This month's update includes the Supreme Court ruling on holiday pay, a landmark decision that will have serious implications for some employers. We also include the usual round up of recent employment legislation and ICO guidance on monitoring employees.

In this month's round-up, we explain the advantages of mediation and how it can help to resolve workplace disputes quickly and cost-effectively; an update on various Private Members' Bills that are currently going through Parliament; and a case update featuring a long running disability discrimination case.

The new year started positively for three members of the agriculture team.

This month's update includes the increase to the Vento Bands, the Worker Protection Bill, the Low Pay Commission Report on the national minimum wage, and the Health & Disability White Paper.

Intellectual property is a valuable asset for any business from start-ups through to large corporations.

A leading Midlands law firm has picked up national honours at a prestigious awards ceremony for its work within the probate sector. Wright Hassall, which is based in Leamington Spa, has been named Best Probate Law Firm for Central England at The UK Probate Research Awards 2021.

We worked closely with the Corporate team of a London law firm which advised an AIM listed company on its acquisition of another AIM listed entity.

Do you have customers north of the border and if so are any of your contracts subject to Scottish law? If the answer is “yes” to both questions then read on Macduff as there’s one or two risks you might not be aware of.

This month's update reports on the three Private Members' Bills that have received Royal Assent; recent government guidance issued on ethnicity pay gap reporting; a review of the current whistleblowing framework; the proposed creation of a new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud within the Economic Crime and Transparency Bill; and a two case updates, one dealing with a discrimination claim, and the other, holiday pay.

It's a simple fact of life that we all feel under the weather or sick from time to time. Thankfully, most of the time, it is nothing serious, and we soon recover.