Uber drivers – Supreme Court rules they are workers
More details from the Uber drivers case ……Updated February 2021, after the Supreme Court’s decision. At the end of October…
More details from the Uber drivers case ……Updated February 2021, after the Supreme Court’s decision. At the end of October…
According to a report in the Guardian on the 6th February 2021, thousands of woman over State Pension Age may…
Gig economy workers gain the same Health and Safety protection as employees. In November 2020, The Independent Workers’ Union of…
As part of the Withdrawal Agreement, agreed with the EU in January 2020, EU employment law continues to apply to…
Statutory Leave Pay Rates from 4th April 2021 – The Government recently announced the proposed annual increases to Statutory Leave…
(updated February 2021) All employers have a legal obligation to check that all their staff have a legal right to…
If you work abroad, you may now be able to claim unfair dismissal in the UK if you’re dismissed. Here…
From 1 January 2021, the freedom of people to move between the UK and EU countries will end and the…
The #10000BlackInterns initiative is designed to help transform the horizons and prospects of young Black people in the United Kingdom.…
People Management reported, on 6th October, that veterans who have served in the armed forces for a least one year…
(Updated October 2020). If an employee or ex-employee has a potential Employment Tribunal claim, from May 2014 they are required…
Menopause and work. Global HR Lawyers lus Laboris have produced this excellent guide for Employers about the menopause and work.…
Gender non-binary and gender fluid people are covered by the ‘protected characteristic’ of gender reassignment under the Equality Act 2010.…
(Updated February 2020) The government has opened the Kickstart Scheme, which makes funding available for employers in England, Scotland and…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in September 2015 that travel time counts as working time. This applies when…
We take a look what defines a lone worker, what businesses should do when employing lone workers, and your legal…
In August 2020, the Government announced that Disabled people can now benefit from financial support to work from home, or…
Apprenticeship schemes are often in the news (and not always for the right reasons), so we’ve had a look at…
In 2018, the Advocate General of the ECJ said that foster parents were not workers and therefore do not have…
TV companies agree guidelines that should allow programme making to resume (updated 8th June 2020) TV companies have agreed guidelines…
The Government announced on 30th March 2020 that there would be changes to Right to Work in the UK checks,…
The Government announced, on 27th March 2020, that workers who have not taken all of their statutory annual leave entitlement…
The Film and TV Charity offer financial support and are concerned about the potential impact of coronavirus on people working…
Acas has published advice for Employers on how to deal with the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The advice is worth…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission produced new guidance for Employers, in January 2020, on Sexual Harassment and Harassment at…
Here’s a nice article about the way you manage your staff – which asks if you are micro-managing your staff?…
Calculating Holiday entitlement for permanent workers with irregular hours Calculating holiday pay for full-time and part-time workers is pretty straight…
Calculating Holiday Pay – Currently the ‘reference’ period in the Working Time Regulations (1998) that is used to calculate holiday…
Increases to the The National Living and National Minimum Wage The minimum wage is a legal right that covers almost…
In 2016 the Government introduced a compulsory National Living Wage, however there is another voluntary Real Living Wage – we…
The new Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay Act 2018 (also known as Jack’s Law) will become law on 6th April…
Significant changes are being made from 6th April 2020 and all Employers will need to follow these new laws about…
Change in 2020 May Day bank holiday date In order to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020,…
We’ve just read this, from Contractor UK, but can find no other confirmation yet – if it’s true that will…
Presented by the UK’s leading expert on working with children, Alison Cresswell, GET THE KNOWLEDGE provides the essential knowledge you…
From 1st October 2011, Agency Workers in Great Britain (Northern Ireland will publish their own separate regulations) will have the…
The Stalking Protection Act 2019, which came into force in March 2019, is designed to tackle ‘stranger stalking’ (statistics says…
Currently, all employees, who are engaged for one month or more, are legally entitled to a Written Statement, which they…
New – Council Tax Attachment of Earnings Orders (CTAEO) From 8th July 2019, the HMRC are leading a trial with…
Is it a United Kingdom? We thought we’d look in detail at the main differences in Employment Law between England,…
The European Union adopted the new ‘Whistleblower Directive’ in October 2019. EU member states will have 2 years to implement…
What records do employers need to keep for the Working Time Regulations? Until May 2019, Employers in the UK needed…
The Agency Workers Regulations come into force on 1st October 2011 to bolster the rights of so-called "vulnerable" agency workers…
(Updated July 2019) In a not-unexpected move on 29th October 2018, the Chancellor announced that all medium and large sized…
Unpaid work trials are common in some sectors where there is high turnover of staff (e.g. hospitality, retail) as they…
Currently, an Employer is required to give an employee a Written Statement of their key terms and conditions within the…
In October 2018, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court (this has been a long running…
With the ongoing shift towards employers using freelancers / contractors instead of employing PAYE workers and employees in the current…
At the end of November 2018 the Government launched a voluntary framework for Employers to record their disabled work-force, in…
Theresa May is planning measures to boost workers’ rights, including ending of the Swedish derogation model (that allows employers, in certain…
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