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Queen’s Speech: Employment Aspects
...zero hours contracts. No further information on its proposals has been provided; tackle national minimum wage abuses by imposing higher penalties on employers who fail to pay the national minimum wag...
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Number of new and expectant mothers forced to leave jobs has doubled
...zero-hours workers; and protection from redundancy until six months after a return to work. The Government has said that it will respond to the report “in due course”.
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£19,500 Harassment Compensation for “Vulnerable” Zero Hours Worker
...Zero Hours Worker A zero hours worker has been awarded £19,500 compensation for injury to feelings after being harassed by her boss. In setting the level of the award, the employment tribunal took in...
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Labour’s 2017 Election Manifesto – For the Many, Not the Few
...Zero hours and short hours contracts Labour will ban zero hours contracts. It will also introduce legislation entitling those employed on short hours contracts (under which they are a guaranteed on...
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Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 Receives Royal Assent
...zero hours contracts. Provisions on public sector exit payments. None of the provisions are currently in force.
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Ban on exclusivity clauses for low-paid workers in force
...zero hours workers’ contracts since May 2015. The Exclusivity Terms for Zero Hours Workers (Unenforceability and Redress) Regulations 2022 extend this to low-income workers whose guaranteed net averag...
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Government announces “Good Work Plan” for enhancing rights and protections at work
...zero-hour contracts and will be asking the Low Pay Commission to consider this. It will also introduce a right for all workers, not just zero-hours and agency workers, to request a “more stable”...
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Taylor Review Good Work Report Published
...hours which are not guaranteed, so that businesses can continue to use zero-hours and short-hours workers but be required to pay for their flexibility; The pay reference per...
Creative use of workers during difficult times - Atypical workers - HR MAGAZINE
...Zero hours contracts/casual workers Zero hours contractscan be useful for managing peaks and troughs in business. The employer offers no guaranteed minimum number of working hours, the individ...
Furloughed employees entitled to redundancy and notice payments based on full pay
...hours and a fixed salary, the payments are based on the salary for working those normal working hours. The legislation clarifies that normal working hours includes furloughed hours and that when calcu...
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Corbyn v Smith: employment law proposals
...zero hours contracts, provide employment rights from day one, repeal the Trade Union Act 2016 and abolish employment tribunal fees. Owen Smith’s other proposals Owen Smith has announced 25 workplac...
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Employment Law Reforms: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill 2014
...zero hours contracts; Deter breaches of National Minimum Wage laws by amending the power to set the maximum penalty for underpayment so that it can be set on a per worker basis. This means that empl...
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Harpur Trust holiday pay case to be heard by the Supreme Court
...zero hours contract, was owed any holiday pay. The Court of Appeal found in summer 2019 that, despite not working all year round, she was still entitled to 5.6 weeks’ holiday. As such, her employer sh...
Changes to job support scheme announced
...hours For employees with fixed hours (and whose pay does not vary according to the number of hours they work) usual hours are calculated based on the greater of: The hours that the employee wa...
Working ‘When Required’ - as published in the Law Society Gazette
...zero-hours contracts has unexpectedly energised my teenage son (this is not a verb with which he is normally associated). Sadly, his realisation that the suggested hours were matched by the pay led to...
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Harpur Trust v Brazel – are you calculating holiday pay correctly?
...zero-hours basis so was paid only for the work she carried out. She did not work a full working week and did not work during school holidays. Ms Brazel was entitled to the usual 5.6 weeks’ holiday per...
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Government Launches Inquiry into Future of the World of Work
...zero-hour contracts, definitions of flexible contracts, the role of the Low Pay Commission, and minimum wage enforcement? 8. What is the role of trade unions in representing the self-employed and thos...
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“Change Britain’s Future”: the Liberal Democrats' 2017 Manifesto
...Zero hours contracts and the gig economy The LibDems will stamp out the abuse of zero hours contracts and create a right for workers to request a fixed term contract. They will also consult on intro...
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Employers cannot pro-rate holiday entitlement for part-year workers
...zero-hours contract and was entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday. She had no normal working hours. The Trust paid her an agreed hourly rate for the hours worked in the previous month. She only worked d...
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Right to request a predictable working pattern
...zero hours workers struggle with one-sided flexibility, where they are required to be available to work, but have no guarantee of work. Timescale The Bill is progressing through Parliament and ...