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Dismissed From Work: What Should I Do?
The first fortnight matters most Do five things: obtain the reason in writing, lodge an internal appeal before
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Can I Claim Unfair Dismissal?
The qualifying period changes on 1 January 2027 Effective date of termination Service required Before 1 January 2027
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Constructive Dismissal: Can I Resign and Claim?
Constructive dismissal is when you resign because your employer has seriously breached your employment contract. The legal term
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Can My Employer Dismiss Me While I Am Off Sick?
Yes, in principle A fit note is not immunity. Long-term or persistent sickness absence can be a fair
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Fire and Rehire: Your Rights and the January 2027 Changes
What it is Fire and rehire — properly, dismissal and re-engagement — is where an employer dismisses you
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What Is a Settlement Agreement?
The definition A settlement agreement is a written, legally binding contract setting out the terms for settling an
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How Much Should I Get in a Settlement Agreement?
There is no formula No law requires a fixed number of months’ salary. A settlement figure is built
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Settlement Agreement Tax: The £30,000 Rule and PENP
The first £30,000 of a genuine termination payment is usually free of Income Tax and employee National Insurance.
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Acas Early Conciliation and COT3 Settlements
Notification is compulsory You cannot present a tribunal claim without first notifying Acas and obtaining an early conciliation
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At Risk of Redundancy: Your Rights
“At risk” does not mean decided Being placed at risk means your employer is proposing redundancies and consulting
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NDAs and Confidentiality Clauses
What they are A confidentiality clause — often called an NDA or gagging clause — restricts what you
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Redundancy During Pregnancy or Maternity Leave
Can you be made redundant during pregnancy? A genuine redundancy can occur during pregnancy or maternity leave. But
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How Much Redundancy Pay Will I Get?
A redundancy package contains several separate elements: statutory redundancy pay enhanced redundancy pay salary to termination notice pay
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Discrimination at Work
Protected characteristics The Equality Act 2010 protects against discrimination because of: age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil
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Reasonable Adjustments at Work
What they are Reasonable adjustments are changes that remove or reduce a disadvantage a disabled person faces at
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Bullying and Harassment at Work
Bullying and harassment are not the same thing There is no standalone Employment Tribunal claim called “bullying”. That
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My Employer Has Not Paid Me
What counts as unpaid wages A pay dispute may concern salary, hourly pay, overtime, commission, bonus, allowances, holiday
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Holiday Pay: What Should My Employer Include?
Statutory entitlement Workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid statutory annual leave each leave year. For someone working
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Statutory Sick Pay And Sickness Rights
What changed on 6 April 2026 You no longer wait three unpaid days before qualifying for Statutory Sick
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Grievances And Disciplinary Hearings
Two procedures, one expensive mistake A grievance is your complaint about something your employer has done. A disciplinary
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Received an ET1
We’ve Received an ET1. What Do We Do in the First 48 Hours? The envelope is open on
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Suspension
Can We Suspend an Employee? The Question Managers Ask Too Late Handbooks describe suspension as a “neutral act.”
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Disciplinary Hearings
How to Run a Disciplinary Hearing That Survives a Tribunal You can be entirely right about what the
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Grievance Mid-Disciplinary
An Employee Has Raised a Grievance Halfway Through Their Disciplinary It usually arrives the evening before the hearing,
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Protected Conversations
Protected Conversations: Narrower Than You Think “We’ll have a quiet word off the record” is the most expensive
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Pricing a Settlement
How Much Should We Offer? Pricing a Settlement Properly Employers usually start with a number that feels fair.
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Probation
Dismissing During Probation: Why “They’ve Only Been Here Five Months” Isn’t a Defence Short service removes one risk.
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Long-Term Sickness
Long-Term Sickness Absence: When Can You Fairly Dismiss? Ill-health capability is a potentially fair reason. The order in
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Redundancy Selection
Redundancy Selection Criteria That Won’t Get You Sued Almost every redundancy claim we defend has the same root
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Collective Consultation
Collective Consultation: The Most Expensive Mistake in Employment Law Individual redundancy errors cost you one claim. Collective failures
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TUPE Across the Irish Sea
TUPE Across the Irish Sea: Where Great Britain Advice Quietly Fails The most common technical error we see
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GB vs NI — The Comparison Page
Employment Law in Northern Ireland: 12 Differences Every GB Employer Misses Employ in Belfast and Birmingham and you
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London
Employment Law Support for London Employers London carries the densest claim volume in the country and the longest
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Birmingham
Employment Law Support for Birmingham and West Midlands Employers We are based at The Business Centre on Moseley
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Manchester
Employment Law Support for Manchester Employers Manchester’s employer base has changed faster than almost any UK city —
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Leeds
Employment Law Support for Leeds and Yorkshire Employers Leeds carries an unusual concentration of financial, legal, healthcare and
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Glasgow
Scotland shares the core statutes — the Employment Rights Act 1996 and Equality Act 2010 both apply, claims
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Edinburgh
Employment Law Support for Edinburgh Employers Edinburgh’s concentration of financial services, asset management, higher education, technology and government-adjacent
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Belfast
Employment Law Support for Belfast and Northern Ireland Employers Northern Ireland is a separate employment jurisdiction, and this
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Bristol and Cardiff
Employment Law Support for Bristol, Cardiff and the South West Bristol skews towards aerospace and defence engineering around
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