Employment

Employment Law Update

Issue 150 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

Guide to Enterprise and regulatory Reform Act 2014

Department for Business Innovation and Skills publishes policy documents setting out what the Act entails including changes to employment tribunal system and amendments to Equality Act 2010.

Employment case law round up

TUC urges MPs to halt employment tribunal fees

As MPs debate proposals today, union argues that fees proposed have been set disproportionately high in order to deter many people from taking valid employment claims to tribunal.

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013

New regulations replace the existing rules of procedure for employment tribunals, including the introduction of fees, with effect from 29 July 2013.

More than 26,000 employees repaid £4m by employers who had refused to pay minimum wage

Guardian report on results of tougher enforcement of minimum wage law by HMRC.

Employment case law round up

Government consultation on equal pay audits

The government today issued a consultation paper regarding the detail of mandatory equal pay audits, which proposed regulations will require of firms found, by an employment tribunal, to be in breach of equal pay law .

8.5 per cent real-term drop in wages for UK workers, says TUC

New figures, responding to latest inflation figures, show that average salaries in March 2013 down by £2,234 on 2010 level.

Employment case law round up

Number of people homeworking increases by 13 per cent over last five years

New TUC figures published to coincide with Friday's 'National Work From Home Day'.

Employment law update

Issue 148 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

200,000 employed on zero-hours contracts

The government estimates that there were 200,000 people (0.7 per cent of those employed in the UK) on zero-hours contracts for the 4th quarter of 2012.

The President of the Methodist Conference v Preston

2013] UKSC 29

Employment case law round up

Deregulation Bill

Bill, introduced in today's Queen's Speech, contains provisions that include reducing qualifying period for Right to Buy from five to three years and removing power from employment tribunals to make wider recommendations in successful discrimination cases.

Wage inequality and employment polarisation in British cities

Findings of new Joseph Rowntree Foundation report include that cities in the south of England tend to have the highest levels of inequality, while smaller cities and those that have experienced industrial decline tend to have the most equal labour markets.