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Taxation of Termination Payments - Is it time to replace the £30k tax exemption, as the OTS suggests?
Taxation of Termination Payments - Is it time to replace the £30k tax exemption, as the OTS suggests? The Office for Tax Simplification (“OTS”) has recommended that the current £30,000 tax exemption f...
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Employer’s £42,000 SMP Bill Despite Employee Agreeing ACAS Settlement
Employer’s £42,000 SMP Bill Despite Employee Agreeing ACAS Settlement An employer has had to pay an employee over £42,000 in Statutory Maternity Pay, even though it had already paid her £60,000 under ...
UPDATED: Coronavirus job retention scheme - what you need to know
...contracts. Fixed-term contracts? Employers can furlough employees who are on fixed-term contracts and they can renew/extend their contracts during the furlough period without breaking the terms of t...
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EU gig economy workers could be reclassified as employees
...contracts, visit our employment pages for more information and for details on how to contact us.
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Queen’s speech: workplace issues
Queen’s speech: workplace issues The Queen’s speech, delivered today, sets out the new Government’s legislative programme and covers a number of areas of interest for employers. What new ...
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Amara Ahmad
Amara Ahmad Amara is one of the UK’s leading specialist education and children’s law solicitors. An expert in special educational needs (SEND) and safeguarding she works closely with parents, schools,...
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Discrimination: No time off to attend Mosque did not amount to indirect discrimination
Discrimination: No time off to attend Mosque did not amount to indirect discrimination In Cherfi v G4S Security Services Ltd, the EAT considered that G4S’s refusal to allow Mr Cherfi time off to att...
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Workers Not Entitled to Compensation Uplift
Workers Not Entitled to Compensation Uplift An employment tribunal was wrong to award a 25% uplift on compensation where a worker succeeded in claiming detrimental treatment on whistleblowing grounds....
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Two Week Gap Between Employments with Associated Employers: Continuity Not Broken
...contracts. In Holt v EB Security Ltd, H was dismissed from his job with P when the pub he was working in was closed down. Two weeks later he took up a different role with EB, an associated employer ...
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New legislation on holiday entitlement and pay
...contracts and holiday policies and consider specifying the order in which annual leave is taken, as well as making it clear that workers should take their holiday and warning of the risk of ...
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Hannah Davies
...contracts, staff handbooks and policies for a wide range of companies, including a major international charitable foundation, software companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Experience and...
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Change in Work Location was Substantial Change to Employees’ Material Detriment
Change in Work Location was Substantial Change to Employees’ Material Detriment A relocation of six miles because of a TUPE transfer was a substantial change in bus drivers’ working conditions to thei...
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Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statements for Businesses: Updated Guidance Published
...contracts against businesses that have a modern slavery statement. The updated guidance can be viewed here.
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Contractual Documentation Helped to Show Service Provision Change
...contracts and how the activities are described when TUPE is a factor.
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Buy-Outs of Variable Remuneration: PRA Consultation
Buy-Outs of Variable Remuneration: PRA Consultation The PRA has issued a consultation on its proposed new rule to address the issue of buy-outs of variable remuneration. The new rule will apply to al...
Furloughed employees entitled to redundancy and notice payments based on full pay
...contracts), the legislation requires the employer to use the employee’s reference salary under the coronavirus job retention scheme for the calculation (i.e. the higher of their wages earned in the co...
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Party manifestos: workplace issues
...contracts and give workers who work regular hours for more than 12 weeks the right to a regular contract reflecting those hoursRequire breaks during shifts to be paidRequire cancelled shifts to be pai...
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Elisabeth Kynaston
...contracts and handbooks and advising on day-to-day employee issues to providing advice on employment tribunal proceedings, breaches of post-termination restrictions by former employees and business re...
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Mike Hibberd
...contracts and handbooks - While employment contracts are a legal requirement for employers to provide to employees, for all organisations, having policies and handbooks in place is imperativ...
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Dismissal: When does notice start?
Dismissal: When does notice start? In Wang v University of Keele, the EAT has confirmed that, unless an employment contract provides otherwise, contractual notice will run from the day after the noti...