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Gender Pay Gap Reporting Obligations in Force from April
...employment is governed by UK legislation. However, it is likely that employers will have to report on the pay of employees working overseas if the employment relationship has a sufficiently close con...
All you do is take, take, take
...Employment Law Journal. Click here to read the article in full.
Coronavirus guidance for employers
Coronavirus guidance for employers This guidance answers some of the common questions employers have in relation to the coronavirus outbreak. Please do get in touch if you require advice on your parti...
Flexible furlough: rewriting the rules
...Employment Law Journal. Click here to read Rose's article
Zero Hours Contracts: Draft Anti-Avoidance Provisions Published
...employment to bring an unfair dismissal claim. Clauses in zero hours contracts which prevent workers from working for another employer ("exclusivity clauses") were outlawed in May 2015. The draft Regu...
Self-dismissal by failure to respond
...employment. As such, Mr Zulhayir’s employment had continued and his failure to respond to the company’s letter was not sufficient to act as a termination of his employment. What does this mean for emp...
Early Conciliation – Does Acas Know Who to Contact in Your Organisation?
Early Conciliation – Does Acas Know Who to Contact in Your Organisation? Acas is compiling a list of HR contacts in larger organisations so that it knows who to contact for the purposes of early conc...
Non Payroll Labour: What Employers Need to Know
...employment law protections, such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or a redundancy payment. Although there have always been differences in the tests of employment for tax and employment law purp...
Effect of Successful Appeal Against Dismissal
...employment had not transferred under TUPE. The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld S’s appeal. The tribunal had been wrong to look for a separate decision to reinstate. If an employee’s appeal is su...
Attending Union and Health and Safety Meetings May Count as Working
...employment tribunal ruled that time spent on trade union duties or attending health and safety committee meetings was not “working time” for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (“WTR”). ...
Employee Breached Implied Duty of Fidelity by Organising Team Move
...employment contracts can still gain protection against competition from employees during employment through the duty of fidelity. That duty is implied into all employment contracts. However, it is i...
Are your employment contracts ready for 6 April?
...employment 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 a...
Government backs harassment law changes
...employment tribunal claim. If an employee is successful in a claim for sexual harassment and the employment tribunal rules that the employer is in breach of the duty, it will have the power to award a...
Disagreement Over Pay and Terms: No Breach of Trust and Confidence
...employment and prepared various drafts of a service agreement which were never agreed. The matter became contentious and S’s solicitors wrote to his employer saying that S had lost all trust and conf...
Compensatory awards to increase as employer pension contributions count towards the calculation of a week’s pay
...employment tribunal agreed. It declined to follow a 1989 employment tribunal decision which had ruled that pension contributions should not be taken into account as they are not received directl...
Tribunal Fees Challenge Appeal Gets Go Ahead
...employment tribunal fees. Unison is arguing that tribunal fees, which were introduced in June last year, create a barrier to enforcing employment rights. The High Court rejected the challenge in Febr...
Refusing flexible working requests
...Employment Appeal Tribunal overturned an employment tribunal’s decision that an employer who refused an employee’s flexible working request had indirectly discriminated against her on grounds of sex. ...
Consultation on Proposals to Exempt Self-employed Persons from Health and Safety Laws
Consultation on Proposals to Exempt Self-employed Persons from Health and Safety Laws The Government intends to exempt self-employed people from health and safety legislation where their work poses no...
Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 Receives Royal Assent
...Employment Act 2015 Receives Royal Assent The Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 received Royal Assent on 25 March 2015. The Act includes a number of provisions of interest to employer...
Sacrifice salary for pension contributions - save tax and national insurance contributions
Sacrifice salary for pension contributions - save tax and national insurance contributions We are increasingly seeing clients using salary sacrifice arrangements to pay pension contributions in order ...