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New Employment Rights Bill – an update

By |2024-12-05T14:35:49+00:00December 2nd, 2024|Employee Contracts, Employment Law and Regulation, Leadership, Wellbeing|

An Amendment Paper on the new Employment Rights Bill (numbering no fewer than 53 pages!) has been tabled. The key proposed changes from the Government include: Extending the time limit for bringing all tribunal claims from 3 months to 6 months. This is a big change, and it was missed out of the original Bill,

Wednesday 6th November is Stress Awareness Day

By |2024-11-06T09:48:39+00:00November 6th, 2024|Employee Wellbeing, Leadership, Wellbeing|

Wednesday 6th November is Stress Awareness Day so we thought we’d share some practical tips on coping with stress which you can use for yourself as well as to help others you are responsible for as an employer/manager. You can also use these ideas to help a colleague who you think might be struggling. New

Worker Protection Act: how should employers prepare?

By |2024-08-29T11:05:16+01:00August 29th, 2024|Employee Contracts, Employment Law and Regulation|

From October, new legislation will require businesses to take ‘reasonable’ steps to protect their employees from sexual harassment at work. Employers will have a duty to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent sexual harassment of their employees, under new legislation expected to come into force on 26 October.  Under the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010)

UK General Election: Legislation Update

By |2024-05-30T11:30:42+01:00May 30th, 2024|Employee Contracts, Employment Law and Regulation|

As you will all be aware, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a snap election for 4 July 2024, putting to bed months of speculation surrounding the future of the current UK Government. Legislation The election has called into question the status of legislation currently going through parliament, and what this means for the future

Employment Law Updates: Spring 2024

By |2024-03-27T17:37:22+00:00March 27th, 2024|Employment Law and Regulation|

We hope you are all well and looking forward to Easter Weekend. Is it really almost April! April also marks the start of the employment law changes we have been helping our GMA HR clients to prepare for since the beginning of this year. We’ve worked on the changes to your handbook policies, and we

New Beginnings…

By |2024-01-31T00:56:20+00:00January 8th, 2024|Employment Law and Regulation|

A very Happy New Year to you all from all of us at Greig Melville Associates Limited! Looking back, I think that if the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that as employers, we have learned to be agile; we’ve surprised ourselves with our capacity to  change our traditional thinking as leaders.  We’ve embraced

New Laws: Part-Year and Irregular Workers

By |2024-03-18T22:10:04+00:00December 18th, 2023|Employment Law and Regulation|

Key Changes to the Law Following two consultations which took place earlier in the year in which holiday entitlement and pay calculations were discussed, the Government has now published its response. This means that they have now laid out the proposals for key changes to the law on holiday pay and working time regulations which

Supporting a healthy work-life balance for your teams

By |2024-03-18T22:41:21+00:00September 1st, 2023|Employment Law and Regulation|

How many of us have seen our work-life balance take a dive in the last three or so years and an upsurge in our mental and physical health issues, decreased productivity, and constant stress? Quite a few, I think! No one in the workplace is immune from this issue, and if we are unable to

Quiet Quitting: A Guide For Employers

By |2024-01-31T00:38:35+00:00June 30th, 2023|Employment Law and Regulation|

We have been noticing a growing trend with employees who have disengaged with their employers doing a disappearing act – simply not turning up for work and being uncontactable - which is incredibly frustrating, disruptive, and time-consuming for management.   It so happened that one of our regular HR publications popped into our inbox yesterday, highlighting

Cost of living issues and pay rises

By |2022-03-10T21:17:05+00:00March 10th, 2022|Employee Contracts, Employment Law and Regulation|

The post-pandemic economic climate promises to be a difficult one for employees and businesses across the board, with the cost of living rising dramatically. The latest inflation figures are at 5.5 per cent, with the cost of many things – including energy – rising dramatically, yet annualised wage growth sitting at just 4.2 per

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