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Zero Hours Contracts: Exclusivity Clauses Banned From Today
Zero Hours 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 wo...
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Government backtracks on automatic expiry of EU derived laws and outlines employment law reforms
...employment legislation is included in the Schedule. Proposed changes to employment law However, the Government has issued a consultation seeking views on proposed changes to the Working Time Reg...
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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...
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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...
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Holiday Pay Claims
Holiday Pay Claims Following the recent holiday pay ruling, the President of the Employment Tribunals has directed that claimants who have already issued a claim for underpaid holiday can amend that c...
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National Insurance Contributions changes to termination payments postponed until April 2019
National Insurance Contributions changes to termination payments postponed until April 2019 The way that termination payments are taxed is due to change in April 2018 but planned changes to National I...
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Tribunal fee refunds - fewer than expected applying
...employment tribunal fees than expected. Tribunal fee refund - how is the government raising awareness of the right? The Supreme Court ruled last summer that employment tribunal fee...
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Discrimination: increase in injury to feelings awards
...Employment tribunals can also award compensation for injury to feelings in whistleblowing cases where employees or workers are subjected to detrimental treatment. When deciding on the level of an ...
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Adoption Leave and Pay Changes: Employer’s Technical Guidance
Adoption Leave and Pay Changes: Employer’s Technical Guidance Technical guidance on the changes to adoption leave and pay has been issued by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. Changes ...
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Further penalties to be introduced for employing illegal workers
...employment. The draft Employment Allowance (Disqualified Persons) Regulations 2017 provide that employers will be denied the NIC employment allowance for one year if: The employer has received a civi...
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Shared Parental Leave and Pay: New Guidance
Shared Parental Leave and Pay: New Guidance The Government has published guidance on shared parental leave and pay for both employers and employees. The guidance explains when an employee may be elig...
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Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Consultation Launched
...employment contract, a contract of apprenticeship or a contract personally to do work. However, it seeks views on whether the 250 employee threshold is appropriate, suggesting that it may apply a hi...
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Workplace covid tests: avoiding the legal and practical pitfalls
...employment or data protection laws. Click here to read Emily's article. This article was first published in Employment Law Journal
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Employment law reforms one step closer
...employment tribunal claims if their employer has not dealt with tips correctly. Employment Bill? It had been expected that these employment law reforms would be introduced via a wider Emplo...
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TUPE and Collective Redundancy Changes: Regulations and Guidance Published
...employment, and start again from scratch at that point; changes to terms will be void and dismissals automatically unfair where the “sole or principal” reason for the change or dismissal is the tran...
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Annual Whistleblowing Reports by Prescribed Persons
...Employment Act 2015, prescribed persons will be required to report annually on whistleblowing disclosures received. The draft Prescribed Persons (Report on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2...
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Government Considering Possible Changes to IR35
...employment taxes are paid; simplifying the test for determining if IR35 applies, for example by aligning the test with that used for temporary workers in the agency rules, which is based on supervis...
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Gender pay gap reporting: Guidance published
Gender pay gap reporting: Guidance published Acas and the Government Equalities Office have published draft guidance “Managing gender pay reporting in the private and voluntary sectors” designed to he...
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New Criminal Offence: Failing to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion and the Preventative Measures Employers are Liable to Make
...employment 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 provi...
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Home Office releases updated right to work guidance – again!
...employment while they await the outcome of their EUSS application. Evidencing the right to work with a pending EUSS application Employers must provide prospective employees with every opport...