Autumn 2017 Budget: key employment announcements

The Government will increase the national minimum wage from April 2018 to the following rates: Apprentices: £3.70 an hour; 16-17 year olds: £4.20 an hour; 18-20 year olds: £5.90 an…

Monitoring employees personal messages

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has decided that an employee’s human rights were breached when his employer monitored and viewed his personal messages to his…

Automatic enrolment and re-enrolment: upcoming deadlines for employers

Most employers have passed their automatic enrolment staging date and are automatically enrolling new workers into a pension scheme as a matter of routine. However, employers need to be aware…

Over 30% of fit notes issued due to poor mental health

A new NHS Digital report has said that nearly a third of all fit notes are issued to workers because of their poor mental health. According to the report (which…

Modern slavery checks failing to monitor workers in supply chains

A recent research report has suggested that employers are at risk of employing victims of modern slavery due to the complexity of the modern labour market. According to the report,…

1% of those entitled take shared parental leave

Research undertaken by commercial law firm EMW, has revealed that only 8,700 new parents made use of the shared parental leave system in the last year, accounting for less than…

Draft Brexit rules could cause an “unskilled workforce crisis”

UK industry would find it “near impossible” to recruit low-skilled EU workers post-Brexit, if rules governing access to the UK jobs market for non-EU migrant workers were extended to EU…

Dismissal not unfair where employer took account of previous incidents

Facts Ms Pillar was employed by NHS 24 as a Nurse Practitioner. Her work consisted of taking telephone calls from members of the public and triaging them by asking appropriate…

Acas publishes new mental health guidance

Acas has published guidance to assist employers in supporting staff with mental health issues. The guidance suggests how employees might spot signs of mental ill-health and provides employers with a…

Accommodation Offets

Accommodation for Employees The Accommodation Offset is a figure set by the Government each year. It is the limit on the amount that can be considered as a value for…

Voluntary Overtime – a Light at the end of the Tunnel?

Most employers will be aware of the extensive case law that has emerged over the past few years regarding the calculation of holiday pay where employees also work overtime. We…

Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave

The Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill 2017 was introduced into the House of Commons in July 2017. Under the bill, employed parents who have lost a child would be…

Modern Slavery in Supply Chains

In July 2017, the House of Lords were presented with the Modern Slavery (Transparency in Supply Chains) Bill 2017. The Bill makes further provision for transparency in supply chains…

National Minimum Wage: sleep-in shifts in the social care sector

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) enforces payment of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and is currently investigating social care providers for underpayment of the NMW in respect of “sleep-in” shifts.…

So, employment tribunal fees are unlawful but what happens now?

After the flurry of activity from the July Supreme Court decision – that Employment Tribunal fees are unlawful – what happens now? 1. It is unlikely that fees will…

BBC gender pay gap

BBC Director General, Tony Hall, hopes to close the BBC gender pay gap by 2020, following a letter signed by 40 of the BBC’s most high-profile female stars (including the…

The Taylor Review of the “Gig” Economy

The “gig economy” (where individuals are engaged by businesses on a flexible, ad hoc basis – e.g. Uber drivers) has recently presented problems for determining employment status. The Taylor Review…

Disciplining for quoting the Bible

Mr Trayhorn was employed by the Secretary of State as a gardener at a prison. The prison had a chapel, and employed full-time Chaplains. Mr Trayhorn was a Pentecostal Christian,…

How to handle cancer in the workplace?

I am a HR Manager, and have recently been informed that one of our employees unfortunately has cancer. What should I do to support our employee in the workplace? People…

Liquid lunches: can an employer stop staff drinking during working hours?

We recently saw Lloyd’s of London banning a lunchtime pint during the working day but how far can an employer police what workers do when they are outside the office…

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Category: Employment Law

Autumn 2017 Budget: key employment announcements

Monitoring employees personal messages

Automatic enrolment and re-enrolment: upcoming deadlines for employers

Over 30% of fit notes issued due to poor mental health

Modern slavery checks failing to monitor workers in supply chains

1% of those entitled take shared parental leave

Draft Brexit rules could cause an “unskilled workforce crisis”

Dismissal not unfair where employer took account of previous incidents

Acas publishes new mental health guidance

Accommodation Offets

Voluntary Overtime – a Light at the end of the Tunnel?

Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave

Modern Slavery in Supply Chains

National Minimum Wage: sleep-in shifts in the social care sector

So, employment tribunal fees are unlawful but what happens now?

BBC gender pay gap

The Taylor Review of the “Gig” Economy

Disciplining for quoting the Bible

How to handle cancer in the workplace?

Liquid lunches: can an employer stop staff drinking during working hours?