NEWSFLASH: This morning, the High Court has ruled that the Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful. However, eight individual cases of asylum seekers must be reconsidered. This does not mean the asylum seekers have to leave imminently. A court decision…
Right now, we are dealing with a lot of stressed employee clients who are feeling the pressure and whose mental health is taking a nosedive as a result. They’re worrying about anything and everything. That includes what other people around them are and aren’t doing. …
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced a raft of increases to the national minimum and living wages, to take effect from 1 April 2023. They will increase as follows: ✧ Apprentices & 16 to 17 year olds – £4.81 increasing by 9.7% to…
Are new anti-strike laws about to stop or, at least, minimise disruption on strike days? Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has just announced that he is working on a “new tough law” to protect the disruption that results from public sector strikes. He wants to implement…
A recent study found that employees who practised meditation for eight weeks reduced their rates of depression by 46% and anxiety by 31%. As the Friday feeling starts to kick in, and the working week comes to an end, how about you take some time…
After a year long inquiry, the all-party Menopause Parliamentary Group has now reported back to MPs. It has criticised the current support offered to women as “completely inadequate” and described access to hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) as “a postcode lottery”, creating a socio-economic divide between those…
As many of you will know, this Monday (10 October 2022) was World Mental Health Day. The theme, as set by the World Federation for Mental Health, was “Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority”. We’ve chosen to talk about mental health…
It has been just over a month now since our new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, was appointed. We’re already gaining a good understanding of her government’s approach to employment law. Brexit The government is considering proposals to reform employment law via the Retained EU Law…
Please support an online petition available at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623554, which a friend of ours with close links to the palace has launched, seeking to change the name of the “Order of the British Empire” to the “Order of the British Commonwealth”. The Black Lives Matter campaign…
From today, TV cameras are being allowed into criminal trials to show them to the public for the very first time. This is a landmark moment, following on from a new law passed in 2020, which allows the more serious criminal cases in the Crown…