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Trade Union Bill and Consultations Published
...employment businesses from providing employers with agency workers to cover for striking workers.
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National Minimum Wage Penalties to be Increased Again
National Minimum Wage Penalties to be Increased Again The Government has announced a package of measures aimed at ensuring workers receive the pay they are entitled to. The measures include: doubling...
How to handle retirement - as published in Education Today
...employment laws and could find themselves in an Employment Tribunal facing an age discrimination claim. It is important to be aware that asking a teacher about their retirement plans can amount to les...
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National Minimum Wage: Younger Workers to Qualify for National Living Wage
National Minimum Wage: Younger Workers to Qualify for National Living Wage National Minimum Wage rates increase from 1 April each year but this year there is an additional change employers need to be ...
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Unfair dismissal compensation and redundancy payment increases from April
...Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2024 which has been laid before Parliament and will come into force on 6 April. If you have any questions about the upcoming changes, please contact...
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Replacing Employees with Franchisees Can be an “ETO Reason”
...employment" business model as their reduced cost base enables them to price the contract more cheaply. However, contractors need to be aware that sham arrangements will not work - courts will always l...
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UK Must Protect Against Dismissal on Grounds of Political Beliefs
...employment tribunals will be tempted to interpret the religion and belief provisions of the Equality Act so as to give protection for political beliefs.
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Successful Appeal Avoided Indirect Sex Discrimination
...employment tribunal rejected her claim, finding that L suffered no disadvantage in the light of the appeal decision. The EAT agreed. L had not suffered any disadvantage or detriment because her par...
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ECJ Rules on Surrogacy and Entitlement to Maternity Leave
ECJ Rules on Surrogacy and Entitlement to Maternity Leave Mothers who receive a child under a surrogacy arrangement are not entitled to maternity leave under EU law. In C-D v S-T, C-D became a mother...
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PRA and FCA Announce New Whistleblowing Rules
...Employment Rights Act 1996. However, they will be able to offer fewer protections to whistleblowers who are not employees if they are victimised by people outside the firm. Settlement agreements Fi...
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Migration Advisory Committee to advise on salary thresholds for new immigration system
Migration Advisory Committee to advise on salary thresholds for new immigration system The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to review and advise on ...
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Government confirms new right to neonatal care leave and pay
...Employment Bill. Key details of the scheme will be: Statutory neonatal leave and pay will follow similar rules already in place for maternity, paternity and other family types of leave and pay, mean...
New shielding guidance – what employers need to know
...Employment Support Allowance Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-19
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Government U-turns on majority of mini-budget tax measures
Government U-turns on majority of mini-budget tax measures Most tax measures from mini-budget abandoned Following Kwasi Kwarteng’s departure, new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has announc...
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Redundancy: The importance of consultation
Redundancy: The importance of consultation The case of Pinewood Repro Ltd T/A County Print v Page confirms the importance of effective redundancy consultation. Pinewood was found to have failed to c...
Flexible Working – The 21st Century’s answer to the 9 to 5
Flexible Working – The 21st Century’s answer to the 9 to 5 What does the phrase “flexible working” mean to you? Does it conjure up images of people putting the washing on, getting some ironing done, p...
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Employer vicariously liable for Managing Director’s drunken assault
Employer vicariously liable for Managing Director’s drunken assault The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employer was vicariously liable for an assault committed by its Managing Director at drinks wh...
England moves to Plan B due to rapid spread of the Omicron variant
...employment issue visit our employment service page for more information.
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Flexible working affects mums’ ability to progress their career
Flexible working affects mums’ ability to progress their career Nearly half of working mums think that working flexibly has affected their ability to progress their career, according to a recent surve...
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Supreme Court opens the door to more holiday pay claims
...Employment Rights Act 1996) is broken where there is a gap of more than three months between the underpayments or where a correct payment of holiday pay is made. If successful this argument, which ref...