8 December, 2014
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes provision entitling a parent who is adopting a child from overseas to shared parental leave.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes provision to allow a parent who is having a child with help of surrogate to be entitled to ordinary or additional adoption leave and to curtail that leave to access shared parental leave.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument provides rights to paternity and adoption leave, to curtail adoption leave and to shared parental leave in respect of parents having a child with the help of a surrogate.
8 December, 2014
3 December, 2014
Extension announced in today's Autumn Statement (paragraph 1.234) means that a family will be able to employ a care worker on a salary of up to £22,500 and pay no employer NI contributions and, in addition, care workers will be exempted from the impacts of removing the £8,500 threshold below which employees do not pay income tax on benefits in kind.
3 December, 2014
2 December, 2014
New report finds that attitudes of many employers are still stuck in the 1970s, with sacking, bullying and sidelining of expectant mothers commonplace.
1 December, 2014
New rules 'will give real choice to parents', says Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson.
1 December, 2014
27 November, 2014
New regulations issued that provide for women entitled to ordinary or additional maternity leave to curtail that leave to enable them or their spouse, civil partner or partner to take shared parental leave (and for corresponding provision for those entitled to adoption leave).
24 November, 2014
New report from the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group looks at how concerns about the use of ‘traditional’ umbrella arrangements, which give low-paid agency workers some tax relief on their travel expenses and increase their take home pay, resulted in the birth of ‘Pay Day by Pay Day’ schemes.
24 November, 2014
24 November, 2014
Bill to limit the use of zero-hours contracts has begun its second reading in the Commons.
24 November, 2014
New regulations issued that provide for a mother/adopter and a child’s father/adoptive parent or a mother’s or adopter’s partner to take shared parental leave.
20 November, 2014
New statistics also show that, of cases dealt with in the first quarter, 58 per cent did not progress to a tribunal claim, 18 per cent were formally settled using the COT3 without going to tribunal, and 24 per cent progressed to a tribunal claim.
18 November, 2014
New Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report provides detailed information on the characteristics of claimants and the type of complaint they have brought to a tribunal.
17 November, 2014
14 November, 2014
Investigation by Community Care finds the average spend per council on temporary agency staff is £1.8 million, although there are regional variations with many Scottish and Welsh councils reporting almost no spending on agency workers and six out of the top ten biggest spending councils being in Greater London and the home counties.
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