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Redundancy & Restructuring

The UK Redundancy Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Employers

A procedural walk-through of the seven steps a UK employer must follow to run a defensible redundancy process, from business rationale through to the right of appeal.

8 min · Elizabeth Rebecca Cavendish
HR Best Practice

Handling Flexible Working Requests: What Changed in 2024 (and Still Applies)

Since April 2024, flexible working is a day-one right. Employees can make two requests per year, and you must respond within two months. Here's how to handle them properly.

6 min · Elizabeth Rebecca Cavendish
Disciplinary & Grievance

Disciplinary Hearings: An 11-Point Checklist Before You Start

Most disciplinary dismissals overturned at tribunal are overturned on procedure, not facts. Run through this 11-point checklist before any hearing.

7 min · Elizabeth Rebecca Cavendish
Employment Disputes & Tribunals

ACAS Early Conciliation Explained: A UK Employer's Guide

Before almost any employment tribunal claim, the claimant must contact ACAS. Here is what Early Conciliation is, how the six-week window works, and what employers should do when the EC notification lands.

8 min · Elizabeth Rebecca Cavendish
Family-Friendly Leave

Parental Leave in the UK: A Complete Employer's Guide (2026)

Parental leave in the UK is now a stack of five separate statutory rights, maternity, paternity, shared parental, unpaid parental and neonatal care leave. Here is what each one covers, who qualifies and what employers must pay.

10 min · Elizabeth Rebecca Cavendish
Employment Law

Workplace Harassment: The UK Employer's Guide to Liability, the Preventative Duty & Claims

A practical guide to workplace harassment for UK employers: the legal definition, vicarious liability, the 2024 preventative duty, claims, compensation and how to handle a complaint.

12 min · David White

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