26 October, 2015
26 October, 2015
Proposed measure would allow HMRC to provide information on employment to allow local authority to make deductions from earnings where council tax payer has liability order and has not volunteered employment details.
26 October, 2015
Prime Minister announces that organisations employing 1.8 million people to sign agreement aimed at combating race discrimination in recruitment.
19 October, 2015
Union issues advice on managing stress at work to coincide with European Health and Safety Week which starts today.
19 October, 2015
Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work Skills & Training Roseanna Cunningham makes the request in a letter to the UK Minister for Skills Nick Boles.
15 October, 2015
Bill moves to third reading on 26 October after three changes were agreed - the government should complete a large-scale analysis of the costs and funding implications of the policy; more information to be provided on the provision of flexible childcare outside the hours of 9am-5pm; and further regulations under the Bill to be debated and voted on in Parliament ahead of implementation.
14 October, 2015
13 October, 2015
Backed by Welsh Government and EU funds, the scheme will be delivered across each local authority in Wales and is expected to help 6,400 economically inactive parents, aged over 25, into work or training over the next three years.
13 October, 2015
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills seeks views on proposed changes to the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations including a proposal to ban employment agencies and businesses from recruiting solely from other EEA countries without advertising in Great Britain.
13 October, 2015
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills seeks views on proposals to improve the enforcement of employment rights to prevent non-compliance and the exploitation of vulnerable workers.
12 October, 2015
New publication sets out the government’s interim economic and non-economic evidence.
12 October, 2015
New Office for National Statistics figures also show that, after adjusting for inflation, the London Living Wage rose by 3 per cent between 2008 and 2014 while median hourly pay for employees aged 18 and over in London fell by 10 per cent.
7 October, 2015
New report sets out provisions in Bill - which is due to have second reading in the Commons on 13 October - including in relation to creating new office of illegal working and building on existing measures to restrict irregular migrants’ access to residential tenancies.
6 October, 2015
New guidance requires that companies who want to secure business with public bodies are now obliged to sign up to fair work conditions - paying the Living Wage, no unnecessary use of zero hours contracts, and giving workers an active voice in the workplace - for anyone working on the contracts.
5 October, 2015
Guardian reports on announcement by Chancellor with the aim of helping new parents to return to work more quickly.
5 October, 2015
Politics Home report that, in letter to Prime Minister, Len McCluskey says that union would agree to Trade Union Bill strike threshold changes if government would introduce workplace balloting procedures which are 'secret and are secure against any possibility of fraud or intimidation'.
2 October, 2015
In a letter to the Low Pay Commission, Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training Roseanna Cunningham also highlights that the UK government’s decision to set an arbitrary rate for the ‘national living wage’ fundamentally challenges the value of having an organisation providing independent advice on wage levels across the UK.
2 October, 2015
New regulations that exclude home businesses from the security of tenure given to tenants of premises which are occupied for business purposes, which will make it easier for tenants to be allowed business use of premises in a tenancy agreement, and for landlords to recover possession of the premises at the end of such a tenancy.
1 October, 2015
New regulations that amend the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 imposing a duty on every self-employed person to conduct his or her undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the self-employed person and other persons (not being his or her employees) who may be affected are not exposed to risks to their health and safety.
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