Employment
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Employment tribunal fees update
Code: Amber The Ministry of Justice is finalising details of a review into the impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced ...
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Right to flexible working extended to all employees today
Code: Green The right to request flexible working is extended to all eligible employees today as part of the changes being introduced by ...
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Government outlines plans on zero hour contracts
Code: Green Writing in the Telegraph on Wednesday, Vince Cable set out the Government’s vision for the future of zero hours contracts. In...
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Accrued annual leave not lost on death of a worker
Code: Green The ECJ has ruled that a worker’s accrued annual leave entitlement will not be lost in the event of their death. In the recen...
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Flexible Working Regulations published
Code green We previously reported that the Government planned to implement changes to the law on flexible working. The Flexible Working ...
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Union’s challenge to tribunal fees proceeds to Court of Appeal
CODE: Green The trades union, Unison, has been granted permission to proceed to the Court of Appeal in respect of its challenge to employ...
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TUPE – 1 May 2014 change to rules on Employee Liability Information...
Employers transferring whole/part of their business subject to the TUPE rules must provide prescribed information about their transferrin...
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6 April 2014 brings in a number of key changes in Employment Law
CODE: GREEN The 6th April 2014 brought in a number of key employment law changes, many of which we have been blogging about over the last...
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Dramatic decline in Employment Tribunal claims
Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice recently show that the number of claims lodged with the employment tribunal between Octob...
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National Minimum Wage to increase this October
This October the National Minimum Wage (NMW) will increase to £6.50 per hour, following the recommendation to the Government by the Low P...
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Draft Shared Parental Leave Regulations published – to be reviewed ...
CODE: GREEN The Government published the draft Regulations for Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay on 5 March 2014 (h...
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Will recent changes to TUPE be annulled?
CODE: AMBER We reported in our blog of 31 January 2014 that amendments to the TUPE Regulations had been made by the Collective Redundanci...
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Employment compensation on the increase
CODE: Green The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2014 has been published confirming increases in statutory compensation limit...
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New date announced for the extension of the right to request flexib...
CODE: GREEN On 16 January 2014 we reported that, on 6 April 2014, the Government planned to implement changes to the law on flexible work...
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Tribunal structure is robust but morale is low
This month the Senior President of Tribunals, Sir Jeremy Sullivan, published his annual report. He found that, overall, employment tribun...
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New tribunal penalties against employers to be introduced
CODE: Red We reported on these new employer penalties in our 9 October 2013 blog and can confirm they are being introduced on 6 April 20...