

Constructive dismissal may arise where issues relating to an employee’s job, working conditions or are dealt with so badly by the employer, that it amounts to a breach of contract including where the employee loses all trust or confidence in the employer.

After some negotiation, you’ve accepted a settlement agreement from your employer. In most cases, a settlement agreement will have been offered to end an employment contract, without conducting formal disciplinary or grievance procedures.

Settlement agreements are a tool often used to deal with workplace problems, which can help bring employment to an end in a mutually acceptable way. Although what the settlement agreement will consist of it is primarily up to the employer, the main aspect is most often a financial payment to the employee.