How to Manage Long-Term Sickness Absence
Long term sickness absence can be challenging for both employees and employers. For employers, extended absence may affect productivity and...
Employment Rights Act 2025: What Employers Need to Know
The Employment Rights Bill has completed its passage through Parliament and has now received Royal Assent, becoming the Employment Rights...
Employment Tribunals and Neurodiversity: Key Considerations for Employers
Employment Tribunal proceedings are stressful for everyone involved. Where a claimant is neurodivergent (for example, autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic or...
Managing Grievances in the Workplace: Legal Requirements and Best Practice
Dealing with a grievance promptly and fairly is vital for employers. Employee grievances can disrupt the workplace, impact morale and...
Autumn Employment Law Update
Welcome to the Autumn Employment Law Update. The Employment Law Update provides the legal notices that HR Professionals need to...
Employers’ Legal Duty to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
On 26 October 2024, The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 came into force, which introduced a...
King’s speech – what employers need to know
On 17th July 2024, King Charles III delivered the longest monarch’s speech at a State Opening of Parliament in over...
Understanding Carer’s Leave Rights for Employees
In April 2024, a significant change in UK employment law came into force, introducing the Carer's Leave Act. This new...
The 4-day working week; considerations for employers.
The Employment team at DTM Legal have seen an increase in the number of employers considering the 4-day working week...
April Employment Newsletter
In this Spring Employment Newsletter, Tom Evans discusses the recent changes in Employment Law and recent cases. National Minimum Wage,...
Additional bank holiday announced for the funeral of HRH Queen Elizabeth II
An additional bank holiday has been announced for Monday 19th September 2022, the date of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s...
Employment Law Briefing Summer 2022 Part 2
In our latest Employment Law Briefing, our team offer Employment Law advice on 'Fire and rehire', fair dismissal, discrimination and...
Spring Employment Law Briefing
In this Employment Law Update Elizabeth Judson outlines the recent rates and limits increases and a number of recent cases...
Has P&O Ferries breached employment law?
Has P&O Ferries breached employment law by firing 800 UK-based sailors and replacing them with agency staff? This is the...
Employment Law Update and What’s New for 2022
Elizabeth Judson and Tom Evans outline some of the recent employment law changes. Living with COVID plan - Timetable of...
IR35 for the Private Sector perspectives from Employment Law and Tax
The ‘IR35’ rules, introduced in 2017 were designed to prevent the avoidance of tax and national insurance contributions (NICs) through...
Employment Law Newsletter
In our latest Employment newsletter Tom Evans and Elizabeth Judson update on COVID related case law Car and uniform payments...
IR35, employment status and rules & regulations
On 06 April 2021, delayed a year due to Covid 19, the Off-Payroll Working rules (IR35) changed, rules designed to...
Returning to the office post-pandemic – the employment law implications
It is no longer a criminal offence for an employee to leave home in order to go to the office...
Further Furlough Scheme Update
The furlough scheme has been further updated to extend it to 30 April 2021. A new Treasury Direction has been...
Furlough Scheme Update
HM Revenue & Customs has updated its guidance on the furlough scheme to state that employers can furlough employees whose...