Companies with fewer than 49 employees are classed as 'small to medium businesses or SMEs', they account for 99.3% of all businesses.

We have addressed some of the key considerations which employers need to think about for adverse weather and travel disruption.

A workplace grievance can be anything from a concern or issue to a formal complaint about the business, an individual or a group of individuals within the company.

Stacey Lambert, Associate in our Business Immigration team, explains how transitional arrangements should be applied when extending Skilled Worker visas and sets out some useful examples.

A major bank is set to open a premier office location in Leamington Spa as part of its plans for growth in the area. Local relationship bank Handelsbanken will move to a new 3,000 sq ft office on the second floor of Olympus House from its current premises in the town after agreeing a 10-year sub-lease with leading law firm Wright Hassall.

In order to mitigate against an employee being able to bring a successful unfair dismissal claim or wrongful dismissal claim against their employer in relation to a misconduct sanction/ dismissal, the employer must follow the correct procedure in relation to disciplinary investigations and disciplinary hearings.

In recognition of the millions of workers not earning enough to support a normal standard of living, in his budget of July 2015 Chancellor George Osborne announced a new ‘National Living Wage’ for all workers in the UK over the age of 25.

Solicitors acting for a structured credit salesman who had been working for JP Morgan failed to lodge a court document in time.

The 2014 Oxford Farming Conference predicted that the next decade would see an increase in share farming as the shape of the industry changed, with “a divergence between those owning land and those farming (operating) it”.

A recent decision by the First-tier Tribunal has decided that contributions to, and subsequent loans from, a remuneration trust scheme were not ‘earnings’ or disguised remuneration.