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Manufacturing Update

We round-up the latest news affecting manufacturers. 

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May 2024

  • UK manufacturing sector enhances employee retention through comprehensive benefits and shift premiums
  • Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive incoming
  • Falling FDI in UK firms signals need to seize investment zone and freeport opportunities
  • Apprenticeship contracts: six expensive traps for the unwary
  • Environmental weekly news round up – 17 May 2024

April 2024

  • The impact of mandatory ESG reporting on engineering businesses
  • How can employers better support autistic employees in the workplace?
  • Watch now: flexible working in 2024 – the barriers and the benefits
  • Advancing the future: MACH showcases cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and sustainable solutions

March 2024

  • The bumpy road to Net Zero
  • Apprenticeship contracts: six traps for the unwary
  • Supply chain disruption as a result of war and conflict – is your business protected?
  • Holiday pay: what are the new rules and what do employers need to do to comply with them?

February 2024

  • Uncovering the concept of 'bluewashing'
  • Business interruption insurance claims: where are we now and where are we going to?
  • Employment law: 2024 at a glance
  • Happy Biodiversity Net Gain commencement date
  • Environmental weekly news round up 

January 2024

  • Employment law changes 2024: guide for HR and line managers
  • Use your trade marks, or lose them: the Ferrari Testarossa case study
  • Government adjusts salary increase for partner visas following nationwide criticism
  • Environmental weekly news round up

November 2023

  • Manufacturing ranked in the top four for equal pay disputes
  • The rapid evolution of Gen-AI raises cybersecurity concerns
  • The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: an overview
  • Environmental news round up - 10 November 2023
  • Workers get new right to request predictable working hours

October 2023

  • Report: Irwin Mitchell’s Foreign Direct Investment Index
  • ESG: What’s Now & What’s Next
  • Extended Producer Responsibility: Insights from the EPR consultation response
  • UK NSI: a reminder of why it’s so important for investors
  • Menopause: What the latest CIPD survey shows

September 2023

  • Building resilience for Manufacturing businesses in challenging times
  • Empowering food manufacturers to thrive amidst economic challenges
  • The Great Retrofit: an opportunity or a threat?
  • Navigating GDPR: a comprehensive guide to ensuring compliance
  • Environmental news round up - 8 September 2023

August 2023

  • UK manufacturing sector continues to attract overseas investors according to latest M&A analysis
  • Irwin Mitchell's Corporate team advises on MBO of precision steel tube manufacturer
  • Government waters down proposed new duty to prevent sexual harassment
  • Environmental news round up - 11 August 2023

July 2023

  • Navigating the Green Revolution: The legal path to circular and transparent manufacturing
  • Elevating UK Manufacturing
  • Watch now: Corporate Greenwashing
  • Breaking news: employers can't engage agency staff to cover striking workers
  • Environmental news round up - 14 July 2023

June 2023

  • Manufacturers see fall in cyber-related data breaches
  • Manufacturing and the journey towards net zero
  • Podcast: post-Brexit changes to employment law
  • Forging closer economic ties with Israel
  • Webinar: banter; making or breaking barriers?

May 2023

  • Podcast: the route to net zero in manufacturing
  • ESG: investors call on businesses to reduce plastic use or face financial consequences
  • Housebuilder fined £480,000 for failure to prevent multiple pollution incidents
  • Government pours water on its “bonfire of employment rights” as reality dawns

April 2023

  • April rate increases employers need to know about
  • ESG: are parent companies liable for their subsidiaries’ impact?
  • MEES changes are in force – landlords must act
  • Is diversity and inclusion (D&I) the key to unlocking growth and productivity in the UK?

March 2023

  • Manufacturing M&A in UK reached six year high in 2022
  • Report: redefining the office
  • Building a sustainable future: the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Three important lessons learned from the success of the four-day working week trial

February 2023

  • Do you have to pay staff if you can’t operate your business due to energy blackouts?
  • Interest rate hedging: an introduction for borrowers and current market trends
  • Cross-border M&A activity into the UK remains strong despite Q4 blip
  • Cost of living: can’t afford to give employees a pay rise? Here’s how you can help
  • Dangerous workplaces: Court of Appeal explains when an employee can refuse to come into work
  • Irwin Mitchell’s ESG advisory service brings together 80 service lines

January 2023

  • Advanced manufacturing leads the way as UK forecast to exit recession in H1 2023
  • Survey reveals the reality of ‘quiet firing’ in the manufacturing sector
  • Employment law changes 2023: guide for HR and line managers
  • Report: What's on the Horizon? - the outlook for the real estate sector in 2023

November 2022

  • Fly-tipping and consequences for landowners
  • World Cup 2022: eight workplace issues HR need to be aware of
  • Strikes: government set to introduce minimum transport service levels to ensure people can get to work and children to school

October 2022

  • Being alive to the warning signs is so crucial in a business crisis
  • Immigration: sponsorship licence process and avoidable challenges
  • Irwin Mitchell announces new manufacturing sector lead
  • Can employers insist that staff use other people's preferred pronouns?
  • Forget the 'great resignation': quiet quitting is in vogue (and it's bad news for employers)

September 2022

  • Creating a crisis: energy woes and rising costs causing issues for manufacturers
  • Honesty is the best policy
  • Hydrogen powered delivery vehicles: a glimpse into the future?
  • Brace yourself: new bill may fundamentally change employment law by the end of 2023

August 2022

  • Beyond all reasonable drought? What a drought announcement could mean for England
  • 80% work for 100% pay: what you need to know about the four-day working week
  • Houst Safeguards 300 Jobs As Court Sanctions SME Restructuring Plan
  • What can employers learn from the latest case on gender-critical discrimination?

July 2022

  • Managing shift workers: how to avoid legal pitfalls
  • Irwin Mitchell advise on major global aerospace deal
  • Feeling hot, hot, hot: what's the maximum legal temperature staff can work in?
  • Is the UK still attracting M&A from abroad?
  • FLI publishes latest global investing advice

June 2022

  • What makes making things so hard? The continuing pressures faced by manufacturers
  • Irwin Mitchell advises on global manufacturing deal
  • Full steam ahead for net zero
  • The bald truth: can making a derogatory remark about a man's lack of hair amount to harassment related to sex?
  • Long COVID and disability: what HR need to know

May 2022

  • Manufacturing and collaborative R&D - Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha work together on standardised battery
  • How Foreign Investment Is Shaping The UK Economy
  • How will the new UK vertical block exemption (VABEO) impact your relationships with your distributors?
  • Five free resources to help your organisation support peri-menopausal and menopausal staff
  • Shift patterns, childcare and indirect sex discrimination claims
     

April 2022

  • Net Zero Strategy: Friend of the Earth's legal challenge granted permission
  • The Energy Security Strategy – Providing very little security at all
  • Tackling The Menopause Taboo
  • Government rejects compulsory ethnic pay gap reporting
  • EAT decides that employee who took voluntary redundancy could claim unfair dismissal

March 2022

  • New Survey Reveals Latest Office Occupier Trends Within Manufacturing Sector
  • When it rains, it pours! - 2022: The perfect storm in manufacturing?
  • Diverse boards = better profits. So why is it taking so long to improve diversity?
  • What is the employment status of a company director and shareholder paid a salary and performing work for it?
  • CWEIC & Us – A Growing Partnership Creating Opportunities Across The Commonwealth

February 2022

  • Podcast: mentoring in a new work environment
  • Manufacturing sector reveals deals boost as acquisitions increase during 2021
  • Net zero future dominates agenda at National Manufacturing Summit
  • Climate change litigation – a growing global trend

November 2021

  • Listen now: what the 2050 net zero goal means for manufacturers
  • Can the production of super strong magnets attract green manufacturing growth in the UK?
  • How can manufacturers and universities join forces on decarbonising and fuel switching?
  • Deadline approaching for government’s flexible working consultation
  • Knowledge and disability: what should you do if you find out someone is disabled after you’ve dismissed them?
     

October 2021

  • Five ways manufacturers can attract and retain staff
  • Expert support and advice critical as shortages increase financial pressure on manufacturers
  • Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers: Sustaining green claims throughout the supply chain
  • Employer loses discrimination claim after sacking two male directors to reduce its gender pay gap
  • What you need to know about doing business in Canada

September 2021

  • Manufacturing M&A levels show positive signs after COVID lockdowns
  • Is the government going to compel large employers to report on their ethnic pay gaps?
  • The challenge of hybrid working (and how to respond)
  • Government's vision to transform disabled peoples' working lives: will anything change?

August 2021

  • From asset finance to AFK: Impacts of the global semiconductor shortage beyond the auto industry and UK government responses
  • Industry’s big green drive needs far more direction
  • Beware Greenwashing: Sustaining environmental claims in advertising in 2021
  • Government's vision to transform disabled peoples' working lives: will anything change?
  • Many Businesses Yet To Grasp Significance of Brexit Divergence on Parallel Trading Laws

July 2021

  • Hybrid working: Challenges for manufacturers
  • Virtual Event: Embracing Sustainability: Opportunities For Manufacturers
  • Interim relaxation of drivers' hours rules risk exposing employers to financial liabilities
  • Understanding The Challenges Of MEES And The Importance Of Acting Now
  • Employers guide to the NHS test and trace app

June 2021

  • The Impact of Brexit on UK Exporting Businesses
  • When trouble at work is brewing
  • Intellectual Property Audits
  • Podcast: Foreign Direct Investment and the UK Economy
  • Right to work checks - a trap for the unwary

May 2021

  • Foreign Direct Investment and the UK economy
  • Right to work checks - COVID flexibility now due to end on 20 June
  • Solent Freeport set to make waves: what we know so far about the Freeport
  • Landmark Case With Data Protection Implications Underway
  • EU settlement scheme: what options do your staff have if they miss the deadline?

April 2021

  • Lawyers Welcome Chancellor’s Freeport Announcement
  • Home Office reverses immigration rules on 'foreign suppliers'
  • COVID-19: employee who refused to wear a mask was fairly dismissed
  • Modern Slavery Reporting Requirements
  • Employment Appeals Tribunal starts to diffuse the holiday pay time bomb

March 2021

  • UK Border Check Delay Brings Brief Brexit Respite For Import Businesses
  • Roadmap out of lockdown - implications for employers
  • EU’s ‘Assertive’ Trade Policy Is A Shot Across UK’s Brexit Bow

February 2021

  • Brexit fails to deliver Northern Ireland packages
  • Changes to IR35 are coming – eight tips to help you prepare
  • Government encourages SMEs to start testing staff for COVID-19
  • Furlough: new rules for calculating the pay of variable hours workers
  • BrewDog’s recipe for success

January 2021

  • Staff pensions in troubled times
  • Business Interruption Insurance – businesses win big in The Supreme Court
  • Should you furlough staff who are having to home school their children?
  • Lawyer Makes Brexit Data Warning To Businesses

December 2020

  • Sustainability beyond the environment: what it means to be a ‘responsible business’
  • Dealing with the consequences of a disrupted supply chain
  • The UK Economy Beyond Coronavirus
  • Battle of the breweries: turning trademark dispute into success
  • Viva la revolution-ary product - but we’ll have to wait for the law to catch up when it comes to consumer rights

November 2020

  • Building Back Greener - Can we be Cleaner?
  • Workplace bullying: should you excuse the behaviour of someone who says they didn't mean to upset colleagues?
  • Phishing email led to life-threatening attack at petrochemical manufacturer
  • EU Directive Update: Mandatory Reporting Of Cross Border Arrangements

October 2020

  • Made in Japan won't equal Made in Britain
  • Brexit hub
  • Delay of Environmental Bill causes concern among lawyers
  • Employment Tribunals increase 18% in first three months of lockdown
  • Irwin Mitchell secures second position in litigation league table

September 2020

  • The future of leases: Industrial
  • New Kickstart scheme open to employers
  • Virtual event recording: GDPR issues in redundancy
  • Food trade group calls for more time after food labelling deadline missed
  • Warning for companies needing the UKCA mark post-Brexit

August 2020

  • Building back greener
  • Overclaimed furlough grants? If you don't own up HMRC could name and shame you
  • Virtual event recording: Schrems II and the impact on the export of personal data
  • Business interruption insurance test case – what we know so far
  • Surge in new employments claims suggests employers are ignoring employment law

July 2020

  • Implementing Industry 4.0 in packaging
  • Court of Justice of the European Union issues landmark decision in Schrems II case
  • Slavery in the supply chain – bringing tears to your eyes
  • Summer Statement – employment implications 

Edition 9

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Inside Edition 9

  • The purple wrapper battle
  • Ratcheting down your risk
  • Sexual harassment and the workplace
  • Where’s the warehousing?
  • Outlook for M&A activity
  • Brexit, extensions and exports
  • Disputes and internal communications
  • Something fishy about your fish?

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Edition 8

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Inside Edition 8 

  • Lean machines
  • Manufacturing M&A: Values rise but volumes fall
  • China: Land of opportunity
  • Setting standards
  • Back for business: A Polish trade mission
  • Disciplinary hearings: Advice for manufacturers
  • Making Tax Digital for Business
  • Is your supply contract watertight?
  • Double cheque
  • Internal investigations: Legal professional privilege

Edition 7

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Inside Edition 7

  • An industrial strategy for the UK 
  • Bumps in the road 
  • Energy efficient manufacturing
  • A six-figure saving? 
  • Immigration and UK manufacturing
  • Future-proofing manufacturing
  • M&A trends in manufacturing 
  • Product recall: A quick guide 
  • European court ruling leaves manufacturers wide open to holiday pay claims

Edition 6

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Inside Edition 6

  • AI and Robotics: Can we get ahead?
  • Industry 4.0 and Property
  • Mental health in the workplace
  • A new approach to food regulation
  • ITF Dubai trade mission: Strength in numbers
  • Are you ready for the next Industrial Revolution?
  • Breach of contract: Limiting liability
  • Our employers guide for pension planning
  • UK Powerhouse: A nation divided
  • Brexit: A risky business?
  • Intelligent manufacturing and the supply chain

Edition 5

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Inside Edition 5

  • The Changing Face of Manufacturing
  • M&A Trends in Manufacturing in 2016
  • GDPR 2018
  • A Bike Manufacturing Revolution
  • Fingers in the Till
  • Insolvencies in the Current Climate
  • I, Robot?
  • Funding Manufacturing
  • UK Powerhouse – An industrial strategy for the whole of the UK?
  • Changing Spaces
  • Rise of the Machines
  • Brexit, Regulation and the Changing Landscape

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  • Anticipating the Future
  • Auto-Enrolment What You Need to Know
  • Business as Usual?
  • Contractual Issues Specific to New Premises
  • Have Your Old Designers Reclaimed Some Rights?
  • New Opportunities and New Risks
  • Restrictive Covenants in Employment Contracts
  • Technology in the Supply Chain
  • The Trend Toward Reshoring
  • Turbulent Times in Manufacturing M&A
  • Will Brexit Trigger an Increase in Insolvencies?

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  • Welcome, the times are changing
  • State of the Nation
  • UK Powerhouse Update
  • The Apprentice – hiring and firing
  • Brexit – uncertainty abounds
  • Litigating on home soil
  • Spotlight on: Food
  • Insolvency and supply chain risk
  • Modern Slavery Act 2015
  • The bigger you are, the harder you fallM&A trends in the sector

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