We have some great feedback from one of Liam's clients to share this week: M G said: “The advice and service I received from PJH Law was excellent. I was treated with dignity and respect and any questions always received a timely response.”
Last week, we looked at an agent who was awarded over £1.5million for a whistleblower claim! For those of you that missed last week’s update, you can find it here. This week we look at a case that made the national news which asks the question; is saying the ‘N’- word during a racism awareness training [...]
Hello again and Happy New Year to you all; we hope you had a wonderful break. Welcome back to our case of the week and our first for 2024! We are starting off the year with a case that looks at contractual clauses limiting the financial liability of the employer on termination of employment. For [...]
Happy holidays everyone and welcome back to our final newsletter for 2023! We hope you are all keeping warm over the holiday period and looking forward to spending some time with family (or not, if you're really lucky!). This week we're taking a short look at the changes to the Equality Act, discriminatory hiring practices, [...]
Moving into the new year we will have some amendments to the Equality Act 2010. The first of these will come into force on 1 Jan (Happy New Year, by the way), which will seek to retain existing EU law in line with the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023. The primary areas [...]
On 13 December a Parliamentary Committee was held on 'champions of female representation in financial services to give evidence on Sexism in the City', which saw Amanda Blanc, Aviva's CEO, give statements to the committee tasked with identifying gender pay gaps and what progress needs to be made in the Financial Services industry. In a [...]
As I am sure you will all of heard about, or possibly watched live, a BBC presenter caught holding up her middle finger to the camera earlier this month. The moment was reported widely as many BBC viewers were greeted to the news by Maryam Moshiri flipping them the bird right before the news started. In the [...]
Welcome all and thank you for joining us for another case of the week update. This week we'll be bringing the festive joy by looking at a 2010 case involving a Christmas party!.. And the dismissal that occurred shortly afterwards. For anyone that missed it, our last update looked at a case where an employee resigned [...]
Hello again and welcome back to our case of the week. We are starting off the festive season with a case involving ‘Heat of the Moment Resignations’. Last week we had our monthly newsletter for November where we looked at the new Minimum Wage Rates increasing in April 2024 and a former Man City player [...]
Hello and thank you for joining us for our November newsletter where we have a roundup of some employment related news stories. This month we’ve seen National Minimum Wage rates are to increase from April 2024, a former Man City player bringing a claim against the club for unpaid wages, and in our lighter side [...]
Collette, one of our newly qualified solicitors has received some lovely feedback this week. L N said: "We are very impressed with how we were treated by Collette. She acted in a very professional manner and spoke so we understood everything, with humour at times (we are after all, all human.) For our first time [...]
Employment firm ‘Indeed’ carried out a survey of over 1,000 employees and 500 employers in the UK showing 33% of workers who WFH are wearing their pyjamas during shift hours! On average, employees are wearing pjs 46 days a year with one in twelve wearing their pjs every day. More than half of workers admitted [...]
A former Manchester City player, Benjamin Mendy, has filed a “multi-million-pound” claim with the Employment Tribunal claiming “unlawful deductions from wages” for pay owed from September 2021 to the end of his contract in June 2023. The player last played for the club in August 2021 and was suspended following several charges for sexual offences [...]
The Government announced as part of the Autumn Statement that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) rates will be increasing from 1st April 2024. This will be the largest ever increase to the minimum wage after the Government accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations. The NLW is the statutory minimum wage for [...]
