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Auto-enrolment – what HR professionals need to know
Auto-enrolment – what HR professionals need to know Politically, pensions auto-enrolment has proved to be a huge success with 7.8 million workers enrolled into a workplace pension scheme for the first...
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Annual increases to employment compensation limits and statutory rates of pay
Annual increases to employment compensation limits and statutory rates of pay The compensation limits for tribunal unfair dismissals awards and the prescribed amount of statutory payments wi...
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Home Office issues new guidance on recruiting overseas nationals from 1 Jan 2021
Home Office issues new guidance on recruiting overseas nationals from 1 Jan 2021 The Home Office has issued further details for employers looking to recruit overseas nationals from 1 January 2021. Fr...
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The Legal 500 2023: Excellent Doyle Clayton Performance
...Employment (London) - Senior Executives We are recommended as ‘employment focused and aware of all aspects from both employer and employee side’. Well done to all the team. Peter De Maria is re...
Further support for businesses impacted by Omicron
Further support for businesses impacted by Omicron The Government has announced further measures to support businesses impacted by the Omicron variant of Covid-19. On 21 December, Chancellor, Rishi S...
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Employment Tribunal to Refer Questions on Surrogacy to the ECJ
Employment Tribunal to Refer Questions on Surrogacy to the ECJ The Newcastle Employment Tribunal has decided to ask the European Court of Justice whether a woman who becomes a mother by way of a surro...
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TUPE and Collective Redundancy Changes: Regulations and Guidance Published
...employment, and start again from scratch at that point; changes to terms will be void and dismissals automatically unfair where the “sole or principal” reason for the change or dismissal is the tran...
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Annual Whistleblowing Reports by Prescribed Persons
...Employment Act 2015, prescribed persons will be required to report annually on whistleblowing disclosures received. The draft Prescribed Persons (Report on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2...
Workplace Investigations: Top 7 questions answered
...employment issues. Recent investigations have involved allegations of bullying, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment at senior level. Listen to our webina...
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Serial Litigants: The tide is turning
Serial Litigants: The tide is turning In February 2010, The Times newspaper reported the antics of John Berry, aged 54. He apparently scours the internet for discriminatory job adverts calling for a...
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Tribunal Claim Numbers Continue to Fall
...employment tribunal claims last summer is having a significant impact on the number of claims being brought and appear to support Unison’s arguments that fees may be acting as a barrier to justice. ...
Discrimination ‘soup’ within Generation Y - as published on Minute Hack
Discrimination ‘soup’ within Generation Y - as published on Minute Hack Generation Y employees are both victims and perpetrators of discrimination in the workplace, says a leading firm of employment l...
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Collective Redundancies: Advocate General's Opinion on Establishment Question Expected in February
Collective Redundancies: Advocate General's Opinion on Establishment Question Expected in February USDAW has indicated that the Advocate General is expected to give his opinion on 5 February on whethe...
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PRA announces interim rules on regulatory references
PRA announces interim rules on regulatory references The PRA has announced that it will be introducing interim rules on regulatory references which will apply from 7 March 2016. These will be followe...
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Gay head teacher succeeds in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims due to biased disciplinary process
...Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). Decision The EAT upheld the employment tribunal’s decision. The tribunal had been wrong to find that Mr Aplin had affirmed the contr...
Shielding employees in England able to return to workplace from 1 August
Shielding employees in England able to return to workplace from 1 August On 23 June, the government announced further easing of lockdown restrictions for those in England identified as clinically extr...
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£4.6m in damages awarded to former employee of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
...Employment Tribunal in at least a decade, and potentially longer. Doyle Clayton partner Peter Daly, who acted for Ms Wright-Turner, said: “This is one of the largest awards ever made by an Employm...
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Acas Guidance on Managing Bereavement in the Workplace
Acas Guidance on Managing Bereavement in the Workplace Acas has published guidance for employers on managing bereavement in the workplace. The guidance contains: An outline of current laws which may ...
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Government rejects call for better pregnancy and maternity protection
...employment status, due be published mid-2017. The Government's response can be viewed here.
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Compensation Awards Increase from 6 April 2017
...Employment Law Essentials.