Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by William Hampshire
Employment Rights Act 2025
UK employment law reform: the next phase UK employment law is undergoing one of its most significant periods of reform in decades. The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces a broad programme of changes intended to strengthen employment protections and modernise workplace rights and industrial relations.
Employment Rights Act 2025
UK employment law reform: the next phase UK employment law is undergoing one of its most significant periods of reform in decades. The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces a broad programme of changes intended to strengthen employment protections and modernise workplace rights and industrial relations.
UK Labor Law - Legislation For Proposed Significant Reforms Unveiled
SS Seyfarth Shaw LLP More With more than 900 lawyers across 18 offices, Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides advisory, litigation, and transactional legal services to clients worldwide. Our high-caliber legal representation and advanced delivery capabilities allow us to take on our clients’ unique challenges and opportunities-no matter the scale or complexity.
UK Labor Law – Legislation For Proposed Significant Reforms Unveiled | JD Supra
The UK’s new Labour government published its highly anticipated Employment Rights Bill last week. In total, the draft Bill contains 28 stand-alone employment law reforms (including many of the changes that we outlined in our blog post earlier this year - see Significant UK Labor Law Reforms on the Horizon).
Significant UK Labor Law Reforms on the Horizon: What the Labour Party’s General Election Victory Means for Employers in the UK
Seyfarth Synopsis: Following the Labour Party’s victory in the General Election on 4 July 2024, it is now expected that they will keep their promise of tabling some significant legislative changes to the UK’s labor law within their first 100 days of government.
Significant UK Labor Law Reforms on the Horizon: What the Labour Party’s General Election Victory Means for Employers in the UK | JD Supra
July 5, 2024 William Hampshire, Verity Musselwhite Steel, Yannick Ramsamy, Paul Whinder Seyfarth Shaw LLP + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Following the Labour Party’s victory in the General Election on 4 July 2024, it is now expected that they will keep their promise of tabling some significant legislative changes to the UK’s labor law within their first 100 days of government.
UK Government Moves To Limit Non-Competes
The UK government has announced that it will bring in legislation to restrict the post-employment non-compete restraints to three months. This is a significant proposal as currently non-compete restrictions in the UK are generally capable of being enforced for a period up to 12 months (if they are "no more restrictive than is reasonably necessary to protect the employer's legitimate business interests'').
UK Government Moves to Limit Non-Competes | JD Supra
May 18, 2023 To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The UK government has announced that it will bring in legislation to restrict the post-employment non-compete restraints to three months. This is a significant proposal as currently non-compete restrictions in the UK are generally capable of being enforced for a period up to 12 months (if they are “no more restrictive than is reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate business interests’’).
UK Government Moves to Limit Non-Competes
This post was originally published to Seyfarth’s Trading Secrets blog. The UK government has announced that it will bring in legislation to restrict the post-employment non-compete restraints to three months. This is a significant proposal as currently non-compete restrictions in the UK are generally capable of being enforced for a period up to 12 months (if they are “no more restrictive than is reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate business interests’’).
UK Government Moves to Limit Non-Competes
The UK government has announced that it will bring in legislation to restrict the post-employment non-compete restraints to three months. This is a significant proposal as currently non-compete restrictions in the UK are generally capable of being enforced for a period up to 12 months (if they are “no more restrictive than is reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate business interests’’).
UK Government Moves to Limit Non-Competes | Seyfarth Shaw
The UK government has announced that it will bring in legislation to restrict the post-employment non-compete restraints to three months. This is a significant proposal as currently non-compete restrictions in the UK are generally capable of being enforced for a period up to 12 months (if they are “no more restrictive than is reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate business interests’’).
The Global Workplace Post-Pandemic - the Road Ahead | JD Supra
After what began like a cannon shot in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to now be very slowly drifting into endemicity. While Seyfarth continues to advance industry thinking on the Future of Work, employers must not lose sight of the short-term demands and risks they face in the days and weeks to come.
Face Coverings Outside the US - One Size Doesn’t Fit All | JD Supra
In the same way that COVID-19 has impacted every country, does the scientific response to it also apply universally? Given the CDC now recommends wearing face coverings throughout the workplace, US employers may feel they are “doing the right thing” by extending the same principle across all their work locations. But in some countries, mask wearing is either not accepted as reducing the COVID risk, or there are surprising obstacles to mask wearing.
First UK Supreme Court Decision on Restrictive Covenants for 100 years | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
Europe’s Gender Pay Gap Rules Gather Momentum | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with William
Contact William, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack