In a recent tribunal case, an employee of Lidl has won a tribunal case for unfair dismissal and unfavourable treatment due to his disability. Ryan Toghill worked for Lidl [...]

April 2026 will see one of the biggest changes to sickness entitlement and pay. Two significant changes will be implemented, namely – The removal of the “waiting period”, meaning [...]

The Employment Rights Act finally gained royal assent as of 18th December, confirming a number of changes for employers. The Bill was debated in parliament throughout most of 2025, [...]

For this blog, we are sharing an interesting case which has recently been reported on. In the case of Jospeh Johnson v London Borough of Harrow, the judge dismissed [...]

Are employers responsible for ensuring annual leave is taken? There are countless amounts of research talking about the importance of taking annual leave, and the effects of not having [...]

Succession Planning and Developing Future Workforces You would have read in our recent blog, that 82% of managers enter into a management role without any form of management training [...]

Managing Annual Leave As a manager, or employee, of a business, the importance of regular breaks from work is essential. However, a recent study has shown that nearly half [...]

What is HR? This is a question that we are often asked and can be hard to describe in one or two sentences.   HR has changed massively over [...]

Current sickness figures show that employees take an average of 2 weeks (9.4 days) off, each year. A survey undertaken by CIPD and Simplyhealth showed the increase in figures, [...]