World Menopause Month 2025 – Lifestyle Medicine
This year for Menopause Awareness month we move away from hormone therapy and delve into what we can do when it comes to Lifestyle Medicine and our menopause journey.
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Menopause Awareness Month 2025
The Employment Rights Bill is in its final stages of the parliamentary process. It includes new legislation on enhanced workplace support for menopausal women. This legislation, expected to come into force in 2026 recognises that Menopause is no longer a “silent” topic in the workplace. Across the UK, businesses are waking up to the reality that this natural life transition deserves attention, support, and proper structure in the workplace.
Read MoreNon-disclosure agreements and discrimination allegations
I was speaking to a group of employers in London recently about the Government's recently introduced proposal to ban confidentiality clauses (or NDAs to use the American terminology) in cases involving discrimination allegations. Judging by their worried looks and their comments, this is a development that is causing employers a lot of concern.
Read More25 Years of Sherrards!
Last year we reached the 25th anniversary of Sherrards Employment Law Solicitors. In late 1999, after leaving the firm where I had been a partner, I travelled up to Emirates’ office in London and started Sherrards in their ground floor foyer.
Read MoreSpeaking Up
As the fallout from the Harrods sexual harassment cases continues, and with Al Fayed being compared to Jimmy Savile, it makes us question once again why on earth people were so reluctant to speak up.
Read MoreEmployment Rights Bill Unveiled
In the 2024 General Election campaign, the Labour Party gave prominence to their manifesto commitment of "Making Work Pay". We were promised the greatest shakeup of individual employment rights in a generation, along with a commitment to progress this to legislation within 100 days of winning the election.
Read MoreMenopause Awareness Month
The theme for World Menopause Day 2024 is Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT).
Read MoreSexual Harassment in the Workplace
“Handy Andy we used to call him! You had to keep your back to the wall if you were getting in a lift with him….! Everyone just accepted it; it was normal….” I will keep the source of this recently heard anecdote anonymous, for obvious reasons, but we’ve all heard stories like it from (usually female) friends and colleagues about their experiences of working in offices and factories of the not-too-distant past.
Read MoreWeaponization of Subject Access Requests
It is now the rule rather than the exception for claimants to make a subject access request alongside their tribunal claim. Subject access requests are not new, but the GDPR legislation heightened awareness has led to a significant increase in requests being received by employers.
Read MoreFlexible Working – New Legislation 6th April 2024
Revised Flexible Working Regulations were published in December, to take effect on 6 April 2024.
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