Employment

Lockwood v Department of Work and Pensions & Anor

[2013] EWCA Civ 1195

Employment case law round up

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills issues new minimum wage guidance

'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.

Welsh Government presents Draft Budget for 2014/2015

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.

Employment case law round up

Employment Law Update

Issue 155 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

Enforcing national minimum wage law

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.

Employment case law round up

Intended and birth mother in surrogacy entitled to maternity leave, says ECJ advocate general

European Court of Justice legal opinion would require both women to split the paid leave, each taking at least two weeks.

‘Landmark’ employment tribunal win for CAB

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.

‘In-work poverty, ethnicity and workplace cultures’

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.

Labour to raise minimum wage to keep pace with inflation

One of measures set out by Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband in his speech to Conference this afternoon.

Employment case law round up

More working families in Wales now living in poverty than those who are out of work

New Joseph Rowntree report, based on research by New Policy Institute, blames underemployment and low pay for rise in in-work poverty.

Employment Law Update

Issue 154 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

Business Secretary announces ‘plans to boost fairness for workers’

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.

Courts and Tribunals Fee Remissions Order 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.