Blog - Cognitive Law

Psychological Safety

May 10,2021

We’ve all put in new practices to keep our people physically safe and now we need to address psychological safety too. We can do this buy assessing and changing our culture and practices. Psychological safety exists in an environment where moderate risk taking is encouraged, where people can try things, make mistakes and learn from... Read more »

Anti-Slavery Statement – Does your business need to publish a statement even if it is not UK based?

April 26,2021

The UK government is keen to strengthen its measures under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA 2015) to ensure that modern slavery is not taking place in the UK and those areas where all UK-related businesses are concerned worldwide. These include body corporates and partnerships where their business (or part of their business) supply goods... Read more »

Checking the Right To Work post Brexit

March 29,2021

We all know that the UK has left the EU. That is last year’s news. But do we all know how that has affected the Right To Work (RTW) in the UK for EU nationals (excluding those from Ireland)? As recruiters must do a Right To Work check, it is a fundamental point to get... Read more »

Key Information Documents – Fact Sheet

March 22,2021

The introduction of Key Information Documents came into force on 6th April 2020. The legislation incorporates a revision into the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations, or ‘Conduct Regulations.’ The purpose of the implementation of Key Information Documents was to increase pay transparency for agency workers and provide key information regarding their assignments.... Read more »

The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate

March 18,2021

Recruitment companies and the law – Part 2 This follows on from my previous article about recruitment companies and the laws that in my opinion are predominantly applicable to them. This article focuses on recruitment companies’ compliance with the law, and what happens when they do not. The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) is a... Read more »

Successful seminar with the Japan Association on cross-border succession

March 16,2021

We are very pleased that we were able to help the Japan Association in the UK (www.japanassociation.org.uk) run a very successful Zoom seminar on “Cross-border Succession: Assets and Beneficiaries in Japan and in the UK”. The seminar proved to be very popular amongst the Japanese and those who are related to Japan, and Cognitive will... Read more »

Your questions answered on the UK GDPR & Data Protection issues

March 3,2021

The UK left the EU and the transitional period ended on 31 December 2020. The GDPR was incorporated into UK data protection law (such as the Data Protection Act 2018) as the “UK GDPR” before the UK left the EU. There is little change to the core data protection law in the UK before and... Read more »

Subject Access Requests from employees

February 25,2021

As an employer, there are many occasions when it’s advisable to keep written notes, either by hand in a notebook, or in a follow up email. Written notes can avoid doubt about what was agreed at the time and provide easy reference for any subsequent conversations or actions. What are subject access requests? In terms... Read more »

Strategy – how is it going?

February 22,2021

At the beginning of the year there were many articles about creating a strategy with some great advice around why it’s a good idea and how to do it. Now that we are a couple of months into 2021, how has your strategy helped you in your business so far? Has it helped you focus... Read more »

Human Resources Audit

February 15,2021

HR – The Paperwork To get the best out of the people you work with, behaviour is a key element. However, to underpin behaviour and to run alongside it, businesses also need something more tangible. And that’s where policies, processes, files and written notes come into place. Having the right information in writing explicitly states... Read more »