16 January, 2014
16 January, 2014
New regulations abolish requirement placed on employers, set out in the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982, to maintain records of employees relating to sickness absence and payment of SSP.
15 January, 2014
Business Secretary Vince Cable says that, as well as introducing higher penalties, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has made it easier to 'name and shame' employers who fail to pay minimum wage, and is working with HMRC to investigate non-compliance and facilitate prosecutions in most serious of cases.
15 January, 2014
[2014] CSIH 5
14 January, 2014
New statutory instrument inserts new sections into the provisions relating to collective redundancies in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 so as to implement EC Directive 1998/59 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies.
14 January, 2014
Issue 160 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
10 January, 2014
9 January, 2014
James Sage also warns that the Employment Appeal Tribunal decision in Whittlestone v BJP Home Support Limited is 'a stark reminder to care providers of the duty to pay staff the national minimum wage, taking into account travel time and when someone works over night on a sleepover shift'.
6 January, 2014
3 January, 2014
'Top tips' aimed at improving the commissioning of home care services published by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
23 December, 2013
19 December, 2013
[2013] EWCA Civ 1650
19 December, 2013
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Vince Cable says that government wants 'to maximise the opportunities of zero hours contracts while minimising abuse and setting core standards that protect individuals'.
18 December, 2013
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills sets out its response to the consultation on changes to rules governing collective redundancies.
17 December, 2013
New DWP policy paper outlines its proposals for improving employment support for disabled people and those with health conditions.
16 December, 2013
12 December, 2013
Decrease driven by a 17 per cent fall in working time directive claims and also large decreases in unfair dismissal (42 per cent) and redundancy (36 per cent) claims.
12 December, 2013
New IPPR report also shows that universal childcare could help more than a quarter of a million parents to get back to work and boost the nation’s balance sheet by as much as £1.5bn.
12 December, 2013
New research from the Nuffield Foundation finds that policies introduced in the late 1990s and early 2000s - including introduction of tax credits and extension of state support for childcare - made it easier for lone mothers to achieve a satisfactory balance between work and childcare.
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