MFMac: Employment Law

In our most recent employment podcast, Innes Clark and David Hossack, partners in our Employment team, discuss the Government's job retention scheme to help support employers and individuals during the coronavirus outbreak. They discuss the new concept of "furloughed workers" and in a postscript David touches on the position for the self-employed. Our fact sheet on the Government's job retention s...

In our latest employment law podcast Innes Clark and David Hossack discuss how an Employment Tribunal calculates an unfair dismissal award.

In our latest podcast Pamela Macaulay talks to David Hossack about whistleblowing and whether an employer can subject a worker to a "detriment" by defending its reputation.

In our latest employment podcast Alan Delaney and David Hossack discuss managing coronavirus in the workplace

In our latest employment podcast Innes Clark and David Hossack explore situations where there is sometimes a perception that an employee cannot be dismissed.

In this week's employment law podcast, Innes Clark talks to David Hossack about important changes to contracts of employment which take effect in April.

As storm Ciara leaves us and storm Dennis approaches, David Hossack speaks to Kate Sutherland about the key points employers should consider when bad weather strikes.

Stuart McWilliams and Pamela Macaulay discuss the recent Migration Advisory Committee Report and what future immigration law might mean for businesses looking to recruit from outside the UK. 

In the latest in our employment law podcast series, Innes Clark talks to David Hossack about the new statutory bereavement leave entitlement.

As the UK finally exits the EU, David Hossack talks to Caitlin Fitzgerald about the influence that EU law has had on UK employment law and the potential implications of Brexit for workers' rights.

Against the backdrop of #metoo and the start of the Harvey Weinstein criminal trial, Pamela Macaulay talks to David Hossack about the new and the positive steps employers can take to prevent this type of conduct in the workplace.

For the fifth episode in our podcast series, Sarah Gilzean talks to David Hossack about Samira Ahmed's high profile victory in her equal pay claim against the BBC and explains why the case should be sounding alarm bells for many employers who do not have a clear and transparent systems for valuing jobs and setting pay.

In our first podcast of 2020, David Hossack and Innes Clark look ahead to the key employment law changes that are due to take place in the first half of 2020

In the fourth podcast of our new series David Hossack and Innes Clark discuss what's coming up for employment law as revealed in the Queen's Speech.

The Queen's Speech - Employment law implications In the fourth podcast of our new series David Hossack and Innes Clark discuss what's coming up for employment law as revealed in the Queen's Speech

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In this first podcast in a new series, David Hossack and Alan Delaney discuss a very recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights which looked at whether employees' right to privacy was violated when their employer used covert video surveillance to address a serious issue of theft in the workplace. Where is the balance to be struck between an employer's right to protect its property and a...

David Hossack a partner and accredited mediator chats with Alun Thomas, Chair and Graham Boyack, Director of Scottish Mediation about Scottish Mediation's report "Bringing Mediation into the Mainstream in Civil Justice in Scotland" The report referenced can be found here

David Hossack a partner and accredited mediator chats with Graham Boyack, director of Scottish Mediation about the Scottish Justice Committee's Report "I won't see you in court."

"Stuck in the Middle" is a new podcast series that explores mediation in Scotland. In the first episode, we chat with Graham Boyack, director of Scottish Mediation about the role mediation plays in resolving conflict and the various ways in which mediation can be used outside of conflict resolution.

David Hossack and David Walker discuss the recent gender pay gap regulations which will affect employers in the private and third sectors with 250 or more employees.