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From today, as a result of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 SI 2017/260, the standard rate of statutory sick pay will be £89.35 per week.

As at today, the standard rates of statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay and statutory shared parental pay will rise to £140.98 per week (or 90 per cent of the person’s average weekly earnings if lower) in…

New Rates for National Minimum Wage from today are: • workers aged 25 and over                               £7.50 per hour; • workers aged 21 to 24    …

Our City Employment Lawyers have recently attended Judicial Mediations at London Employment Tribunals and successfully settled claims on behalf of our (very happy) clients.  One Respondent client agreed a commercial termination of a senior employee who was claiming pregnancy and…

A recent You Gov poll found that 69% of people polled felt that “People should be able to seek a divorce without having to show their spouse is at fault”. 15% felt that “People seeking a divorce should have to show their…

As we reported back in September 2016, according to government statistics 77% of mothers have had a negative or possibility discriminatory experience during pregnancy.  Many of these women do not speak out.  Over the past twelve months, our employment team…

As is common for the time of year (as businesses look to work to new budgets for a New Year), our employment team had a busy December advising employees in relation to the termination of their employment under a Settlement Agreement.…

Our employment team were recently successful in defending our client against a High Court injunction obtained against him by his former employer for alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in his employment contract. We were able to persuade the Court that…

We recently obtained an injunction in the High Court to prevent building works taking place which had the potential to damage our clients’ adjacent property. The case continues.

In a very sensitive case, our litigation team spared their client the stress of court proceedings by securing a favourable settlement. The case concerned the fatality of a 79 year old man resulting from clinical negligence. The client is set…