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- Employment law guide
Updated to reflect that the Acas early conciliation period is increased to 12 weeks from 1 December 2025.
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- Contract clauses
Updated to reflect current practice and changes to permitted disclosures under the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, effective from 1 October 2025.
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- Legal timetable
Non-disclosure agreements will be unenforceable where they seek to prevent victims of crime from disclosing information for certain purposes, including accessing confidential advice and support.
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- Legal timetable
The Employment Rights Bill includes a proposed provision to ban the use of confidentiality clauses that prevent disclosures relating to workplace harassment and discrimination
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- How to
Updated to refer to Bathgate v Technip Singapore PTE Ltd, which held that settlement agreements can cover unknown future claims.
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- Employment law cases
In Bathgate v Technip Singapore PTE Ltd, the Scottish Court of Session held that future unknown employment claims can be validly waived under a settlement agreement.
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- 1 July 2022
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- Commentary and insights
As we reach the midpoint of 2022, HR professionals would be forgiven for losing track of all the live employment law proposals and what they mean for their organisation. To assist HR with planning for the rest of the year and beyond, we round up the major employment law changes in the pipeline as of mid-2022.
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- Editor's choice
Our popular Policies and documents tool includes a selection of checklists to assist HR and line managers when holding some common meetings or hearings related to a number of key workplace processes.
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- Policies and procedures
A model checklist to use when holding an initial settlement discussion with an employee who is subject to a performance improvement procedure, or has reached the stage when a performance improvement procedure is about to be invoked.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model checklist to use when holding an initial settlement discussion with an employee who is subject to a disciplinary offence.