Insightful blogs on employment law, immigration, and workplace HR matters. Stay informed, compliant, and create a thriving work environment.
In 2025, the Home Office revoked 3,100 sponsor licences, the highest annual figure since the sponsorship system was introduced. In the final quarter of 2025 alone, the number of revocations tripled compared to the previous quarter. This reflects a deliberate and sustained intensification of enforcement activity that shows no sign of slowing in 2026. Why […]
Continue reading...
For some business owners, hiring foreign workers is almost essential due to the nature or requirements of their business. Whatever your pre-requisite for employing someone from outside the UK, you must be mindful of certain rules and requirements that foreign workers need to adhere to if they want to work in the UK. Is your […]
For all employers, a legally sound, comprehensive employment contract is essential – not just for legal compliance but also to ensure employer and employee alike understand what is required of them, right from the start of the relationship. Whereas a staff handbook is a written summary of the standards of behaviour expected of your employees. […]
Recently, the BBC spent £500,000 defending an unfair dismissal claim against its former chief technology officer, after being offered to settle the case for £50,000. The sum of almost £500,00 did not include damages paid to the claimant, which were reported to be nearly £80,000. Here, we look at the key things an Employer should […]
The High Potential Individual (“HPI”) visa is one of several new immigration routes introduced by the Home Office this year. It is designed to attract “the brightest and best” to the UK, the HPI visa appears to form part of the Government’s wider plan to deliver an ‘elite points-based system’, as announced in their ‘Build […]
On 11 April 2022, the new Global Business Mobility (GBM) routes went live and aim to provide new solutions for overseas businesses seeking to establish a presence in, or moving staff to, the UK. In this post, we look at The new Global Mobility Routes are now live – what has changed? What are the […]
There are a number of key changes to right-to-work checks coming into force on 6 April 2022, which we will seek to explain and explore in this blog post. What are right-to-work checks? Freedom of movement between the UK and the EU has now ended and the UK has introduced a new immigration system. As […]
Last week, P&O Ferries hit the headlines when they dismissed 800 employees with no prior warning. As staff staged sit-ins on the company’s boats, with the backing of their trade unions, experts cast doubts over the legality of P&O’s plot to replace them with cheaper agency workers. The affair could potentially cost P&O “hundreds of […]
Employees and workers begin to accrue holiday leave and pay as soon as they commence work. However, the terms on which an individual is engaged by an organisation, will affect how much leave, and therefore pay, they would be entitled to. In this post, we explore the topic of calculating holiday pay correctly. Statutory Entitlement […]
Next month, a number of rate changes are coming into play. In this post, we explore April 2022 rate changes: what employers need to know. April 2022 rate changes The first of the April 2022 rate changes will take effect upon the 1st April 2022, with the increases in the national minimum wage and national living wage […]
