The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023
There will be a number of changes to flexible working arrangements in the workplace as the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 has completed its passage through Parliament and now awaits Royal Assent. The main changes are: It hasn’t changed the following:
Does AI matter? That’s Artificial Intelligence, not artificial insemination!
The faking of photographs has been around for some time, but faking voices is becoming a sinister development for fraudsters. Take this example: In late 2019, a UK energy firm’s CEO was purportedly on the phone with his boss at the German parent company. The boss asked him to send €220,000 to a supplier in […]
Strikes and Agency Workers
The Government revoked legislation that prevented workers on strike from being replaced by agency workers without consultation. This has been ruled unlawful by the High Court in (on the application of ASLEF and others) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Their Lordships ruled that the Secretary of State had: The High Court confirmed that […]
Disciplinary Procedure
The HR wisdom is that a manager must hold a disciplinary meeting with an employee, even with allegations of gross misconduct, before deciding to dismiss. This latest case from the EAT calls that into question, but it only succeeded because the employee was offered and accepted an appeal meeting. Failure to meet to discuss the […]