Jessica Agache-Gorse

On 09 June, Tarmac announced that going forward it would be providing free period care products to all its female UK employees. This move is part of an overall policy to support and include women...

Aon, the UK-headquartered insurance broker, provider of reinsurance and human capital consulting organisation, announced on 7 June the launch of a carers’ leave policy, which will allow its 6,000...

On 05 June and amid a series of scandals and allegations over an abusive corporate culture and senior management misconduct (including sexual harassment, assault, and rape) at the CBI...

Called ‘Term-time contracts’, these employment contracts mean UK staff (75,000) do not work during their children’s school holidays. This new arrangement is currently only available for staff at...

The British Standards Institute, the UK’s national standards body, has published a document setting out how employers should support staff dealing with menopause and menstruation. “The...

In response to an open letter published by the recruitment platform Liberty Hive, which in January launched a campaign calling for a law requiring salary transparency on the part of companies, the...

On 24 May King Charles III signed the Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill into law. Once in force, this legislation will afford pregnant women and new parents extended...

The iconic UK retailer chain’s Neonatal Paid Leave policy now means its 65,000 employees can take up to 12 weeks fully paid if their baby requires specialist neonatal care. In this way the group...

On 24 May the UK government published updated figures on trade union membership for the period 1995-2022, and according to which the proportion of union affiliated workers has fallen for the...

On 18 May, the UK telecommunications giant said it intends to shed up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, with the bulk of the losses centred on its UK operations where its current headcount totals 80,000...

At the end of 2023 some 600 EU regulations currently in place in the UK will cease to operate. The UK government has just published the list of those destined to be abolished and recently...

On 15 May, Vodafone Ireland, the UK telecommunications giant’s wholly owned Irish subsidiary announced its new ‘Caring for Vulnerable Others’ policy. The scheme will allow the...