12/17/2025 2:00:16 PM Employment Rights Bill completed: Ping Pong is over By Frances Rollin The Employment Rights Bill completed its progress through Parliament yesterday when the Lords accepted the final point of contention...
12/16/2025 1:08:28 PM Stronger systems for 2026: How in-house teams can close the accountability gap By James Evison Hannah Ford Kerry Garcia Lucy Barnes +1 more... Show less New rules on fraud, ID checks, employment rights and immigration are reshaping what good governance looks like. At S&B Activate 2025,...
12/8/2025 12:28:51 PM Why trust is the real test of AI and how in-house lawyers can build it By Charles Maurice Beverley Flynn Hannah Ford AI depends on trust. Based on a panel discussion at our annual GC event, S&B Activate 2025, this article provides ideas for how legal...
12/5/2025 3:43:27 PM Even more unfair dismissal changes! By Abigail McKean Following its slightly cryptic announcement on changes to unfair dismissal compensation last week (details here: Unexpected developments...
12/2/2025 4:29:26 PM More unfair dismissal changes? By Abigail McKean More developments appear to be afoot on the Employment Rights Bill. Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, is reportedly due to...
11/28/2025 4:42:04 PM NICs changes for salary sacrifice pension contributions By Andy Williams Wednesday’s budget contained little from an employment law perspective, save for the news that national insurance contribution (NIC)...
11/28/2025 4:35:43 PM Employee sentenced to prison term for fabricated tribunal claims By Frances Rollin The High Court recently sentenced a former Commerzbank employee to 20 months’ imprisonment for contempt of court. The employee had...
11/28/2025 2:52:03 PM Unexpected developments on the Employment Rights Bill By Abigail McKean The government announced yesterday that the qualifying period for “ordinary” unfair dismissal claims would be reduced to six months (from...
11/20/2025 4:03:12 PM TUPE protections disapplied by provisional liquidation – Secretary of State v Sahonta By Lucy Trott The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed in the Secretary of State for Business and Trade v Sahonta [2025] EAT 166 that some of the...
11/14/2025 11:45:16 AM What’s your next move? Insights from S&B Activate 2025 By Beverley Flynn Gustaf Duhs Charles Maurice Most legal events tell you what’s changed. This one was about what to do next. S&B Activate 2025 brought together business leaders,...
11/13/2025 11:38:33 AM Prevention of harassment: McDonalds extends its agreement with the EHRC By Abigail McKean The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has extended an agreement with McDonalds requiring it to take steps to prevent workplace...
11/12/2025 4:23:43 PM Significant extension of the right to work and civil penalty regime – consultation launched By Kerry Garcia Under the current law, in order to obtain a statutory defence against a civil penalty for illegal working, employers must carry out...