Read our latest legal updates, news, and blogs below.
Subscribe to our mailing list to ensure you stay up to date with our latest legal news and expert insights.
Filters
News articles
Counting the cost: Understanding your ethnicity pay gap guide
We are pleased to share our new guide: Counting the cost: Understanding your ethnicity pay gap, co-produced with NHS Providers, the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS.
The new Employment Rights Bill: what employers need to know
In this first in a series of posts focusing on the new Employment Rights Bill, Andrew Davidson provides an overview of the bill as published.
Hempsons welcomes new employment law partner Saira Ramadan
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Saira Ramadan as a partner in our employment law team, based in our London office.
Hempsons and NHS Providers launch joint guide to tackle racial discrimination in disciplinaries
In collaboration with NHS Providers, we have published a comprehensive guide for trust leaders on how to tackle racial discrimination in disciplinary procedures and to create a more inclusive and equitable work environment.
Navigating TUPE: Transferring staff to a new PCN company
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE, offers protections for employees when a business or service provider changes hands.
Getting ready for the COVID-19 Public Inquiry – webinars
We have launched our COVID-19 inquiry webinar series.
Implications for employers of lifting Covid-19 restrictions
The government has published its COVID-19 Response: Summer 2021 (Roadmap) setting out the details of step 4 of the roadmap out of restrictions for England. The restriction are scheduled to be lifted on 19 July 2021. Hempsons' employment law team discuss the guidance.
New Guidance on severance payments and approval for public sector employers
The government has published new guidance for the public sector on making termination of employment/severance payments to employees.
Covid-19: Key legal considerations arising from the pandemic
Hempsons and NHS Providers launch guide covering the legal liabilities that are likely to arise due to the pandemic.
Hempsons welcomes new partner to head up its employment team in London
Hempsons is delighted to announce that Jon Pearce has joined our employment team in London.
Trusts and local partners taking bold approaches to overcome workforce challenges and meet local population need
The move to integrated care and partnership working between health and care organisations can help the sector to overcome severe workforce challenges, according to a new briefing from NHS Providers with input from Hempsons.
Hempsons’ Healthcare Newsbrief
Welcome to our Autumn/Winter 2019/2020 edition of Hempsons’ Healthcare Newsbrief.
GP locums may be eligible for holiday pay – Narayan v Community Based Care Health Limited
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an Employment Tribunal decision that a GP locum was a “worker” and was entitled to holiday pay.
Newsflash: The HSJ and Hempsons webinar on the Fit and Proper Person Test
The Fit and Proper Person Test is meant to ensure that anyone at director level in the NHS has the attributes and values needed for the job.