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Zero Hours Contracts BIS Guidance
...contracts, appropriate and inappropriate use, alternatives to using zero hours contracts, best practice and exclusivity clauses. Zero hours contracts: guidance for employers can be viewed here.
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Zero Hours Contracts: Government Outlines Proposals for Reform
...Contracts: Government Outlines Proposals for Reform The Government has announced that it plans to ban exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts so that those employed on zero hours contracts are fr...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Exclusivity Clauses Banned From Today
...Contracts: Exclusivity Clauses Banned From Today The ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts has come into force today. Provisions of a zero hours contracts which prohibit the worker from: ...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Draft Anti-Avoidance Provisions Published
...Contracts: Draft Anti-Avoidance Provisions Published The Government has published draft Regulations which give employees working on zero hours contracts the right to claim unfair dismissal if they a...
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Injunction preventing fire and re-hire by Tesco overturned by Court of Appeal
...contracts. There was no evidence that anyone had considered the possibility that in the future Tesco might seek to “fire and re-hire”. The contracts should therefore be given their natural and ordinar...
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Ban on exclusivity clauses for low-paid workers in force
...contracts which prohibit them from working for someone else or from doing so without their employer’s consent. Terms of this kind have been unenforceable in zero hours workers’ contracts since ...
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Changes to Taxation of Termination Payments: A Degree of Backtracking
Changes to Taxation of Termination Payments: A Degree of Backtracking Plans to tax notice pay from April 2018 will be limited to basic pay only. The Chancellor confirmed in his Autumn Statement that p...
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Ban on Zero Hours Contracts Exclusivity Clauses: Government Considers Measures to Tackle Avoidance
...Contracts Exclusivity Clauses: Government Considers Measures to Tackle Avoidance Following on from the Government’s announcement that it plans to ban exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts, it ha...
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Government considers ban on exclusivity clauses in low paid workers’ contracts
...contracts The Government has issued a consultation seeking views on its proposals to ban exclusivity clauses in low paid workers’ contracts. Under the proposals being considered, where a worker’s guar...
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UK pension tax reform: end of contracting-out
UK pension tax reform: end of contracting-out Key issues for employers and trustees From 6 April 2016, defined benefit pension schemes will no longer be able to contract out of the State Second Pensi...
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Protections for Zero Hours Workers in Force
...Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015 came into force on 11 January 2016. The Regulations give employees working on zero hours contracts the right to claim unfair dismissal if they are dismissed for w...
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Claims for Arrears of Underpaid Holiday Pay Limited to Two Years
...contracts, so as to preclude claims for breach of contract which could potentially go back six years. The changes will apply to claims made to the employment tribunal on or after 1 July 2015. For c...
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Zero Hours Contracts: Tackling Avoidance of Exclusivity Ban
...contracts, meaning that exclusivity clauses will be unenforceable in contracts under which a worker works less than a set number of hours each week or earns less than a set amount each week (both thre...
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Are your employment contracts ready for 6 April?
...contracts ready for 6 April? From 6 April, employers will have to include additional information in employment contracts, provide the information earlier and provide it to workers as well as employees...
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Government Considers Extension of Employment Rights as Part of Employment Status Review
...contracts which offer fewer employment rights and protections, such as worker contracts, have become commonplace. As the economy recovers, it wants to explore extending employment rights to more peop...
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CIGA 2020: I’m a Supplier (and my customer’s insolvent) … Get me out of here!!
...contracts, and what options do suppliers now have in these circumstances?Scope of the banThe purpose of existing sections 233, 233A and new section 233B of the IA 1986 is to protect a customer’s contr...
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Election Manifestos: Issues for Employers
...contracts so that those who have no guaranteed hours can also work for other employers. The Liberal Democrats will also look to stamp out abuse of zero hours contracts. They will create a formal rig...
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New Criminal Offence: Failing to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion and the Preventative Measures Employers are Liable to Make
...contracts prohibiting employees from engaging in the facilitation of tax evasion and requiring compliance with their policy on its prevention. If you are considering including such a provision in you...
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New Tax-free Childcare Scheme Delayed until 2017
New Tax-free Childcare Scheme Delayed until 2017 The Government's new tax-free childcare scheme which was due to launch in the Autumn has been delayed. It will not now be launched until early 2017. ...
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Government Launches Inquiry into Future of the World of Work
...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 those not work...