20 March, 2015
20 March, 2015
Documents are designed to help employers understand the law relating to whistleblowing; put in place a whistleblowing policy; and recognise the benefits that whistleblowing can bring to an organisation.
20 March, 2015
New regulations issued in Northern Ireland that deal with eligibility, applications, breaches of procedure and compensation in relation to statutory applications for contract variation to allow flexible working under the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.
20 March, 2015
New regulations issued in Northern Ireland that remove the limitation on parental leave so that it may be taken at any time before a child’s eighteenth birthday; and amend the right to return after maternity and parent leave to reflect the introduction of shared parental leave by the Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015.
20 March, 2015
New statutory rules
19 March, 2015
Analysis of helpline calls also finds that many agency workers are afraid of asserting their statutory rights due to believing that there's an imbalance of power in the employment relationship.
18 March, 2015
17 March, 2015
Increases from 1 October 2015 include that adult rate will rise by 20 pence from £6.50 to £6.70 per hour, as recommended by the Low Pay Commission in March this year.
13 March, 2015
New company, which Maximus will have a 70 per cent stake in, will still be known as Remploy Employment Services and will continue to deliver Work Choice nationally.
13 March, 2015
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills publishes analysis of what employers and trainees think of the traineeships scheme, which launched in 2013, and how effective the scheme has been at helping former trainees into apprenticeships and work.
12 March, 2015
Report concludes that, while progress on some headline measures of gender equality has continued, the employment and pay gap have continued to narrow, and that some women are facing new hardships and barriers to equality.
12 March, 2015
New regulations issued that consolidate the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 and subsequent amending regulations with the purpose of making the rules clearer and more workable for employers and employees.
12 March, 2015
Peers voted yesterday against proposal on employers' responsibility to pay compensation to workers, including those on zero hours contracts, if shifts are cancelled at short notice; additional protection for whistleblowers who are job applicants; and extending right to a fixed hours contract to workers who have worked regular hours over a continuous period even if they are employed on a zero hours contract.
12 March, 2015
Government says it has begun drafting regulations which will enable a power in the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Bill to grant the Secretary of State a power to require persons prescribed under section 43F of the Employment Rights Act 1996 to report annually on whistleblowing issues.
12 March, 2015
In written answer to parliament, Under-Secretary for Justice says that, whilst government has committed to review fees, it believes this is better determined by the new administration following the election.
12 March, 2015
New statistics from the Ministry of Justice highlight that this follows a very rapid decline in receipts the previous year - from October to December 2013 - coinciding with the introduction of employment tribunal fees in July 2013.
11 March, 2015
New Office for National Statistics analysis also shows that between 2007 and 2012, of those aged 18 to 59 who were in income poverty, but then entered employment, 70 per cent moved out of poverty and the other 30 per cent remained in poverty, despite entering employment.
11 March, 2015
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will ban exclusivity terms in zero hours contracts, allow for regulations to be created to deal with employers who avoid the ban, and provide routes of compensation for employees who have been offered a contract with an exclusivity clause.
10 March, 2015
Change to the Data Protection Act aimed at protecting the rehabilitation of offenders and ensuring that those who committed less serious crimes have a fairer chance of finding employment.
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