Legal-ease: Contract law

Brown and Anor v Neon Management Services identifies areas where companies may need to re-examine their employment contracts to ensure the best protection for the business

We’re still far from addressing sexual harassment

Are words turning into actions? How far have workplaces come? These are some of the questions Acas explored in a YouGov poll

Are employers to blame for low SPL uptake?

Research reveals there are multiple factors behind why uptake of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) is still so low

What HR can do about a post-truth workplace

With concerns growing over the rise of ‘fake news’ and a ‘post-truth’ culture, HR faces both a challenge and an opportunity

Handling severe allergies in the workplace

With a rise in prevalence of severe food allergies in the UK, how can employers make their workplaces more allergy-friendly?

How businesses can engage BAME employees

As chair of Amazon’s Black Employee Network (BEN) I have seen how vital it can be for organisations to engage black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees

Third of employees don't know pay discrimination is illegal

One in three men (35%) and women (33%) in work do not know that it is illegal to pay women and men differently for equal work

Google: Technologically innovative, culturally backward?

For a supposedly innovative and future-forward company Google is behind the times when it comes to basic equalities and transparency

Employee representation on boards could help at Google, say experts

Staff are demanding changes to how sexual misconduct is dealt with, and the appointment of an employee representative to the board

NDAs aren't inherently wrong

There seems to be a developing view that NDAs are inherently bad and that it is in the public interest that they should never be enforced, but the matter is more complex than this

Budget 2018: IR35 delayed and limited to larger firms

Philip Hammond announced an extension of IR35 to the private sector, apprenticeship levy relief for small firms, and investment in mental health services

Meeting the challenge of new rules on sexual harassment

As Philip Green becomes the latest high-profile individual to be accused of sexual harassment, HR must root out problems closer to home