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19 January, 2011

Institute for Public Policy Research warns of possible ‘double dip’ in employment

UK economy needs to grow at an annual rate of more than 2 per cent if unemployment is to fall, and there is a real risk that growth will not be fast enough during 2011.

19 January, 2011

Trends in the employment of disabled people in the UK

New working paper published by the Institute for Social & Economic Research.

19 January, 2011

Employment Law Update

Issue 95 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

18 January, 2011

Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2011

New regulations that bring into force specified provisions of the Equality Act 2010, including enabling powers relating to the public sector equality duty and a provision concerning positive action in relation to recruitment and promotion.

17 January, 2011

Ministers to launch consultation on a new ‘properly flexible system’ of shared parental leave

Deputy Prime Minister outlines plans to reform childcare in a speech at Demos thinktank.

17 January, 2011

Official statistics show 8 per cent fall in claims to Employment Tribunals

New Tribunals Service figures for the second quarter of 2010/2011.

14 January, 2011

Pensions Bill 2011

Introduces measures including from 2012 employers will be required to automatically enrol eligible employees into a qualifying pension scheme.

14 January, 2011

Removal of the Default Retirement Age is a strong legislative move towards ending age discrimination

Chartered Management Institute welcomes the phasing out of the DRA.

13 January, 2011

Government issues guidance on how to deal with the Equality Act’s positive action provisions

Written statement made by Minister for Equalities in parliament.

13 January, 2011

Policy on HMRC enforcement, prosecutions and naming employers who flout national minimum wage law

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills publication sets out how the scheme will operate, and the criteria for naming employers.

13 January, 2011

Government confirms that it will remove the Default Retirement Age

Ministers have decided to proceed with their plan to phase out the DRA between 6 April and 1 October 2011.

11 January, 2011

Interns working for three months or more should be paid £2.50-an-hour training wage

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development also recommends that the government extend the right to request flexible working to all employees.

23 December, 2010

Impact on former offenders of exclusion from bank accounts, insurance and affordable credit

New report from the Prison Reform Trust and UNLOCK, the National Association of Reformed Offenders.

22 December, 2010

Employment Law Update

Issue 94 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.

21 December, 2010

National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2010

New amendment regulations issued to provide that money payments paid by an employer in respect of travelling expenses that are allowed as deductions from earnings do not count towards the national minimum wage.

15 December, 2010

Job outlook ‘increasingly bleak’

TUC comment on latest unemployment figures which show sharpest monthly increase since May 2009.

14 December, 2010

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2010

New statutory instrument that increases, from 1 February,2011, the limits applying to awards of employment tribunals and other amounts payable under employment legislation.

13 December, 2010

CBI calls for retirement age change delay

Companies will face huge uncertainty and greater risk of tribunal claims unless there is more legal clarity over the plans.

9 December, 2010

Employment Law Update

Issue 93 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.