Patricia Redfearn

Most workplace disputes do not start out as legal problems. They start as a rota change nobody explained, a piece of feedback that landed badly, or two capable people who have quietly stopped speaking to each other. Left alone, a surprising number of them...

Few employment law topics have evolved as quickly in recent years as the non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. Once a quietly drafted provision in a settlement document, the NDA has become a focal point of public debate, parliamentary reform and regulatory...

Now that the new Employment Rights Act 2025 has come into force, changes to a number of historical statutory rules employers have followed for decades will now be changed. One of the first changes will be to the current Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) regime...