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A HEALTHY EMPLOYEE IS A MORE PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEE!  Almost two-thirds of our waking lives are spent at work. This makes the workplace one of the best arenas to influence positive health and wellbeing. Why, then, does the cost of employee ill health continue to...

HMRC collected £102m in tax as a result of investigations into false self employment in 2015/2016. Over the past few years, HMRC has focussed a significant number of its investigations on firms where disguised employment is most common. Disguised employment occurs...

Work related stress Campaign One of the Health and Safety Executive campaigns for 2017 is for work related stress While it is important that businesses have a stress risk assessment in place one of the key areas is the management of employees who are suffering work...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Flexible working after Maternity Leave In Whiteman v CPS Interiors Ltd and others, the employment tribunal held that an employer properly handled a new mother’s rejected flexible working request to work from home. Ms Whiteman, a designer for a company...

Shared Parental Leave In the first employment tribunal case to address a discrimination complaint over shared parental leave (SPL), a father has been awarded almost £30,000 after his employer refused to pay his shared parental leave at the same rate as his wife who...

Brexit harassment  Since Brexit there have been a number of race-related harassment in the workplace. Employers need to be aware of the risks arising from such harassment and, where possible, should try to address the risks. Race-related comments made which are...