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HR horror stories: how to overcome three workplace nightmares
🎃 With Halloween upon us, our partner Donna Clancy has written this article for People Management which outlines three common HR horrors with tips on how to prevent each one from turning into a full-blown nightmare.
How the clocks going back this weekend could affect your wages
Our partner Will Burrows spoke to The Sun and explained how this could impact the pay of the three million UK employees who regularly work night shifts.
Thinking of leaving your employment to launch a rival tech startup?
Bloomsbury Square partner Chris Hogg latest article published by Startups Magazine explores the legal traps that some founders don’t spot until it’s too late.
Employment lawyers explain rules on maximum temperature for workplaces
Our partner Nicola Welchman spoke to The Sun and provided insight on employers’ obligations during the heatwave.
Insights
A settlement agreement is a legally binding contract between an employer and an employee. It typically brings the employee’s employment to an end and waives employee’s right to legal claims in exchange for a financial payment.
A without prejudice conversation takes place for the purposes of settling a dispute between an employer and an employee.
CV embellishments are common. If a professional chooses to modify aspects of their CV to exaggerate their current or past roles, what distinguishes harmless embellishment from illegal misrepresentation? Our partner, Garvey Hanchard, discusses the complexities of lying on your CV.
The Employment Rights Bill made 2024 a major year for employment law in the UK. In this article, Hardeep Kular takes a look at the evolving legal landscape and the key changes which employers and employees should be watching out for in 2025 as well as further anticipated changes in 2026.
The word ex gratia comes from Latin meaning by favour. Often employers will dress up their offer of an ex gratia payment to say that it is within their gift and suggest that they are being generous. Whilst it is accurate that there is a discretion on the part of the employer, the ex gratia offer is not usually about doing you a favour.