By Chelsea Davis, 17 February 2016 SME employers regularly face problems with the current employment tribunal system being too expensive to use. Figures show that the introduction of tribunal fees reduced the number of claims by approximately 75%. However, this may be about to change. Lord Justice Briggs has just recently presented an interim report […]
September 19, 2016
Hayley Kirton, 11 September 2015 Mixed reactions as UK employers grapple with the implications. Time spent travelling to and from home by employees without a fixed working base should count towards time worked, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. The decision relates to a case – Federacion de Servicios Privados v Tyco […]
September 19, 2016
Jayne Flint, 28 July 2015 Companies need to know regulatory issues of recruiting apprentices. The number of employees going on training courses outside the workplace has fallen from 141,000 a year in 1995 to just 18,000 last year. Chancellor George Osborne said that too many large companies were leaving training to others and taking […]
September 19, 2016
By Joan Pettingill, 11 September 2015 Summary To what extent should the H.R team influence an investigating officer’s report? This was the key consideration in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case of Ramphal v Department of Transport reported earlier this week. The EAT found in this case that H.R had overstepped the mark of […]
September 19, 2016
Bridget Tokhai, 13 August 2015 But other dispute resolution methods are viewed as viable alternatives. This a momentous time of change in employment law. Some practitioners argue that the introduction of tribunal fees (by the Ministry of Justice), the requirement for claimants to register for Acas early conciliation and the 2013 tribunal rule changes […]
September 19, 2016
Sarah Ozanne, 18 August 2015 Policies, procedures and training could feature in supply chain audits. From October, the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (section 54) will require some commercial organisations to publish an annual anti-slavery and human trafficking statement. Businesses may need to carry out significant auditing of their global supply chains to fulfil this […]
September 19, 2016
A new national ‘living wage’ of more than £9 an hour will be introduced by 2020 for working people aged 25 and over to move Britain to a “higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare economy”. From April 2016, a new national living wage of £7.20 an hour for the over 25s will be introduced. […]
September 19, 2016
Back in the good old days holiday pay was calculated as basic salary divided by the 260 working days there are in a year i.e. £25,000 / 260 = £96.15 per day. In 2014 though, the law was changed to reflect a European Court judgment that no-one should be disadvantaged by taking holiday. Put simply […]
September 19, 2016
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