by | May 31, 2023 | All Articles, Commercial Law, Employees, Employers, Employment Law articles, Karen, LGBT
Gender discrimination in the workplace still remains a real and rife issue, with many women experiencing sexual harassment, job insecurity and lower pay compared with their male colleagues. Discrimination is described as a...
by | May 31, 2023 | All Articles, Commercial Law, Employees, Employers, Employment Law articles, Karen Holden
As we see the 12th rise of interest rate in a row by the Bank of England (its highest rate since 2008) and bills still increasing resilience and budgeting is ever more an issue for businesses. We are now seeing waves of redundancies, the most recent of which is...
by | May 2, 2023 | All Articles, Commercial Law, Employees, Employers, Employment Law articles, Working Mum's Zone
In the light of proposed new legislation on women’s rights when pregnant or on maternity leave, lawyer Karen Holden outlines your rights if you are made redundant while pregnant. The current economic climate is precarious and it is highly likely we will see more...
by | Oct 3, 2022 | All Articles, Commercial Law, Employees, Employers, Employment Law articles
Employment Law will be changed radically by 2023 as the Government publishes the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022-23 Brexit has left us in the U.K. with various ‘retained EU law’, originally derived from the EU it currently remains in...
by | Jul 14, 2022 | All Articles, Commercial Law, Commercial Property, Corporate, Covid-19, Employees, Employers, Employment Law articles
How does a business thrive if its staff are sick, quarantining or sat on long NHS waiting lists, as employers may clearly want to support its employees but it also has to juggle the business needs. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, personal health and wellbeing have...
by | Jul 5, 2022 | All Articles, Business Start-Up, Commercial Law, Employees, Employers, Employment Law articles
Technology is constantly evolving as more and more innovation is introduced into the market. Over the last 50 years, we have seen massive technological advances, from the widespread use of colour TV to the invention of the internet and cryptoassets. This fast-paced,...