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Labour plans to promote flexi-time

The shadow minister for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler has revealed that Labour plans to give workers a day one right to select their working hours. Labour wishes to…

BEIS: new holiday pay guidance after “alarming” lack of awareness revealed.

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have created a useful tool and guidance for employers for calculating workers holiday pay entitlement whose pay/hours are not fixed. The…

New ACAS Guidance on age discrimination for employers

ACAS has recently published new guidance on age discrimination for employers, managers, HR professional, employees, trade union representatives and job applicants. Firstly, the guidance provides clear examples of necessary actions…

Swindled, Sacked and Sued

Peebles Media Group has launched legal action against an ex-employee, Patricia Reilly after she was conned into making online payments of nearly £200,000 to a fraudulent company. In 2015, Ms…

Government scraps £65 settled status fee for EU citizens

A recent announcement by the Government states it is scrapping the £65 settled status fee for all EU citizens who want to apply for permanent residence post-Brexit. The scrap comes…

BEIS publishes new guidance on itemised payslips

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published guidance on the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) (Itemised Pay Statement) (amendment) (NO2) Order 2018. The new legislation…

Government response to BEIS Committee report on gender pay gap reporting (employment aspects).

On 2 August 2018 the House of Commons Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee published a Gender Pay Gap Report as the first tranche of the Committee’s…

ACAS published latest early conciliation statistics

Statistics have been published on the ACAS early conciliation service for the period of April to September 2018. Around 85,400 totalled the numbers of individuals covered by the notification, which…

Employment Tribunal Quarterly Statistics for July to September 2018.

The Ministry of Justice has recently published, the employment tribunal quarterly statistics for the months July to September 2018. When compared to the same period of 2017, receipts, disposal and…

The Good Work Plan = The Government announces extensive employment law reforms following Taylor review.

The Government has responded to recommendations by the Taylor Review (July 2017) through the publication of the “Good Work Plan”, which shows the Government’s clear intention to legislate and improve…

Snow days

With talk of snow again this week we look at how snow chaos can affect businesses. Minimum working temperature For workers who work inside, the general rule is that the…

Common Law Marriage

Almost half of the people in England and Wales believe that Common law marriage exists The British Social Attitudes Survey carried out by The National Centre for Social Research has…

Publication of the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill

The Government published its draft Domestic Abuse Bill on 21st January 2019. The Bill will prohibit a domestic abuser from cross-examining their former victim in Family Courts. The proposed legal…

Employment Tribunals set to pilot online trials

Employment Tribunals are looking to the future and have announced a trial period of pilot online trials, like those of Tax Tribunals. This system will allow cases to be conducted…

Potential GDPR breach where employees check work emails out of hours

The busy world we live in, now means working from home or whilst commuting is fast becoming a growing normality. However, the recent changes to data protection legislation now means…

BEIS updated minimum wage guidance to include paid work trials

The department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has updated its guidance on calculating the minimum wage to include unpaid work trials. The guidance has been updated to…

Employees early dementia discriminated at work

Occupational Medicine (a scientific journal) recently published a study into the management of employees who suffer with early on set dementia. The disease currently affects around 42000 people under the…

Employee dismissal while entitled to long-term disability benefits in breach of implied term

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)recently decided that an employment tribunal was wrong to find an employer was correct in dismissing an employee on the grounds of capability while he was…

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Labour plans to promote flexi-time

BEIS: new holiday pay guidance after “alarming” lack of awareness revealed.

New ACAS Guidance on age discrimination for employers

Swindled, Sacked and Sued

Government scraps £65 settled status fee for EU citizens

BEIS publishes new guidance on itemised payslips

Government response to BEIS Committee report on gender pay gap reporting (employment aspects).

ACAS published latest early conciliation statistics

Employment Tribunal Quarterly Statistics for July to September 2018.

The Good Work Plan = The Government announces extensive employment law reforms following Taylor review.

Snow days

Common Law Marriage

Publication of the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill

Employment Tribunals set to pilot online trials

Potential GDPR breach where employees check work emails out of hours

BEIS updated minimum wage guidance to include paid work trials

Employees early dementia discriminated at work

Employee dismissal while entitled to long-term disability benefits in breach of implied term