21 October, 2013
21 October, 2013
Written statement to parliament also confirms government view that non-departmental public body remains the best way to deliver those functions.
16 October, 2013
Guardian reports Downing Street spokesman as saying that proposal to exempt people with assets of more than £23,250 on top of the value of their home from scheme to defer costs of long-term was a 'starting point'.
15 October, 2013
Issue 156 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
11 October, 2013
'Calculating the minimum wage' provides practical advice and examples to explain: what counts and does not count as pay and working hours for minimum wage purposes; eligibility for the minimum wage; how to calculate the minimum wage; and how government will enforce the minimum wage.
9 October, 2013
Measures include allocation of £50m to establish new Intermediate Care Fund (designed to allow care recipients to remain in their own homes), continuation of universal benefits like free prescriptions and free school breakfasts and £12.5m to fund job opportunities for young people.
4 October, 2013
3 October, 2013
Issue 155 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
1 October, 2013
New Department for Business, Innovation & Skills publication explains how the revised scheme to name employers, which came into effect today, will operate, and how the government operates the civil and criminal enforcement regime of the national minimum wage law.
27 September, 2013
European Court of Justice legal opinion would require both women to split the paid leave, each taking at least two weeks.
25 September, 2013
Citizens Advice report a successful challenge, based on the European Working Time Directive, to employer's token payment of £1 in lieu of untaken holidays when worker's employment ended.
25 September, 2013
Joseph Rowntree Foundation report finds that the high representation of ethnic minorities in low-paid work calls for a better understanding of the role of workplace cultures in routes out of poverty.
24 September, 2013
One of measures set out by Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband in his speech to Conference this afternoon.
19 September, 2013
New Joseph Rowntree report, based on research by New Policy Institute, blames underemployment and low pay for rise in in-work poverty.
18 September, 2013
Issue 154 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
17 September, 2013
Vince Cable says that consultation to be launched on zero hours contracts and that he's asked Low Pay Commission to consider how national minimum wage can rise faster over medium term.
16 September, 2013
New statutory instrument introduces single fee remissions system to all court and tribunals, with changes to disposable capital rules, and also introduces fee for judicial review oral hearing.
13 September, 2013
Increase driven by a 40 per cent increase in Sex Discrimination claims, and a 63 per cent increase in Equal Pay claims.
12 September, 2013
New Office for National Statistics figures show that 80,000 more people of working age in employment.
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