Patricia Redfearn

October 2026 saw a number of significant employment law changes, with further reforms expected throughout 2027. Together, these developments place greater obligations on employers and increase the importance of having effective policies, procedures and...

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...