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How should employers deal with AI-generated grievances?

AI-generated grievances are becoming a HR issue. Our guide explains how employers can manage them.

Why your retail business needs outsourced HR support

Our guide explains how outsourced HR helps retail businesses be legally compliant and offer great service.

What is BIM?

This guide provides an insightful overview of the benefits of BIM in construction.

What does annual leave mean?

We've put together this guide to explore the importance annual leave for employers and employees.

Employment Rights Act 2025: What do you need to know?

Our guide provides a comprehensive overview of the Employment Rights Act 2025 and the plethora of changes it'll bring to employment law

Holiday allowance calculator: The key details

If you're struggling with working out a worker's holiday allowance, our guide explores how a holiday allowance calculator can support you.

Government promises more help for employers and apprentices

Marking this year’s National Apprenticeship Week (9–15 February), the Government has announced plans to pilot a university clearance-style system where “near miss” applicants who have failed to secure their top choice apprenticeship will be re-directed to similar opportunities in their area.

Government consultation opens on flexible working reforms

The Government has launched a consultation on improving access to flexible working as part of its Plan to Make Work Pay.

Employment law changes affecting unions now in force

Among the important changes, dismissal for taking part in protected industrial action is now “automatically unfair”, removing the previous 12-week limit for claiming unfair dismissal and extending it through the whole period of industrial action.

Union anger at reports that young workers’ minimum wage rates may be retained

In its election manifesto, Labour promised that it would remove the age bands on the minimum wage rates which currently see a worker aged 21 and over earning £12.21 per hour while an 18-year-old colleague is paid £10 per hour.

Problems for one in three unemployed adults who want to work

The January 2026 labour market statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics, show that one in three unemployed adults aged between 16–64 want to work (35.7%).

Trade union changes under ERA 2025 now in force

Described as the most significant reforms of trade union laws in a generation, a number of sections of the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) came into force on 18 February 2026, with the Government advising unions to review their internal policies and processes to ensure they are compatible with the new legislation.