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Do I have to give people the day off on 8th May 2023?

The Prime Minister has announced that the 8th of May 2023 will be a Bank Holiday in the UK to mark King Charles |||'s coronation. Rishi...

Understanding Carer's Leave: What You Need to Know about the New Legal Rules

Trish Attah

Apr 43 min read

Understanding Carer's Leave: What You Need to Know about the New Legal Rules

The new Carer's Leave Act 2023 comes into force on 6th April 2024, this blog provides more information about what the new Act means for...

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Upcoming UK Employment Law Changes in 2024

Trish Attah

Dec 28, 20234 min read

Upcoming UK Employment Law Changes in 2024

2024 will bring some interesting Employment Law changes, check out our rundown of the top four to look out for as either an employee or...

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What’s the Law on Working in Hot Weather in the UK? Know Your Rights and Responsibilities

Trish Attah

Aug 10, 20234 min read

What’s the Law on Working in Hot Weather in the UK? Know Your Rights and Responsibilities

As temperatures rise during what might be some scorching summer months, it's essential for both employers and employees in the UK to be...

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How will the new Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act impact businesses?

Trish Attah

Jul 20, 20233 min read

How will the new Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act impact businesses?

It feels like we've had more new legislation that we can shake a stick at recently but it's awesome to see that the new Employment...

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How will the proposed Bullying and Respect at Work Bill impact businesses?

Trish Attah

Jul 17, 20233 min read

How will the proposed Bullying and Respect at Work Bill impact businesses?

Bullying and harassment is never ok whether inside or outside of the workplace. According to studies, approximately 1 in 4 employees...

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Trish Attah

Jul 5, 20233 min read

What is Whistleblowing?

Early in 2022, a nurse sacked for speaking out about a patient's death won a record £460,000 payout after the tribunal found that there...

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Increases the National minimum wage and statutory payments in 2023

Trish Attah

Jan 4, 20231 min read

Increases the National minimum wage and statutory payments in 2023

2023 will see increases to a number of statutory payments as well as the largest ever increase in the National Minimum Wage that we've...

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Trish Attah

Nov 6, 20223 min read

Do I have to give people the day off on 8th May 2023?

The Prime Minister has announced that the 8th of May 2023 will be a Bank Holiday in the UK to mark King Charles |||'s coronation. Rishi...

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How does the new holiday pay ruling affect your business?

Trish Attah

Oct 24, 20222 min read

How does the new holiday pay ruling affect your business?

According to People Management, a recent survey found that 88% of employers don't understand how the Supreme Court ruling earlier this...

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Trish Attah

Oct 20, 20222 min read

The Retained EU Law Bill

The Retained EU Law Bill was first discussed in Parliament in September 2022 and seems to have done a good job of sneaking under the...

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IR35 Reforms, what do the recent changes mean for your business?

Trish Attah

Oct 3, 20222 min read

IR35 Reforms, what do the recent changes mean for your business?

Kwasi Kwarteng recently announced plans to repeal the controversial reforms to off-payroll rules — known as IR35 . It's important to...

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Right-To-Work Checks are Changing, Are you ready?

Trish Attah

Sep 26, 20223 min read

Right-To-Work Checks are Changing, Are you ready?

According to a recent article in Personnel Today, a survey conducted by Xydus found that 48% of businesses are not ready for the upcoming...

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Trish Attah

Sep 12, 20221 min read

Upcoming Bank Holiday 19th Sept 2022

We've put together a quick guide on the upcoming bank holiday which you can see here; https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tap-hr_do-you-have-...

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Trish Attah

Aug 9, 20221 min read

Interesting Cases

Long Covid- T Burke v Turning Point Scotland: 4112457/2021 was one of the first cases this year where having long covid was classed as a...

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Recent judgement on calculating holiday for part year workers

Trish Attah

Jul 28, 20221 min read

Recent judgement on calculating holiday for part year workers

What do you think about this recent Supreme Court ruling: Holiday pay for part-year staff should not be pro-rated...

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Employment Law Changes from April 2022- 4 Key things to be aware of & upcoming changes

Trish Attah

May 24, 20222 min read

Employment Law Changes from April 2022- 4 Key things to be aware of & upcoming changes

In April and October every year key changes in employment law are made. Seeing as though we only launched in May 2022, below is an update...

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