Tickets are selling fast for a festive pantomime which will raise money for charity in memory of a young girl from Warwick. Raise The Roof theatre company will perform its original production of ‘The Festive Elves & The Shoemakers’ in Warwick and Leamington Spa from Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th November. Evening performances will take place on […]

I’ve been given a Settlement Agreement by my employer – what is it? A Settlement Agreement is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which you are asked to settle your employment claims. Usually, the Agreement will record that your employment ends on a certain date, as part of the terms. If you […]

On 10 October 2024, the Government presented the Employment Rights Bill to Parliament, containing some of the most significant reforms in a decade. The Government will consult on the reforms and most of them are expected to take effect no earlier than 2026. Following on from our first article about the Employment Rights Bill, we […]

A local hospice has added a new shop in Alcester to its footprint of charity shops – bringing the total to 26. The Myton Hospices has just opened its newest store, which will sell donated preloved homewares, electrical items and small pieces of furniture, at Alcester Business Centre in Kinwarton Farm Road. It is the […]

Employment Rights Bill – individual rights On 10 October 2024, the Government presented the Employment Rights Bill to Parliament, containing some of the most significant reforms in a decade. The Government will consult on the reforms and most of them are expected to take effect no earlier than 2026. This is a summary of some […]

From 6 April 2024, flexible working requests became a day-one right and the number of requests has doubled to two per year.   The request must be considered within two months and the employee must be consulted before the employer can refuse a request.   There is no longer a requirement for the employee to […]

Additional redundancy protection cover for pregnant employees, employees taking maternity leave, adoption leave or shared parental leave, was introduced on 6 April 2024. If there are any suitable alternative vacancies in a redundancy situation, an employer must offer them to employees who have this redundancy protection (in priority over other employees). The timing of the […]

The statutory entitlement to Paternity Leave for employee, changed on 6 April 2024:- the leave can now be split into a single period of either one or two weeks or two non-consecutive periods of one week each it can be taken at any point within 52 weeks of the birth or adoption placement or within […]

There is now a day-one right for employees to take up to one week’s unpaid leave in a rolling 12 month period, to provide or arrange care for a dependant with a long-term care need. An employee is only entitled to one week’s leave, irrespective of how many dependants the employee has.   A dependant […]

There are new annual leave rules relating to irregular hours and part-year workers which apply in respect of any leave year beginning on or after 1st April 2024. The Department for Business and Trade updated its guidance on the new rules regarding holiday entitlement which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-holiday-entitlement-and-holiday-pay-calculations/holiday-pay-and-entitlement-reforms-from-1-january-2024 If you would like to […]