15 December, 2014
12 December, 2014
Tackling worklessness and low pay makes economic sense, the JRF says, since it cuts the amount spent on welfare and tax credits, with indirect savings in other public service areas; increases contributions to central government; and boosts the amount of money spent in local economies, which increases wealth through a ripple effect.
11 December, 2014
However, new statistics from the Ministry of Justice report that there has been a 12 per cent increase compared to the previous quarter - April to June 2014.
9 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes amendments to the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002 including to provide new rights to adoption leave to local authority foster parents who are prospective adopters and so that an employee cannot take paternity or adoption leave in relation to a child if they have already taken such leave in relation to that child.
9 December, 2014
New statutory instrument removes a limitation on parental leave so as to permit the leave to be taken at any time before a child’s eighteenth birthday and amends the provision on the right to return after maternity and parental leave.
8 December, 2014
New report sets out progress on improving employment support for disabled people and those with health conditions a year after strategy first published.
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.
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
Additional funding announced in today's Autumn Statement 2014 (paragraph 2.234).
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.
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
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.
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