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  • Spring clean your business’s contracts and policies

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  • Neurodiversity in the workplace

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  • Debenhams Ottaway’s Employment Law Round Up – March 2026

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  • Christmas party season: An employer’s guide

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  • Debenhams Ottaway hosts Employment Lawyers Association training day

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  • Midlife Matters: Employment lawyer Michael Kerrigan champions menopause in the workplace

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  • ‘Taking your clients with you when moving firm could see you in court’

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  • SME businesses: How to manage employees with side hustles

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  • National minimum wage: where employers can fall down

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  • How to manage workplace stress

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  • Annual Employment Law Update in association with Hertfordshire CIPD 2023

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  • Chambers UK 2023 rankings firmly establishes Debenhams Ottaway as a trusted adviser to businesses

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  • Top tier rankings for Debenhams Ottaway in The Legal 500 UK 2023

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  • 4 things your business should think about right now

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  • Only 25% of businesses have a menopause policy despite 43% reporting that female employees have faced difficulties because of menopause

    • PostedMay 2022
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  • Flexible working: New legislation, tips for employers and what the future looks like

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  • Annual employment law update in association with Herts CIPD

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  • Webinar: The latest workplace wellbeing trends for 2022

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  • The impact of the menopause at home and in the workplace

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  • Workplace wellness in a Post Covid world webinar

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  • Employment law: a Covid-19 update for HR professionals

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  • Furlough v redundancy: When does a failure to furlough as an alternative to redundancy render a dismissal unfair?

    • PostedAugust 2021
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  • Have you been offered a settlement agreement?

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  • New self-isolation rules – key implications for employers 

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  • ‘No jab no job’: could there be a claim for indirect discrimination?

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  • Flexible working requests – how should your employer deal with a request? 

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  • How to successfully introduce hybrid working to your business

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  • Sleep-in shifts update: care providers breathe a sigh of relief

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  • Uber drivers win in the Supreme Court – what does this mean for the gig economy?

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  • How to look after your office-based workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

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  • Employment law update: How Covid-19 is impacting care homes

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  • Employment tribunal claims at the highest level in six years due to Covid-19

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  • Government consultation on non-compete clauses

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  • Annual employment law update in association with Herts CIPD

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  • Employment law update: navigating HR professionals through the latest furlough scheme changes

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  • How the extended furlough scheme will work from 1 November 2020 

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  • Furlough scheme extended as the UK enters a second national lockdown

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  • Employment law: navigating HR professionals through the Covid pandemic

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  • Job Support Scheme closed: expansion for closed business premises  

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  • Employment update – catch up from 6 April 2020

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  • Job Support Scheme: What we know so far

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  • Penalties for misuse of the job retention scheme

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  • Sleep in shifts update

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  • Redundancy – can employers use furlough money towards notice pay? 

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  • COVID-19: The final furlough – 10 June 2020 deadline

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  • COVID-19: Ending furlough – can we begin returning to normal?

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  • COVID-19: What are my employment rights during the coronavirus outbreak? Guidance for employees

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  • COVID-19: Landmark High Court ruling on Administrators access to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

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  • COVID-19: Guidance for employers on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

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  • COVID-19: Help for small/medium sized businesses during the pandemic

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  • COVID-19: Advice to employers and employees during the coronavirus outbreak

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  • Annual employment update 2020

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  • Personal liability of directors for inducing company breach of contract

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  • Employment tribunal ruling set to affect thousands of teachers

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  • Can we speak off the record?

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  • National minimum wage & sleep-in shifts…the government publishes long awaited guidance

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  • Are workers entitled to the national minimum wage when they are on standby or sleeping at work?

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