For many businesses, inclusion and diversity is one of the leading issues on the agenda as we move into 2021. Although simply saying that you welcome, recognise and champion difference… Read more »
Paul Burton, Head of Employment Law at Frettens Solicitors provides us with an update on employment law and what has changed since April this year. To say a lot has… Read more »
Unusually this year for many companies that may have already had a robust onboarding strategy in place, this could be the first time that the majority of new employees are… Read more »
Chris Dobbs, specialist employment & HR solicitor at Frettens, has written several recent articles on home-working and the use of employee monitoring techniques. Here, he consolidates these articles and explores this… Read more »
The Insights behavioural model – or ‘colour’ model, as it’s sometimes called – can be a great predictor of how well (or not!) we might handle sudden changes like having to work… Read more »
There are over 1.45 million people now working in temporary contracts (according to the Office for National Statistics Sept 2020). If you are considering temporary work (or even if you… Read more »
I have thought long and hard about the ‘appropriateness’ of writing about what has, until very recently, been a taboo subject. However, when I read that the CIPD had produced… Read more »
Gender dysphoria is currently a hot topic of discussion. It has already been reported that demand for transgender healthcare is expected to accelerate. In fact, Dr James Palmer, the Medical… Read more »
With unemployment having increased to 4.5% as reported by ONS it is not surprising that some companies are being inundated with applications. Indeed have recently reported 1.2 million job vacancies… Read more »
With our governing body the REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) reporting a stronger increase in recruitment activity this month due to both the economy re-opening and less Covid restrictions (in… Read more »