26/10/21
As businesses tentatively begin to emerge from the pandemic thoughts may finally start to turn to future opportunities and challenges. It appears likely that the next major issue affecting the property world will be energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. With the increasing awareness of…
26/10/21
Every business will have information that it considers to be critical to its operations and success. For those in manufacturing this information is more delicate than other industries, as a key part of growth is core customers and supplier details. The business will want to prevent this…
18/10/21
Rightly or wrongly, we're all coming to terms with the normality of goods shortages, and more recently due to lack of HGV drivers arising out of Covid and compounded by Brexit. We've heard of a number of businesses which have either had to close due to these shortages or default on supply and…
18/10/21
The past few months have seen billions of pounds exchanged in deals involving some of the biggest and best-known businesses in the North West, including the likes of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Matillion, Boohoo, THG, Manchester United and Liverpool FC. Alongside these tech/retail/sports titans,…
13/10/21
What can happen if you ask an employee to work extra hours where it would breach the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR)? Would an employee need to work the shift proposed in order to claim automatic unfair dismissal? These issues were discussed in the recent case of Simoes v De Sede UK Ltd.…
08/06/21
It is beyond doubt that Covid-19 has caused considerable financial challenges for commercial tenants, many of whom have had to endure either their business not being able to run as effectively, or not run at all. The Government has for the most part been sympathetic towards commercial tenants during the…
07/06/21
In response to COVID-19, the Government introduced a number of support packages in order to ease the financial burden on businesses. Now that Government restrictions are easing, life is beginning to return to some semblance of normality, however, businesses may struggle in getting back on track as the…
07/06/21
The UK is facing unprecedented increases in the cost of key raw materials, which has been felt across several businesses. Not to mention the already existing pressures caused by Covid-19 and Brexit, this is yet another issue manufacturing companies are facing across the UK, resulting in disruption…
07/06/21
Several senior leaders in the manufacturing industry have noted modest or even significant growth throughout the global pandemic. Due to the nature of the market, the unprecedented supply of manufactured products has accelerated an increase in demand for products and economic growth, as a result, we…
07/06/21
The UK manufacturing sector has had a very mixed response to the Covid-19 pandemic, with some businesses struggling, and others thriving, either due to being in key sector supply chains or by being able to pivot to adapt to the "new normal". As we start to near the beginning of the end of this…
23/02/21
The implications of Brexit and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have meant that most businesses are carefully considering all costs and risks to their business, including costs and risks associated with properties that they own or occupy. Tenants may wish to carefully consider their existing obligations…
22/02/21
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to cause pressures across sectors and around the world, attention is gradually beginning to turn to the implications of a more widescale return to the workplace, including the wider rollout of rapid response testing and the encouragement of employee vaccinations.…
19/02/21
At its' core, artificial intelligence (AI) is a form of computer science which involves the development of programmes to enable tasks to be completed which would otherwise require human intelligence. AI algorithms can be used for tasks including problem solving, logical reasoning and understanding…
19/02/21
Businesses in the manufacturing sector, like many others, have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic with the profound operational challenges that it has presented. The scale of the pandemic's impact, including factory closures and unprecedented disruption to supply chains, has knocked companies…
10/02/21
National Apprenticeship Week began on 8 February. This year's theme is 'Build The Future.' With 20 years of experience in progressing employees through apprenticeships, Forbes Solicitors has helped build futures and this year has been no different and has been as successful, despite the…
04/01/21
Amid a busy festive period with the imposition of stricter lockdown measures and the approval of the latest Covid-19 vaccine was the news that a Brexit deal had been agreed. The deal, which was agreed on Christmas Eve, marked some form of conclusion to the Brexit process which has been ongoing since the…
