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Your go-to hub for HR insights, updates, and expert advice.

Whether you’re navigating policy changes, looking for ways to boost employee engagement, or exploring HR solutions, you’ll find fresh, relevant content to support and inspire your strategy.

Check back regularly for new articles, features, and thought leadership tailored to the evolving world of HR, Employment Law and Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

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Helping local community ambitions become a reality

Striving to live by our values at EML, to support each other and our wider community, we are proud to have maintained an affiliation with Timperley Villa, a local sports club based…
20 October 2020

HR / Employment Law News

New Coronavirus Regulations – What employers need to know

As of 12.00am on 28th September 2020 the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 came into force. They set out mandatory periods for self-isolation, and a duty to notify the…
29 September 2020

HR / Employment Law News

The Job Support Scheme

With the much publicised ‘Furlough’ scheme drawing to an end on 31st October 2020, and the seemingly inevitable second spike of Coronavirus, there has been the understandable concern about what this will…
28 September 2020

HR / Employment Law News

Now work from home if possible…

Another u-turn, as the media like to tell us? Or is the Government reacting like you, as business owners and leaders. The PM’s statement in Parliament, Tuesday 22nd September, on raising the…
24 September 2020

HR / Employment Law News

Employee Self-Isolation – Guidance for Employers

The most important symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are recent onset of any of the following: a new continuous cough a high temperature a loss of, or change in, your normal sense of…
10 August 2020

Health & Safety News

HSE resumes workplace inspections

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced it is restarting “proactive” inspections, as a large proportion of the country returns to work following the easing of lockdown restrictions. The move follows…
2 July 2020

HR / Employment Law News

Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging has proved to be an invaluable means of communicating with staff who are working from home, with applications such as Microsoft Teams, Slack and Whatsapp being increasingly used on a…
23 June 2020

HR / Employment Law News

Third-party Harassment

Despite the fact that employers are not vicariously liable for third-party harassment against their employees, they have an established duty of care to do what is reasonable to protect them from such…
18 June 2020

HR / Employment Law News

Discrimination at Work

Despite increased awareness of its impact, discrimination in the workplace remains commonplace, and poses a significant challenge to employers.  The potential consequences include costly legal action (with unlimited compensatory awards in the…
22 May 2020