ACAS has recently published advice for employers on how to support parents who have given birth to premature or sick babies. As you would expect the normal processes for communication and paperwork gathering need to be dealt with carefully in such a delicate situation. The advice [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) recently considered whether a worker who did not take holiday because he was not paid for periods of annual leave was in fact entitled to 13 years’ worth of unpaid holiday pay. EU Law Holiday Entitlement and [...]
Here’s a simple question – when you started your business did you put in place a Shareholder or Partnership agreement? You could be forgiven for pushing this to the bottom of the pile whilst you focus on building and expanding your business but you don’t want [...]
The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2018 has been announced and increases the employment tribunal compensation limits that can be awarded in unfair dismissal claims. The new limits will take effect from 6th April 2018 and mean that a finding of unfair dismissal could cost [...]
The UK National Minimum Wage rates for 2018 have now been confirmed, and effective from 1st April 2018 workers aged 25 and over will see their hourly rate increase to £7.83 (up 33p from £7.50). National Minimum Wage Rates will be as follows: Workers aged 25 [...]
In response to the findings published last year in Matthew Taylor’s Review of Modern Working Practices, the Government has today pledged to follow through on some of the recommendations and improve employment rights for millions of flexible workers. Business Secretary Greg Clark announced that the new [...]
The recent spate of allegations of sexual misconduct stemming from Hollywood and US Congress raise the important issue of sexual harassment in the workplace. Since these allegations have come to the light the BBC has reported that it is investigating some 25 complaints made this year [...]
The debate surrounding the employment status of gig economy workers rumbles on after the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) recently ruled that Deliveroo couriers are correctly classed as self-employed contractors. Earlier this year, the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) asked Deliveroo to recognise it as [...]
In October 2016 the Employment Tribunal decided that Uber drivers were “workers” for the purposes of employment law, not self-employed as Uber had claimed. Uber appealed to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) who have now dismissed the appeal, agreeing with the original decision that the drivers [...]
Following our last update on the Supreme Court judgement ruling employment tribunal fees discriminatory and unlawful, the Government has now announced preliminary details of its refund scheme. In a joint statement from the Ministry of Justice and the HM Courts & Tribunal Service, a phased approach [...]
