Despite Covid restrictions being lifted in England, the effects of the pandemic continue to change our everyday lives, including in the workplace.

Employers will soon have to comply with a new, statutory Code on the practice of firing employees and then rehiring them on less favourable terms of employment, or risk paying extra compensation, including for unfair dismissal, if they get it wrong.

The full results of the Employer Confidence Survey 2022 gauging employers confidence in dealing with day-to-day issues.

Employers will welcome updates to the Acas guidance helping them deal with employees who have suffered a bereavement.

The annual review of the maximum compensation that can be awarded in unfair dismissal and other cases increases the awards from 6 April 2022.

Despite Covid restrictions being lifted in England, the effects of the pandemic continue to change our everyday lives, including in the workplace.

We want your views…. Our Employment team have created a short survey to evaluate the level of confidence among employers of different sizes in dealing with common and less common issues that arise day to day within a workforce.

The Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD), together with members of the government's Flexible Working Taskforce, has published free advice to help employers decide whether hybrid working – where staff work partly at home and partly at a workplace - would suit their business and employees, and how to introduce it fairly.