Employment

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.

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.

Employment case law round up

New figures show 10 per cent increase in number of Employment Tribunal appeals over last year

Increase driven by a 40 per cent increase in Sex Discrimination claims, and a 63 per cent increase in Equal Pay claims.

Employment for May-July 2013 up by 0.2 per cent on previous three months

New Office for National Statistics figures show that 80,000 more people of working age in employment.

Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS) to close at end of 2013

Minister for Immigration Mark Harper says that government will not open any further SAWS for Bulgarian and Romanian workers because, at time of unemployment in UK and EU, there should be sufficient workers from within those labour markets to meet the needs of the horticultural industry.

‘Workers will have to raid savings to take case to tribunal’, says TUC

Warning following government announcement that it will go ahead with proposals on reform of fee remission system, including that individual or household with £3,000 in savings will not be entitled to fee remission from 7 October 2013.

Government decides to go ahead with single system of fee remission

Ministerial statement by Justice Minister Helen Grant says that, following consultation, new measures - that include capital test for remission of fees and greater contribution from those paying a fee - will come into force from 7 October 2013 across a range of courts and tribunals