The Employment Rights Bill may not come into effect until next year but, now is the time for HR to consider the implications.
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Thinking Time: HR needs to find space to consider The Employment Rights Bill
Can staff now be forced back to the office?
Headlines have been blowing up this week with several big businesses making policy changes to force its workforce back into the office. A topic that often results in a heated debate.
Fear of retaliation: why whistleblowers hesitate
The financial sector must do more to protect those who choose to speak up. Commentary from Will Burrows
Employees more likely to report sexual misconduct than malpractice
More than half of employees (51%) would not feel safe reporting that their company was breaking the law, research by Bloomsbury Square Employment Law found in October. Of these, 45% cited fear of losing their job as the reason.
Firing a whistleblower – legally
Chris Hogg outlines the law regarding dismissal of a whistleblower for reasons other than blowing the whistle
Insights
In May 2021, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) published a first of its kind report systematically mapping the incidence of conflict across UK workplaces, titled ‘Estimating the Costs of Workplace Conflict’.
Of all the employment laws passed in the last thirty years, one of the most important was the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and the corresponding introduction of protections for whistleblowers against detriment or dismissal …
A conversation has started about how women in the workplace are treated when they start to experience menopausal symptoms. This conversation is long overdue, and slowly but surely …
