Conduct vs Performance: Which is it?
This resource covers the difference between conduct and performance, and why it’s important for employers and HR teams to understand the difference.
Employer’s Guide to Surviving the FIFA World Cup
This resource covers the considerations employers have to make regarding the FIFA World Cup, and the steps they can take to minimise disruption while maintaining staff morale.
Employer’s Guide to Hot Weather in the Workplace
This resource covers the changes to SSP that took effect on 6 April 2026, and how employers should calculate sick pay going forward.
Keeping Holiday Records: New Legal Requirements
This resource covers the legal new duty for employers to keep detailed records of annual leave and holiday pay.
Immigration compliance checklist for 2026
Our quick self-assessment checklist helps you to assess whether your organisation is exposed to immigration compliance risk.
SSP Reforms – Summary and Flowchart
This resource covers the changes to SSP that took effect on 6 April 2026, and how employers should calculate sick pay going forward.
Middle East Uncertainty: Workplace Implications
Recent events in the Middle East have triggered widespread disruption across global energy markets and transport networks.
Employment Facts and Figures Guides
This guide is a reference for all of the useful facts and figures from redundancy pay to the national living wage, from April 2026 to 2027.
Guide to The Employment Rights Act 2025
This guide summarises the key changes in the Act to help you understand and prepare for what’s to come.
Holiday Entitlement Factsheet
This factsheet covers employers’ most frequently asked questions, providing practical guidance and worked examples to help you get it right, every time.
Effective Probations and New Unfair Dismissal Rights
Considering dismissing an employee during their probation but worried about the risks?
Download: Excluding Employees Factsheet
Exclusion in the workplace can be subtle but damaging. From missing out on informal chats to being left off team activities, even small, everyday exclusions can create a hostile work environment and carry serious legal risks. Employment Tribunals treat persistent, targeted exclusion seriously, and
employers who fail to act may face significant payouts – as a recent case has shown.
Supporting Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Embracing neurodiversity in the workplace brings incredible benefits like creativity, innovation, and unique problem-solving skills.
Trade Union Changes in the Employment Rights Act 2025
The Employment Rights Act 2025 (“the Act”) represents the biggest change in employment law for a generation. Many changes relate to Trade Unions and industrial action, with a view to promoting more collective bargaining within workplaces. This guide examines the main changes regarding Trade Unions, when they are likely to come into force, and what practical steps employers should be taking to prepare.
Acas Early Conciliation Changes
Early conciliation (EC) is a pre-claim process designed to help employers and employees resolve workplace disputes before they reach an Employment Tribunal. It’s generally initiated by the employee, who must notify Acas if they are considering bringing a claim.
Once started, an Acas conciliator contacts both parties to explore whether the dispute can be resolved informally. If no agreement is reached, Acas issues a certificate allowing the employee to proceed with a claim.
This mandatory process has been in place since 2014.