26 September, 2014
25 September, 2014
New Ministry of Justice statistics include that total of legal help matters started and civil representation certificates granted was 32 in employment cases, 2,584 in debt cases, 3,877 in community care cases and 55,943 in housing cases.
24 September, 2014
New statutory instrument requires employment tribunals to order a respondent who has been found by the tribunal to have committed an equal pay breach to carry out an equal pay audit.
23 September, 2014
Scottish Government reports on wage rates agreed by the Wages Board on 20 August 2014, including that minimum rate of pay for agricultural workers with more than 26 weeks continuous employment will increase by 15p per hour to £7.14 from 1 October 2014.
22 September, 2014
BBC reports on election pledge by Ed Miliband ahead of his speech to the Labour Party conference tomorrow.
19 September, 2014
New regulations that take effect from 1 October 2014 and increase the minimum wage to £6.50 per hour for those aged 21 and over, £5.13 per hour for those aged 18 up to 21, and £3.79 per hour for those aged under 18.
18 September, 2014
11 September, 2014
Ministry of Justice publsihes new quarterly tribunals statistics.
10 September, 2014
Research carried out by BBC Wales finds that nearly 4,000 people are directly employed on the contracts by Welsh councils, with Powys council the biggest user of them.
3 September, 2014
New analysis from the TUC shows that, while unemployment is falling, there are now 3.4 million people underemployed - 46 per cent higher than before the recession.
29 August, 2014
New research published by the TUC shows that while around two in five part-time jobs pay less than the living wage, earning less than the living wage is the norm for women in over 50 local authority areas across Britain.
26 August, 2014
BIS consultation, published today, also includes government response to Zero Hours Employment Contracts consultation which ran from December 2013 to March 2014.
18 August, 2014
View sought on modernising the repair and maintenance of fixed equipment and end-of-tenancy compensation in England.
14 August, 2014
New independent report, published by Scottish Government, outlines range of recommendations to improve workplace relations and productivity, including legislation to ensure worker representation on the board of every public sector body.
8 August, 2014
New regulations that, amongst other measures, remove the 26 week qualification period for entitlement to adoption leave; ensure that a parent is not entitled to take paternity leave in relation to a child once he or she has taken any shared parental leave for the same child; provide protection for employees who suffer detriment or dismissal in relation to time off for antenatal or adoption appointments; and amend the right to return following paternity or adoption leave to take account of the forthcoming shared parental leave regulations.
31 July, 2014
Fees, introduced a year ago, represent 'a major barrier to access to justice', says Law Society.
31 July, 2014
New Act aims to safeguard agricultural workers following the government's abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.
28 July, 2014
New Citizens Advice research highlights that, with the government having introduced fees of up to £1,200 to access the Employment Tribunal on 29 July last year, in the six months from October 2013 to March 2014 there was a 73% drop in claims on the same period the previous year.
25 July, 2014
Service - designed to help employees and employers to manage sickness absence - will be launched in late 2014 with a phased roll-out coming to a close by the end of May 2015.
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