21 July, 2015
20 July, 2015
16 July, 2015
Views sought, by 9 September 2015, on whom within the fire, health, education, transport, border security, and nuclear decommissioning sectors should be subject to requirement that industrial action will need the support of at least 40 per cent of those entitled to vote.
16 July, 2015
Views sought, by 9 September 2015, on removing regulation 7 of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 so as to allow employers facing industrial action to hire temporary agency workers to perform some of the functions not being carried out due to the industrial action.
15 July, 2015
Bill to include plans to criminalise picketing, to permit employers to hire 'strike-breaking' agency staff, and for strikes to be made unlawful unless backed by 50 per cent of those entitled to vote in any strike ballot.
14 July, 2015
Views sought on regulations that will impose gender pay requirement on employers with more than 250 employees and on wider action that can be taken to inspire girls and young women, modernise workplaces and support older working women.
14 July, 2015
13 July, 2015
Politics Home reports on removal of 'so far as may be lawful' clause from union's rule book in response to government's forthcoming anti-strike legislation.
13 July, 2015
LGA supports introduction of Living Wage but says that its vital that extra cost of wages for council workers and care workers is considered by government in wider debate on council funding.
13 July, 2015
9 July, 2015
Clauses 1 and 2 of new Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015/2016 provide for Secretary of State to have to lay a report before Parliament annually on the progress which has been made towards full employment and, no later than nine months after the end of each reporting period, information about the progress made towards the apprenticeships target.
8 July, 2015
Government announces that extended provision to free childcare will be introduced generally from September 2017 but with early introduction in some local areas from September 2016, and additionally that Tax-Free Childcare will be introduced from early 2017 (paragraphs 1.163 to 1.164).
8 July, 2015
New rate - which will be paid to workers aged 25 and over - is a rise of 50p over the National Minimum Wage rate due to come into effect in October 2015 and is set to rise to £9 per hour by 2020 (paragraph 1.121).
8 July, 2015
[2015] NICA 47
7 July, 2015
Private Member's Bill, which received first reading yesterday, due to have second reading on 22 January 2016.
7 July, 2015
Responding to Acas report on Early Conciliation, union highlights that at least one in four claimants whose cases are not settled by conciliation are being put off from further action by the costs.
7 July, 2015
New figures show that Acas has dealt with over 83,000 cases between April 2014 and March 2015; three out of four employees and employers agreed to try Early Conciliation in its first year of operation; and eight out of ten people who took part were satisfied with the service they received.
6 July, 2015
2 July, 2015
Review, which is expected to be published in early 2016, will report to the government on the challenges and opportunities for those who want to work for themselves.
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