Legislation

As the impact of the Employment Rights Act starts to be felt, Laura Darnley, Partner, Ward Hadaway discusses how HR needs to prepare for the next wave of change. The Employment Rights Act 2025 is more than a legislative update: it is a comprehensive A–Z overhaul of UK employment law, affecting everything from agency workers […]

Jools Barrow-Read, Founder, RedWizard Consulting discusses forthcoming changes to government policy on tax and the extended workforce. When HMRC introduces joint and several liability for umbrella company tax failures in April 2026, many organisations will discover they have a significant blind spot. Nobody is actually accountable for their extended workforce. This isn’t just a tax […]

Recent research from LinkedIn has given an interesting insight into the issue of hybrid, flexible and remote working.

Employing people is not simple. From role to role, sector to sector diverse laws, rules, regulations and guidance can apply. As employment models become more diverse the rules governing how those models should work seem to become more numerous.

The Employment Rights Bill may not come into effect until next year but, now is the time for HR to consider the implications.

HR policies exist so organisations can manage the way they employ people. Sometimes these policies will ensure the company complies to legal requirements – how people should be employed, paid and so on.

Almost all of 50 of the UK's biggest employers questioned in a recent BBC survey have said they do not plan to bring staff back to the office full-time