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The Autumn Budget 2024 introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves brings significant changes for UK employers, particularly around National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Insurance contributions (NICs). Below is an outline of the key changes in relation...

Following on from our last blog in May about the enforcement of Employment (Allocation of Tips Act) 2023, we can confirm that the Act was officially enforced at the start of this month (1st October 2024). Under the Act, it will be unlawful for employ...

The long-waited and recently published Employment Rights Bill ('the Bill') introduces substantial reforms that will impact both employers and employees in the UK. On the 10th of October the Government fulfilled its promise to introduce reforms to emp...

From 26th October 2024, all employers in the UK will have a mandatory duty to take 'reasonable steps' to prevent sexual harassment of their employees in the course of their employment. The Equality and Human Rights Commission ('EHRC') have updated th...

The Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement (also known as 'fire and rehire') has been a recent topic for discussion within employment law. This is largely due to a new statutory Code of Practice being introduced - it aims 'to ensure employers take a...

TUPE stands for ‘Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006’ and provides legal protections for employees who are impacted when a business changes hands or where there is a change in service provider, for example, a client e

It’s just a joke! It was just a passing comment! It was intended to be a compliment! Words can have a powerful effect and it is important to note that comments made as a ‘joke’ or even if intended to be a so-called compliment can create a hostile wor

It was a fantastic moment to see Lando Norris win his first ever F1 grand prix recently making it McLaren’s first win in almost three years! With the drama unfolding on the track so too is the drama off-track. Christian Horner who heads up the Red Bu

Separate from the fact that Samsung, Dyson and Specsavers are all large and very successful corporations, what is possibly not as well-known is the fact that these corporations are all family-owned businesses. It is accepted that managing a family bu

Over the next week we will be providing you with a series of short blogs on the key employment law changes that are being introduced at the beginning of next month. This blog will specifically focus on the changes to law in relation to minimum wage t

International Women's Day has been celebrated worldwide for over a century to recognise women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements. This year, our Employment Law team at Miller Samuel Hill Brown organised a panel discussion event

At the beginning of the pandemic (almost four years ago now), workplaces across the nation had to vacate office premises and work from home until told otherwise. This bizarre new way of working on mass completely shocked both employers and employees,