The government has confirmed new Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates from 1 April 2022.

Our Employment team are seeing an increase in the number of well-known employers aiming to nudge unvaccinated employees into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by reducing benefits such as enhanced sick pay.

Stephen Newman and Adam Cockroft from Ramsdens’ Company and Commercial team, with support from Chris Annable (commercial property) and Emily Walker (employment), have advised the Sellers in relation to Expect Distribution’s recent management buyout.

Employers should start to prepare for new laws requiring them to provide up to a week’s unpaid leave each year for employees who are also unpaid carers for certain ‘dependents’ with a long-term need for care outside the workplace, due in 2022.

Our Employment Partner, Gareth Dando has featured on EmployerNews.co.uk providing redundancy advice for company directors.

Employers, employees and the self-employed are planning for changes introduced by upcoming social care-related national insurance and dividend tax rises, and an eventual new Health and Social Care Levy.

Disabled employees and their employers are checking out the details of the government’s new National Disability Strategy and associated developments and considering what changes they may need to introduce to improve the workplace for disabled workers.

The Legal 500's results for 2022 have been announced and we're extremely proud to have ranked in 9 practice areas (Employment, Corporate & Commercial, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Property, Family, Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate, Contentious Probate, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury) up one more than last year.