21 February, 2014
19 February, 2014
New statutory rules increases, from 16 February 2014, the limits applying to certain awards of industrial tribunals, the Fair Employment Tribunal or Labour Relations Agency statutory arbitration, and other amounts payable under employment legislation, as specified in the Schedule to the Order.
14 February, 2014
'Frankly hypocritical' to advise anything other than ‘you must pay the minimum wage to everyone working for you’, says TUC General Secretary in response to leaked document.
14 February, 2014
New regulations issued in relation to the requirement for prospective claimants to contact ACAS before they are able to present a claim in the Employment Tribunal.
11 February, 2014
Issue 162 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
10 February, 2014
New scheme, for people who have been on sick leave for more than four weeks, will be run by private sector and funded by cutting government contribution to statutory sick pay.
7 February, 2014
3 February, 2014
Act provides for new fund for payments to be made to people who suffer from mesothelioma following exposure to asbestos at work where no solvent employer remains to be sued and the employee is unable to trace any insurer who was providing employer's liability insurance to their employer at the material time
31 January, 2014
Changes introduced by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014) will apply in respect of transfers which take place on or after 31 January 2014.
30 January, 2014
New figures also show 49 per cent increase in young people having problems with terms and conditions of employment and a 10 per cent increase in problems with pay and entitlements.
28 January, 2014
Issue 161 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
27 January, 2014
Finding of new Homeless Link report, 'Young and Homeless 2013', based on survey of 169 frontline agencies.
27 January, 2014
Scottish Government provides figures on Partnership Action for Continuing Employment for period April 2013 until December 2013.
21 January, 2014
New DWP and DoH-funded study advocates activities for benefit claimants with, or at risk of, developing depression or anxiety, to 'build belief in capability for work and increase emotional resilience to the setbacks people face when job seeking'.
20 January, 2014
New report by TUC, which looks at regional labour markets over the last 20 years, also finds decrease in likelihood of work in West Midlands and South West.
16 January, 2014
Business Secretary has also asked the Commission to carry out an assessment of the economic conditions that will allow for faster increases in NMW rates without an adverse effect on jobs.
16 January, 2014
New regulations abolish requirement placed on employers, set out in the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982, to maintain records of employees relating to sickness absence and payment of SSP.
15 January, 2014
Business Secretary Vince Cable says that, as well as introducing higher penalties, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has made it easier to 'name and shame' employers who fail to pay minimum wage, and is working with HMRC to investigate non-compliance and facilitate prosecutions in most serious of cases.
14 January, 2014
New statutory instrument inserts new sections into the provisions relating to collective redundancies in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 so as to implement EC Directive 1998/59 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies.
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