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25 September, 2014

Legal Aid Statistics for 2013/2014

New Ministry of Justice statistics include that total of legal help matters started and civil representation certificates granted was 32 in employment cases, 2,584 in debt cases, 3,877 in community care cases and 55,943 in housing cases.

24 September, 2014

Equality Act 2010 (Equal Pay Audits) Regulations 2014

New statutory instrument requires employment tribunals to order a respondent who has been found by the tribunal to have committed an equal pay breach to carry out an equal pay audit.

23 September, 2014

Scottish Agricultural Wages Board confirms rise in minimum wage for agricultural workers

Scottish Government reports on wage rates agreed by the Wages Board on 20 August 2014, including that minimum rate of pay for agricultural workers with more than 26 weeks continuous employment will increase by 15p per hour to £7.14 from 1 October 2014.

22 September, 2014

Creditsights Ltd v Dhunna

[2014] EWCA Civ 1238

22 September, 2014

22 September, 2014

22 September, 2014

Labour would raise national minimum wage to £8 per hour by 2020

BBC reports on election pledge by Ed Miliband ahead of his speech to the Labour Party conference tomorrow.

19 September, 2014

National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014

New regulations that take effect from 1 October 2014 and increase the minimum wage to £6.50 per hour for those aged 21 and over, £5.13 per hour for those aged 18 up to 21, and £3.79 per hour for those aged under 18.

18 September, 2014

New judicial review into employment tribunal fees to be heard in High Court

Lord Chancellor agrees with Unison that a new hearing should take place as soon as possible, in light of new evidence.

15 September, 2014

11 September, 2014

Employment tribunal appeals fall by 70 per cent compared to same period last year

Ministry of Justice publsihes new quarterly tribunals statistics.

10 September, 2014

Eight of the 22 Welsh councils are currently using zero-hours contracts

Research carried out by BBC Wales finds that nearly 4,000 people are directly employed on the contracts by Welsh councils, with Powys council the biggest user of them.

8 September, 2014

3 September, 2014

Number of people underemployed has increased by 93,000 over last two years

New analysis from the TUC shows that, while unemployment is falling, there are now 3.4 million people underemployed - 46 per cent higher than before the recession.

1 September, 2014

29 August, 2014

Majority of women working part-time paid less than living wage in many parts of Britain

New research published by the TUC shows that while around two in five part-time jobs pay less than the living wage, earning less than the living wage is the norm for women in over 50 local authority areas across Britain.

26 August, 2014

26 August, 2014

Views sought on preventing employers avoiding ban on exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts

BIS consultation, published today, also includes government response to Zero Hours Employment Contracts consultation which ran from December 2013 to March 2014.

18 August, 2014