• Understanding the earned settlement consultation- guidance for sponsoring employers

In November 2025, the Home Office unveiled the much anticipated plans for a new earned settlement framework - arguably one of the most significant shifts in UK immigration policy in decades.

• Beating the January blues | 8 tips for boosting morale and productivity at work

Discover quick tips for HR professionals and employers to boost staff wellbeing and create a positive workplace culture during the January Blues.

• Download: Short Guide to Disciplinaries and Investigations

This short guide will help take the complexity out of disciplinaries and investigations. We’ll cover the basics of when disciplinary action might be needed, how to carry outa fair process, and how to deal with common challenges like delays, un-cooperative employees, and retaliatory grievances.

• Guide: TUPE Checklist

The Employment Rights Bill introduces key reforms to redundancy and collective consultation rules. Here’s what’s changing, why it matters, and how to prepare.

• Employment Rights Act 2025 | What employers need to know

• Guide to Getting Ready for Redundancy Reforms

The Employment Rights Bill introduces key reforms to redundancy and collective consultation rules. Here’s what’s changing, why it matters, and how to prepare.

• Short Guide to Six-Month Dismissal Protection

With several changes for employers and HR professionals to digest, here’s a simple overview of the upcoming changes to unfair dismissal rules, when they're coming, and the steps you can take to navigate new laws smoothly and confidently.

• Certificates of Sponsorship | A guide for employers

• Breaking down the Budget 2025 | Key takeaways for employers

Hiring skilled talent from overseas can be complex, but obtaining a UK sponsor licence is the first step to recruiting migrant workers legally and confidently. This guide explains how businesses can become licensed sponsors, including eligibility requirements, licence types, application steps, and ongoing responsibilities.

• How to become a licensed sponsor for migrant workers in the UK

Hiring skilled talent from overseas can be complex, but obtaining a UK sponsor licence is the first step to recruiting migrant workers legally and confidently. This guide explains how businesses can become licensed sponsors, including eligibility requirements, licence types, application steps, and ongoing responsibilities.

• UK immigration update: higher English language standards for skilled worker visas

One of the key requirements for obtaining a Skilled Worker visa is proving knowledge of the English language. This ensures that applicants can effectively communicate in a UK work environment. Currently, applicants must demonstrate that they can read, write, speak, and understand English to at least level B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

• Day One Rights | Your Guide to Managing Risk Under the Employment Rights Bill

With several changes for employers and HR professionals to digest, here’s a simple overview of what’s coming, when, and the steps you can take to navigate new laws smoothly and confidently

• Duty to prevent sexual harassment | Almost half of UK employers still not compliant

• Unconscious bias in the workplace | Lessons from The Celebrity Traitors

• Stress in the UK workplace: its impact and what employers can do

• Guide to Getting Ready for Trade Union Reforms

With several changes for employers and HR professionals to digest, here’s a simple overview of what’s coming, when, and the steps you can take to navigate new laws smoothly and confidently

• Handling Harassment Outside of Work

Employers can be held liable for the discriminatory actions of their staff. But what if harassment happens outside working hours or off work premises?

• 10 Dos and Don’ts to Avoid Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination

Our latest factsheet explores what duties employers have to assist pregnant employees, those on maternity leave and what measures they can take to avoid the associated legal pitfalls.

• Supporting Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Embracing neurodiversity in the workplace brings incredible benefits like creativity, innovation, and unique problem-solving skills.

• Effective Probations and the Employment Rights Bill

Our latest factsheet explores how day one rights will affect probation and top tips so you can avoid common probation pitfalls.

• Legal risks of AI at work | Three cautionary case studies

Our short guide highlights three cautionary case studies outlining the possible legal risks and do’s and don’ts to avoid similar situations.

• Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Checklist

This checklist is intended to help HR professionals and business leaders assess and decide upon the most appropriate steps to avoid harassment in the workplace and ensure the safety of employees.

• Employment Rights Bill Progress Tracker

The Employment Rights Bill continues to progress through Parliament – and we’re edging ever closer to a major shake-up in employment law. Our progress tracker outlines, where are we now, and what happens next?

• Extending Tribunal Time Limits Factsheet

• Family-Friendly Leave: At a Glance Reference Guide

• Lawfully Demoting Employees | Factsheet

• A guide to Workplace Conflict

In this guide, we will help you to understand how best to approach common conflict scenarios. We’ll explore a range of strategies, including early interventions and how to streamline formal grievance processes.

• Holiday Rights Detailed Reference Guide

• Guide to Family-Friendly Rights and Leave

Family-friendly rights and leave entitlements can be a challenging area of employment law for employers to navigate. This guide simplifies the subject by setting out the key types of family leave and explaining how to apply the law in a practical way.

• Conflict resolution | Is now the hour for mediation?

• Guide to the Supreme Court’s Decision on What ‘Sex’ Means in the Equality Act 2010

On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in the For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers case. This short guide explains what the case was about, what the Supreme Court’s decision was, and some practical issues and steps for employers to consider in response.

• Managing mental health related absence | Employers’ guide

• Guide to Mental Health in the Workplace

This guide serves as an introduction to some of the key legal considerations that relate to mental health in the workplace, as well as including some examples of reasonable adjustments.

• How to Handle to Sexual Harassment Complaints

What should you do if an employee lodges a sexual harassment complaint, or it’s brought to your attention that harassment is occurring in your workplace? Here’s our recommended eight-step approach for employers to follow.

• 10 Things Employers Need to Know About New Neonatal Leave

10 Things Employers Need to Know About New Neonatal Leave. This leave is designed to support families when a baby requires extended neonatal care following birth, offering financial security and job protection during a particularly challenging time.

• Sick pay shake-up | What HR needs to know about enhanced SSP changes

• Managing Frequent Absences Guide

Managing Frequent Absences Guide - How to fairly dismiss an employee with intermittent sickness absence

• New Neonatal Leave: 10 considerations for employers

• 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 2025 to 2026.

• Supporting Your Muslim Employees During Ramadan

In this guide, we outline the ways you can show support to your Muslim employees during Ramadan, as well as creating a culture of respect.

• Redundancy | Collective Consultation | Practical Tips for HR

As an HR professional, making redundancies is never a pleasant or easy process. From an employment law perspective, the various technicalities that surround it can be complex. In this guide, we outline practical tips for HR professionals.

• Redundancy | Frequently asked questions for HR

Our Employment Solicitors have answered some of the most frequently asked questions we receive from HR professionals about redundancies.

• Redundancy Reforms: Labour’s plans to change collective consultation requirements

• Time to talk: Prioritising mental health in the workplace in 2025

• A guide to The Employment Rights Bill

This guide summarises the proposed changes to employment law to help HR professionals prepare for what’s to come.

• Looking ahead to 2025 – Research-based insights for HR

From supporting employees to navigating upcoming employment law changes, our experts have shared their tips to help you stay ahead.

• 5 biggest challenges for HR in 2025

Prepare for the year ahead with tips from our experts on tackling the predicted challenges of 2025.

• Tribunal ruling highlights need for workplace harassment policies

• Gender Pay Gap Reporting Guide

In this guide, we’ll explore the legislation, reinforcement and employer action plan with actionable steps to take for the gender pay gap reporting.

• Performance management: 5 key things to improve outcomes and avoid legal risks

• Effective performance management in the hybrid workplace

• The risks of dismissing employees over customer complaints

• Sexual harassment vs. harassment related to sex: understanding the difference

• Worker Protection Act: Charities’ ongoing duty to protect employees from third parties

• Hospitality businesses must continue to safeguard employees from customers under the new Worker Protection Act

• Duty on retail businesses to further protect employees from customers remains as Worker Protection Act arrives

• Time to Act: Worker Protection legislation is imminent but just a handful of organisations are prepared

• FAQ | Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Answers to frequently asked questions from the preventing sexual harassment in the workplace | complying with the new statutory duty webinar.

• Inclusive Language in the Workplace | A guide for HR professionals

Explores the use of discriminatory language as it relates to each protected characteristic, including certain terms to avoid and suggestions for more inclusive language.

• Upskill line managers to reduce burden falling on HR professionals

• New duty to prevent sexual harassment | How to stay compliant

• Care sector sponsors face new scrutiny – How to keep your licence safe

• Sexual harassment in the workplace | 3 significant cases from 2024

• New Code of Conduct for Directors: A commitment towards ethical leadership

• Labour’s 10 Key Plans for Employment Legislation

A guide on Labour’s 10 key plans for employment legislation and what they might mean for HR professionals.

• Template | Social Media Policy

This policy covers the use of social media both for work and personal purposes. As a template document, it should be customised to fit your organisation's specific needs.

• Guide to Hybrid Working Attendance Issues

This guide aims to help you prevent issues, promote office attendance, and get hybrid working arrangements back on track.

• Think before you suspend: ensuring fairness in misconduct investigations

• Employing migrant workers | what to expect from the new Labour government

• Day one right to unfair dismissal | Labour’s proposals

• Why reading employment tribunal judgements matters

• Holiday Rights Detailed Reference Guide

How to calculate annual leave entitlement and pay from 2024. Summary of the new provisions, leave and pay entitlement and irregular hours.

• Understanding the 2023 DOCAS regulations for public sector employers

• Maternity Leave and Pay

Discover comprehensive guidance on maternity leave and pay, addressing HR and legal inquiries while providing expert tips for best practices.

• Protecting Employee Mental Health Through the Right to Disconnect

• A Guide to Employment Law Changes 2024

This guide aims to provide you with a clear understanding of what’s been introduced, what’s to come, and how the government’s proposals, if and when implemented, will affect your people, processes and practices.

• Specialist Immigration Employment Law

Navigate immigration law complexities with ease using our guide. Spend less time tackling legislation and more on impactful projects.

• Understanding dual discrimination in UK employment law

Learn about dual discrimination in UK employment law, its implications for employers, and how to navigate discrimination concerns.

• The definitive employer’s guide to Paternity Leave and Pay

This guide outlines employer duties, employee rights, and expert advice regarding paternity leave and pay to ensure best practices and avoid common mistakes.

• Supporting employees who give birth prematurely

• A Guide to UK Immigration Developments in 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore the latest legislative changes that have occurred to date and the new developments coming into force over the next few months, all of which are likely to have an impact on your organisation.

• Navigating work-related stress | Strategies for employers

• Newsflash – Changes to immigration rules

• 5 biggest HR challenges for 2024

We surveyed over 130 HR professionals to discover the top challenges that will be at the forefront for HR in the coming year. Download our experts’ tips on how to tackle these challenges.

• Adjusting to the early Good Friday bank holiday: A guide for employers on holiday entitlements

• Employment law changes 2024 | FAQ

Take a look at our experts’ responses to common queries on upcoming employment law changes.

• Employment law changes 2024 guide

This guide aims to provide you with a clear understanding of what’s to come, and how the government’s proposals, if implemented, will affect your people, processes and practices.

• Looking ahead to 2024: Research-based insights for HR professionals

Throughout November 2023, we engaged HR professionals in discussions about the anticipated HR challenges they foresee in 2024. Discover insights here.

• Research: Is there a ‘perfect’ line manager for the modern workplace?

• Predicting HR challenges in 2024: Retaining talent takes centre stage

This upcoming year may present a shift in priorities for HR professionals according to our own research conducted in the last couple of months of 2023.

• 6 Employee relations priorities a HR leader must focus on in their first 90 days

For HR leaders wanting to make an impact in their first 90 days of their role, here is how you can utilise ER to address the disconnect.

• FAQ | Statutory Collective Consultation

We’ve rounded up some of the most commonly asked questions that we receive from our clients when they need to initiate a large-scale redundancy process.

• Redundancy | Collective Consultation Practical Tips for HR

As an HR professional, implementing redundancies is never a pleasant or easy process. From an employment law perspective, the various technicalities that surround it can often be disorienting and complex

• About epshr

Download this flyer to find out more about esphr, and how we are an extension of your in-house HR and ER team, and provide integrated support services built around people, processes, and technology – all for a fixed annual subscription.

• Surviving the Festive Season: FAQs and Legal Guidance for HR

Includes legal guidance to navigate common HR challenges and proactively avoid potential pitfalls during the festive season.

• Christmas Party Memo

Our Christmas Party Memo has been crafted with the expertise of our solicitors and addresses key considerations to make your event a seamless and enjoyable one.

• Gen Z are proving to be confident line managers

• Breaking the Silence: Supporting Fertility Challenges in the Modern Workplace | FAQs

The following questions were asked by those who attended our recent webinar, “Breaking the Silence: Supporting Fertility Challenges in the Modern Workplace”. These questions have been answered by the webinar hosts, Lorna Gemmell, HR Trainer from WorkNest, and Sarah James, an Associate Solicitor from esphr.

• CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition 2023

Meet the esphr and WorkNest team at this year's CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition in Manchester.

• Whitepapers

• Managing Sickness Absence | HR Resources

With cost of living concerns intensifying, join WorkNest’s HR Business Partner, Hannah Copeland, and Solicitor and Employment Law Adviser, Toyah Marshall, as they uncover the top five ways employers can support the financial wellbeing of their workforce.

• 20/10/22
• 11:00

• Guide | Gender Pay Gap Reporting

• Mastering the First 90 days | Top 6 Priorities for New HR Leaders to Drive Success

• Managing collective redundancies compliantly | HR Resources

With cost of living concerns intensifying, join WorkNest’s HR Business Partner, Hannah Copeland, and Solicitor and Employment Law Adviser, Toyah Marshall, as they uncover the top five ways employers can support the financial wellbeing of their workforce.

• 20/10/22
• 11:00

• Seven Biggest HR Challenges for 2023

• ER White Paper | Seven Key Challenges In-house ER Teams Face