23 December, 2014
22 December, 2014
'Fees are pricing people out of basic workplace rights and a justice system that is supposed to protect them', says Chief Executive.
22 December, 2014
New statutory instrument creates requirement that employment agencies and employment businesses that wish to advertise such vacancies elsewhere in the EEA will also have to advertise them in English in Great Britain unless they believe, on reasonable grounds, that doing so would be disproportionate, with breach of requirement constituting criminal offence.
19 December, 2014
New impact assessment considers effect of government's proposed action to change the law on recovery of previous underpaid wages following the case of Fulton v Bear Scotland Ltd and Others which set out that payment for non-guaranteed overtime should be included in the calculation of holiday pay.
19 December, 2014
New regulations that establish a two year limitation on how far back in time workers’ employment tribunal claims for deduction from wages can go.
18 December, 2014
Changes to regulations, made in response to recent Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling, to apply to Employment Tribunal claims made on or after 1 July 2015.
17 December, 2014
17 December, 2014
In dismissing appeal brought by Unison, the High Court says that there is still insufficient evidence to show that fees are making it more difficult to bring cases to a tribunal.
15 December, 2014
Guardian reports that, in speech today, Ed Miliband to announce new measures to tackle migrant workers being paid less and offered worse terms and conditions than local workers.
15 December, 2014
In new report, which also finds that zero hours workers much less likely to qualify for statutory sick pay, union highlights the impact that growth in precarious labour is having on workers’ pay and rights at work, and warns that this is a sign of the 'growing two-tier workforce'.
12 December, 2014
Tackling worklessness and low pay makes economic sense, the JRF says, since it cuts the amount spent on welfare and tax credits, with indirect savings in other public service areas; increases contributions to central government; and boosts the amount of money spent in local economies, which increases wealth through a ripple effect.
11 December, 2014
However, new statistics from the Ministry of Justice report that there has been a 12 per cent increase compared to the previous quarter - April to June 2014.
9 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes amendments to the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002 including to provide new rights to adoption leave to local authority foster parents who are prospective adopters and so that an employee cannot take paternity or adoption leave in relation to a child if they have already taken such leave in relation to that child.
9 December, 2014
New statutory instrument removes a limitation on parental leave so as to permit the leave to be taken at any time before a child’s eighteenth birthday and amends the provision on the right to return after maternity and parental leave.
8 December, 2014
New report sets out progress on improving employment support for disabled people and those with health conditions a year after strategy first published.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes provision relating to shared parental leave in respect of adoptions from overseas.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes provision entitling a parent who is adopting a child from overseas to shared parental leave.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument makes provision to allow a parent who is having a child with help of surrogate to be entitled to ordinary or additional adoption leave and to curtail that leave to access shared parental leave.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument provides rights to paternity and adoption leave, to curtail adoption leave and to shared parental leave in respect of parents having a child with the help of a surrogate.
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