The world of work is changing fast—and so is employment law. With new reforms coming into play across 2025 and 2026, there’s a growing focus on fairness, transparency, and how…
Employee Relations
New Mock Investigation Events Coming to Manchester & Birmingham this Summer
HR professionals – do workplace investigations ever feel messy, time-consuming, and overwhelming for your managers? You’re not alone… but we’re here to help. This summer, we’re bringing our interactive, face-to-face…
Managing Sickness Absence: Tips for your Managers
When a member of your team goes off sick and the absence becomes prolonged, how to manage the sickness absence can seem unstructured for managers as there aren’t specific ‘trigger…
Gender Equality: 4 Different Approaches to Making a Positive Change in your Organisation
The theme of International Women’s Day 2025 is Gender Equality. What does this mean to women in the workplace? It might be achieving equality of women in senior roles, that…
Diversity and Inclusion Employee Relations Gender Pay Gap Learning
Tips for Investigating Claims of Sexual Harassment at Work
Investigating claims of sexual harassment can be particularly complex and sensitive, so appointing a skilled and experienced investigator in these cases can make a huge difference. Often the evidence is…
Disengaged Employees? Don’t Reach for the Survey Button Yet!
When organisations want to increase productivity and employee engagement within the workforce, it can be all too easy to reach for the ‘employee engagement survey’ button. As HR professionals we…
Managing Conflict in the Workplace: A 4 Point Plan for HR Teams
Managing conflict in the workplace requires an understanding of the contributory factors and personal impact on each party. Left unresolved, conflict damages long term relationships, lowers morale and threatens productivity.…
Five Steps to Better Grievance Procedures
The increase in employment tribunal claims could mark the beginning of a new era for employee relations. With this, comes an increased pressure on organisations and HR teams to better…
Employee Relations Employment Tribunal Representation Investigations
The Do’s and Don’ts of The Grievance Process
As employment law advisers, we are frequently asked about grievances and issues surrounding the grievance process, which put us to thinking: what is it about a grievance that fills us…
Middle Managers and Employee Relations: A Turbulent Relationship
At a recent CIPD Conference and Exhibition, Vista’s Head of Learning, Vicky Roberts, shared some insights published by our sister company, esphr, into how managers and HR feel about how employee relations (ER) issues are managed in their organisations.