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1 March, 2022

Peers vote in favour of amendment to the Nationality and Borders Bill that gives asylum seekers a right to work after six months

Conservative peer Baroness Stroud highlights that introducing the right to work will support the government’s own poverty strategy of families working their way out of poverty

28 February, 2022

25 February, 2022 Open access

DWP has no idea whether ‘chaotic’ Kickstart scheme was worth the money, says Public Accounts Committee

Despite spending in excess of £1bn on the scheme, it reached far fewer people than intended, and the Department has little idea what was delivered

25 February, 2022

23 February, 2022 Open access

Government must account for what it has spent in response to pandemic and be held accountable for its ‘unacceptable level of mistakes, waste, loss and openings for fraudsters’

Public Accounts Committee says it is 'crucial' that lessons are learned and embedded for when the next big crisis hits

17 February, 2022

Mrs Justice Eady appointed President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in England and Wales

Appointment, replacing Mr Justice Choudhury, is effective from 1 February 2022

17 February, 2022

Acas publishes new bereavement guidance for employers and employees

Advice designed to help deal with bereavement in a supportive, compassionate and practical way

11 February, 2022

11 February, 2022

Level of fraud and error in furlough payments that employers will get away with as a result of HMRC ‘ignorance and inaction’ is a real concern, say MPs

New report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee highlights that £5.3 billion was lost in payments made through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in 2020/2021

8 February, 2022

MPs call on government to introduce legislation requiring employers to report ethnicity pay gap data

Government has 'no excuse' for failing to move ahead with proposals in 2018 consultation, says Chair of Women and Equalities Committee

8 February, 2022

Northern Ireland Assembly passes bill to introduce parental bereavement leave and pay

Bill includes provision to align rights with those for the rest of the UK and to extend these at a later date to make bereavement pay a day one right and to include working parents who suffer loss of a child through miscarriage

4 February, 2022

Supreme Court’s Unison judgment ‘strayed beyond the proper boundaries of where judicial review should lie’

Attorney General advises Justice Committee that this is why 'a debate is needed about the boundaries of judicial review being properly drawn'

2 February, 2022

Kickstart scheme’s failure to hit its target is because the ‘wider economic recovery has been so strong’

Minister confirms that, less than two months before the scheme is due to close, only 122,000 jobs have been started against a target of 250,000

1 February, 2022 Open access

Government to consult on removing vaccination as a condition of employment for health and social care staff

Secretary of State tells parliament that it's not only right but responsible to revisit the balance of risks and opportunities that guided the government's original decision last year.

1 February, 2022 Open access

Wales TUC launches survey in response to increase in workers reporting sexual harassment during Covid-19 pandemic

Results will help support union representatives in combatting perpetrators, and to campaign for an end to sexual harassment for everyone

24 January, 2022

DWP expands Restart scheme to include universal credit claimants who have been unemployed for nine months or more

New edition of Touchbase also outlines discretionary grounds for referring claimants to the scheme who have been unemployed for shorter periods

24 January, 2022

Government confirms that Identification Document Validation Technology will enable more people to verify their immigration status online to comply with the ‘right to rent’ and ‘right to work’ regimes

Certified service providers will carry out the checks on behalf of landlords, letting agents and employers, making ID checking 'quicker, easier and more secure'

11 January, 2022

Extending right to be provided with PPE to ‘gig economy’ workers

New statutory instrument addresses High Court ruling that UK Government had failed to properly apply provisions within EU health and safety directives to ‘limb (b)’ workers