Settlement Agreement Solicitor

15/12/2022

Steven’s been quoted in the press again on employment law and in particular the new expected right of employees to request flexible working from day one.

Subject to legislation, I expect it will come in to effect next April.

Workers are to be given the right to request...

30/11/2022

Here’s the business perspective on settlement agreements.

Sometimes businesses need to get rid of staff.

15/10/2021

New report says that up to 68% of people have been sexually harrassed in the workplace!

Wow.

I know as a white male I’m very privleged here, but the figures are sickening.

What are you doing in your workplace to respect boundaries and not be, well, a big weirdo?

Blog:

A new report published by the Fawcett Society, Tackling Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, shows that at least 40% of women experience sexual harassment during their career. 23% of those surveyed said that the sexual harassment increased or escalated while they …

08/10/2021

Age discrimination

A report by Legal and General Retail Retirement and the Centre for Economics and Business Research has found that 52% of surveyed job seekers over the age of 50 believed their age made employers less likely to hire them.

The survey of 2,000 over-50s in the UK found that perceptions that they were too overqualified, too close to retirement age, more expensive to hire, or a perceived or actual generational skills gap made employers less likely to invite them to interview or hire them.

The percentage of people who felt their age put them at a disadvantage in securing a new role increased from 46% of those aged between 50 and 59 to 64% for those between 60 and 69.

The Centre for Ageing Better, alongside the CIPD and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, has launched a best practice guide to help employers be more age-inclusive in their recruitment processes.

I’ve seen a lot of this and lots of people around 58+ seem to get settlement agreements when companies are restructuring.

Any comments?

11/09/2021

23/04/2021

A little blog on employment law ...

Interesting case report relating to a dismissal for not working due to COVID concerns.

Tribunal cases on COVID-19 are now trickling through the courts. Here’s a great example of a sensible decision in the circumstances.

https://zcu.io/xbB6

21/02/2021

Sacked for not wearing a mask...

In what I believe to be one of the first court or tribunal decisions about mask wearing at work, the East London Employment Tribunal determined that a lorry driver who was sacked because he refused to wear a face mask …

14/02/2021

What happens if you successfully avoid redundancy by getting a “suitable alternative role” only to realise it’s not for you?

Have a read of my article here https://settlementagreement.medium.com/settlement-agreement-after-successfully-avoiding-redundancy-defabd29bdd5

09/02/2021

One very regular reason that we see when advising on settlement agreements, is where the client has worked at a company for a number of years, a new manager comes in and there is just a conflict of management styles.

Here's an article Steven wrote for Professionals UK on the subject.

One very regular reason that we see when advising on settlement agreements, is where the client has worked at a company for a number of years, a new manager comes in and there is just a conflict of management styles. There’s a few different management styles that generally exist, such …

31/12/2020

Thanks for your support in 2020.

Here’s to 2021.

Happy New Year 🥳

21/12/2020

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