Between July 2024 and May 2025, UK immigration enforcement teams carried out 9,000 raids, 48 per cent more than the year before. These raids resulted in 6,410 arrests, an increase of 51 per cent from the previous year. In August, the Home Office committed a £5m funding boost for immigration enforcement teams to “ramp up
October is ADHD Awareness Month. But beyond this, awareness of ADHD has been growing steadily for the past few years as more people are either being diagnosed with the condition or identifying that they may have it. As employers you should expect to have employees with the condition in your teams, and it’s important that
Nearly 500 employers have been fined more than £10m by HMRC for failing to pay the national minimum wage to their employees. The penalties come as part of the government effort to send a “clear message” that it will not tolerate companies that “shortchange their workers”. Around 42,000 employees will be reimbursed a combined £6m
In September 2025, the Government announced a plan to introduce a requirement for all workers to be able to produce a digital ID to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. The scheme is intended to combat illegal working. The Prime Minister confirmed that digital IDs will be mandatory as a means of proving
Usually, an employment relationship ends because the employee resigns to go to another job or retires. But sometimes it ends because of dismissal or redundancy. With A.I. in the mix, we have new twists on both the reason for discipline or dismissal (such as an employee misusing A.I. tools) and the process of dismissal (such
Is using an A.I. detector lawful? It’s 100% legal to use A.I. tools for shortlisting. Using a tool like GPTZero is lawful if you treat its analysis as one piece of evidence, you stay transparent, you keep a human in the loop, and you audit for bias. Problems arise when the detector becomes a ‘black-box
AI and Recruitment: Part 1 Did you know that 46% of applicants use AI to fill in application forms? * A.I. tools will rewrite CVs in flawless prose; it will quantify achievements they people ‘forgot’ to mention and even fill employment gaps with plausible explanations. A.I. can draft cover letters that mirror an employer’s corporate
The UK government has released a roadmap (Tuesday 1 July) for implementing the employment rights bill, setting out a phased timetable for delivering what it claims will be the most significant upgrade to worker protections in decades. Here are the key dates we know of so far: First steps: restoring union rights and worker protections
In today’s business landscape, understanding how to avoid an employment tribunal is crucial for small business owners and managers. This week’s bulletin is the first in a series of providing you with key advice on how to manage employee relations effectively and mitigate the risk of potential legal disputes. Employment tribunals are judicial bodies that hear
National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) Age Rate from 1 April 2025 NLW for workers aged 21 and over £12.21 NMW for workers aged 18–20 £10 Young workers rate for workers aged 16–17 £7.55 Apprentices under 19, or over 19 and in the first year of the apprenticeship £7.55 Accommodation offset (daily)
