Next Stage for Employment Rights Bill – June 2025
The Employment Rights Bill has now completed the most intensive part of its passage through the House of Lords and is now heading into the final parliamentary stretch. Employment Rights Bill completes House of Lords Second Reading The Lords’ committee stage finished on 24 June after eleven days of line-by-line scrutiny. Peers tabled […]
New UK Global Talent Taskforce: Fast-Tracked Overseas Recruitment
The UK Government has launched a Global Talent Taskforce, alongside a £54 million Global Talent Fund, to attract world-leading researchers, innovators and high-calibre creatives to the United Kingdom. Announced on 22 June 2025 by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Department for Business and Trade, the initiative aims to supercharge the […]
MAC’s UK Family Visa Review: ‘Lower Salary Threshold’
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has today published its long-awaited review of the financial requirement for UK family visas. Commissioned in response to widespread criticism of the Conservative government’s decision to raise the threshold from £18,600 to £29,000, and with a proposed increase to £38,700 still under consideration, the MAC was asked by the Labour […]
BRP & BRC Grace Period Ends – eVisas Now Mandatory for UK Travel
From 2 June 2025, travellers to the UK can no longer use expired Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) or EU Settlement Scheme Biometric Residence Cards (BRCs) as proof of their immigration status. Only digital eVisas will now be accepted to confirm permission to enter the UK, with limited exceptions. This follows the end of the Home […]
Employment Case Law Update May 2025
Read on for our monthly digest for employers on upcoming employment law changes and key, recent employment tribunal cases. HR Consultants as Agents Handa v Station Hotel (Newcastle) Ltd and Others Mr Handa brought employment claims against his former employer, The Station Hotel (Newcastle) Ltd, arising from his dismissal. Central to the […]
UK/EU Youth Experience Scheme: Hiring Relief?
The UK and European Union have announced plans to develop a new “youth experience scheme”, as part of broader efforts to rebuild post-Brexit cooperation in areas such as trade, security and people-to-people exchange. Although full details of the youth scheme have yet to be finalised, both sides have confirmed their intention to negotiate a formal […]
Temporary Shortage List to Replace Immigration Salary List
The Immigration Salary List is to be removed and will be replaced by a Temporary Shortage List for certain sub-degree occupations under the UK’s work visa sponsorship regime. What is changing? In May 2025, the UK Government released its immigration white paper, Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, introducing significant reforms aimed at […]
Care Worker Visa Route to Close
The UK Government has confirmed that care workers will be removed from the visa sponsorship regime, bringing an end to overseas recruitment of care workers. The announcement forms part of the May 2025 immigration white paper, Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, which outlines wide-ranging changes to work visa eligibility and skilled worker access as […]
Immigration White Paper 2025: Essential Guide
The UK Government has today published its immigration white paper, ‘Restoring Control Over the Immigration System’. The paper outlines a series of proposals intended to reduce net migration and reshape access to work routes, with a headline focus on raising skill thresholds and curbing lower-paid migration. The removal of care workers from sponsorship eligibility and […]
Update: Gig Economy Right to Work Checks
The government is introducing a new clause to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill that would widen the current right to work framework to include more flexible working arrangements. If implemented, the new rules will broaden the scope of the existing right to work regime to cover organisations using so-called gig economy workers. […]