Employment disputes

26/11/2025

Your rights if it’s too cold in the workplace

As the cold winter weather arrives with a vengeance, employers have a responsibility to make sure their staff can work at a comfortable temperature.
24/11/2025

Working on Christmas Day – your rights if you end up on the rota

It's a day of rest for millions, but for others it’s double the workload as business continues as normal, albeit with fewer staff. Can you refuse to work?
19/11/2025

Be on your best behaviour at your work Christmas party

Thanks to social media, your behaviour at any work-related party could be posted to a global audience in seconds. Here’s how to avoid an incident and work problems at your work Christmas party.
04/10/2024

Top 10 Settlement Agreement tips for employers

The purpose of a Settlement Agreement is to bring an employment relationship to an end by mutual agreement. Here are our top 10 tips for moving people on with settlement agreements.
04/10/2024

My employer is advertising my job. Where do I stand?

ARAG Law’s Lauren Woolf explains what to do if you find out your employer has been advertising your job without informing you that you are being dismissed.
04/10/2024

International Stress Awareness Month: Your workplace rights

To mark International Stress Awareness Month, Sarah Garner takes a look at what the law says your employer needs to do about workplace stress.
04/10/2024

How “purpose or reasonable effect” can affect workplace harassment cases

Harassment in the workplace has come under a spotlight in the last few years and employers have put their policies and practices under the spotlight to ensure they are doing all they can to eliminate it.
04/08/2024

Don’t get a red card while watching the World Cup at work

If you are planning on watching World Cup matches at work, there are a number of important things to consider.
06/06/2024

10 top TUPE tips for employers – Transferees

TUPE kicks in when there is a transfer of a business from one organisation to another or there is a service provision change from one provider to another.
02/05/2024

What employers need to know about performance management and grievances

The effective management of employee performance is a cornerstone of organisational success.
30/04/2024

Managing absence – an employer’s perspective

Employers must navigate the delicate balance between supporting staff welfare and ensuring operational efficiency.
23/04/2024

Employee, self-employed or worker? – The Bitesized Edition

Employment status can be complex if an organisation does not define the relationship with an individual clearly and reflective of the actual relationship in practice.
07/04/2024

10 top TUPE tips for employers – Transferors

Here are our top 10 TUPE tips for the Transferor – this is usually the seller of the business to another or a client seeking to outsource a service.
05/04/2024

Workplace stress: Your responsibilities as an employer

Commenting on Stress Awareness Week, Sarah Garner, Solicitor at ARAG Law, looks at what the law says employers needs to do about stress.
28/03/2024

Don’t get in trouble with the law on April Fool’s Day

As April Fool’s Day approaches, many are looking forward to playing some elaborate and funny pranks on family members, friends, and colleagues.
29/02/2024

Do employees get extra pay on a leap year day?

Every four years, many workers find themselves cramming an extra day of work into an already packed year. But are workers in the UK entitled to extra pay for this extra work?
08/02/2024

How Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave regulations are changing this year – The Bitesize Edition

In this Bitesized Edition, we look at the new Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations, set to come into force on 6 April 2024.
29/01/2024

How flexible working regulations are changing this year – The Bitesize Edition

Amendments to the current flexible working legislation will come into force this year. Any flexible working applications made on or after 6 April 2024 must be dealt with in accordance with the regulations.
17/01/2024

Holiday Pay Guidance from the Government – The Bitesize Edition

The Government has issued guidance on calculating holiday pay to simplify holiday entitlement for irregular hours and part-year workers.
25/07/2023

How employers can prevent harassment or bullying in the workplace

Employers can be liable for employees who have subjected other employees to harassment in the workplace if they have not taken reasonable steps to prevent harassment.
12/07/2023

Restrictive covenants in employment contracts – what the government is proposing

Post termination restrictive covenants in employment contracts are used to protect a business when employees are departing who may have had access to trade secrets, strategic plans, financial plans and customer or client confidential information.
19/06/2023

The Sunset Clause Removal: Retaining and discarding EU Law – The Bitesized Edition

Following Brexit, in September 2022 the government introduced a bill creating powers to revoke, amend, replace, restate or assimilate approximately 2,400 pieces of EU Law.
12/01/2023

What you need to know about settlement agreements

Has your employer discussed a Settlement Agreement or Compromise Agreement with you? Learn more about these agreements and their implications on your ability to claim in the future.
12/01/2023

What you need to know about constructive & wrongful dismissal

If you feel forced to resign, this may count as constructive dismissal. If you are dismissed in breach of the terms of your employment contract, this is known as wrongful dismissal.
12/01/2023

Dismissal and Redundancy: 7 things employees need to know

Molly-Ellen Turecek and Simon Roberts from ARAG Law look at what an employee needs to know about redundancy.
25/07/2022

Public transport strikes – your employment rights if you are unable to get to work

What happens if you can’t make it to work this week due to transport issues? Simon Roberts looks at some key legal facts.
14/07/2022

What employers should do during a heatwave

What are an employer's obligations to employees when the weather gets too hot? Lewys Traylor gives the lowdown.
27/06/2022

What employees need to know about NDAs and confidentiality clauses

What is a Non-Disclosure Agreement? Ryan James from ARAG Law takes an in-depth look.
08/06/2022

Flexible working – 5 key questions answered

To make a flexible working request, you must be an employee, have at least 26 weeks continuous service, and have not already made a request in the last 12 months.
29/04/2022

Can employees legally refuse to return to the workplace

Across the country the calls for employees to return to the workplace. Simon Roberts, Senior Associate at ARAG Law, looks at what you need to know.
04/04/2022

The gender pay gap: 5 key things employees need to know

With the deadline for companies to publish their gender pay gap data looming, all private sector companies and charities are required to publish their data by 5th April 2022.
13/05/2021

Is there a time limit for providing an employee with a P45?

As an employer, you are required to tell HMRC when somebody leaves or retires, and deduct and pay the correct tax and National Insurance.
04/05/2020

Health and safety and computers

Now that many of us have entered the world of remote working, ARAG Law’s Bethan Mack explains how employers need to manage the risks to their employees when they’re working at computers for long periods of time.
15/10/2019

What you need to know about pay and wages

The law seeks to provide a fair structure and ensure that we are appropriately compensated for our efforts, and that employers cannot underpay or exploit us when it comes to our wages. Bethan Mack looks at some of the basics.
01/05/2019

When can company directors be personally liable?

The recent High Court case of Antzuzis & Others v DJ Houghton Catching Services & Others [2019] EWHC 843 (QB) is a stark reminder of how company directors can be personally liable for their acts. ARAG Law Solicitor Andrew Oberholzer explains.
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Employment disputes

Your rights if it’s too cold in the workplace

Working on Christmas Day – your rights if you end up on the rota

Be on your best behaviour at your work Christmas party

Top 10 Settlement Agreement tips for employers

My employer is advertising my job. Where do I stand?

International Stress Awareness Month: Your workplace rights

How “purpose or reasonable effect” can affect workplace harassment cases

Don’t get a red card while watching the World Cup at work

10 top TUPE tips for employers – Transferees

What employers need to know about performance management and grievances

Managing absence – an employer’s perspective

Employee, self-employed or worker? – The Bitesized Edition

10 top TUPE tips for employers – Transferors

Workplace stress: Your responsibilities as an employer

Don’t get in trouble with the law on April Fool’s Day

Do employees get extra pay on a leap year day?

How Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave regulations are changing this year – The Bitesize Edition

How flexible working regulations are changing this year – The Bitesize Edition

Holiday Pay Guidance from the Government – The Bitesize Edition

How employers can prevent harassment or bullying in the workplace

Restrictive covenants in employment contracts – what the government is proposing

The Sunset Clause Removal: Retaining and discarding EU Law – The Bitesized Edition

What you need to know about settlement agreements

What you need to know about constructive & wrongful dismissal

Dismissal and Redundancy: 7 things employees need to know

Public transport strikes – your employment rights if you are unable to get to work

What employers should do during a heatwave

What employees need to know about NDAs and confidentiality clauses

Flexible working – 5 key questions answered

Can employees legally refuse to return to the workplace

The gender pay gap: 5 key things employees need to know

Is there a time limit for providing an employee with a P45?

Health and safety and computers

What you need to know about pay and wages

When can company directors be personally liable?

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