On 12th May 2011 Pickerings Solicitors entertained guests with a lively evening of Jazz at their offices in Bonehill Road Tamworth. Musicians from Birmingham Conservatoire played a repertoire of jazz classics whilst guests relaxed over drinks and a...

Pickerings have recently launched PEP - Pickerings Employer Plus , a fixed-cost employment advice and insurance package providing an easy, cost-effective way to handle everyday employment issues and protect your business from costly litigation. ...

On Thursday 14th October  2010 the Pickerings' team held a Ladies Evening and Fashion Show at Packington Moor to raise funds on behalf of St Giles Hospice. The ladies were entertained by two spectacular catwalk shows showing the Autumn/Winter...

We are proud to report that solicitor Kate Pearce successfully completed the London Marathon in 4 hours and 32 minutes on Sunday and has so far raised     £ 2126.00 for St Giles Hospice. Kate thoroughly enjoyed the experience and...

Solicitor Kate Pearce is running the London Marathon April 2010 to raise funds for St Giles Hospice Property Solicitor Kate Pearce has been pounding the pavements and treadmills of Staffordshire in preparation for her next challenge. In April this year she...

What is the right? From 6 April 2010 a new right for employees to request time off work for study or training will come into force. It will initially apply to businesses with 250 or more employees and will be extended to all employers, regardless of size,...

You may have heard that employees are now entitled to 'additional paternity leave', but what does this mean in practice? What is the right? An eligible employee whose child is due on or after 3 April 2011 will have the right to apply for up to six...

Some businesses have taken the drastic step of cancelling their Christmas celebrations this year. In some cases this is to cut costs, or to avoid appearing insensitive following recent redundancies. However in other cases it has been as a direct result of...

The huge growth in the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo, MySpace etc in recent years, has brought with it a host of new issues for employers to deal with. The largest such network, Facebook, has over 175 million users, many of whom may...

On 25 th September 2009 the High Court gave it’s ruling in the Heyday case, which was brought by the charity Age UK, better known as Age Concern, to challenge UK age discrimination legislation. The judge decided that the ‘default retirement...