A permanent contract is the most common form of employment contract used in the UK. It is an open-ended agreement between an employer and an employee with no fixed end date. While the term “permanent” is widely used in recruitment and HR practice, it does not mean guaranteed employment for life. Ins
In the UK, an employer can only withhold pay in strictly limited circumstances. The starting point under UK employment law is that workers are entitled to be paid the wages properly due to them as part of the fundamental bargain in an employment contract. If an employer withholds pay without lawful
Equal pay law remains one of the most scrutinised and litigated areas of UK employment law. Despite more than fifty years of statutory protection, disputes over pay equity continue to generate high-profile tribunal and appellate decisions. For employers, the legal exposure is significant: successful
Livspace has let go of about 1,000 employees, that is, about 12 per cent of its staff, as part of a planned internal reorganisation. As per the company, this move is to become more focused on artificial intelligence (AI). However, the layoffs also come after four years without new funding and no cle
Ensuring compliance with data protection law is now a core HR governance function. HR departments process large volumes of highly sensitive personal data throughout the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to performance management, absence handling and termination. That exposure crea
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ByteDance Seed recently dropped a research that might change how we build reasoning AI. For years, devs and AI researchers have struggled to ‘cold-start’ Large Language Models (LLMs) into Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) models. Most models lose their way or fail to transfer patterns dur
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