Legislation Impacting Holiday Pay & Other Miscellaneous Provisions
The Government, last week, published draft legislation to implement changes to holiday rights under the Working Time Regulations (“WTR”). The draft Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 (“Regulations”) still need to complete the final stage of the legislative process but significant changes are not envisaged. Providing there are no hiccups, the Regulations should […]
Home Working Update
Approximately, 4 years ago, back in 2019, the country was periodically put in ‘lockdown’ as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Employers reacted hastily, putting arrangements in place with employees being required to work from home, where this was possible. When the lockdown ended, some employees gradually returned to the workplace. However, a lot of […]
The Evolving Virus & Its Impact
Since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic in 2019, the virus has continued to mutate and there is growing concern, amongst scientists, regarding the latest strain of the virus commonly known as ‘Eris’. Latest data from the UK Health Security Agency, shows around 11 people per 100k of the population tested positive for this […]
Civil Penalties Increasing for Employing Illegal Employees
All UK employers are required to prevent illegal working by conducting right to work checks to ensure that their employees have the right to work in the UK. If an employer is found to have employed an illegal employee and has not conducted valid right to work checks, they could face a civil penalty as […]
The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023
As we told you in a previous Update [2022/31] The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill was introduced on 15th June 2022 by Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi as a Private Member’s Bill. It has now passed through parliament and The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 currently awaits Royal Assent. The Bill does make a number […]
The Importance of Staff Wellbeing
For those of us lucky enough to have a job – love it or loath it – that job plays a crucial part in our lives. With travelling time (for those not working from home), it probably takes up around half of our daily waking hours. Work provides us with a source of income; but […]
More Employment Law Changes on the Horizon
New rights derived from three Government backed cross party bills were given Royal Assent towards the end of last month. Whilst Royal Assent has been given, they are not law yet. The Government have said they will lay down secondary legislation in due course to implement these new entitlements. The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and […]
Employment Law Changes on the Horizon
The Government have made some recent announcements with regard to changes to Employment Law in the future. We provide a brief summary below: TIPS AND SERVICE CHARGES The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 requires employers to ensure all tips and service charges are allocated fairly between its workers (not just employees). ‘Fairly’ has not been defined, so […]
Dealing With Mental Health Within The Workplace
Sadly, mental health problems are on the increase in society and this inevitably impacts on the workplace. Mental health is now the leading cause of sickness absence. So what is the cause of Mental Health? There are multiple factors that can contribute to someone being diagnosed with a mental health problem, such as poverty, genetics, […]
Health Assessments for Night Workers
Information Update: 10/2023 • Issue Date: 09/05/2023 By way of general reminder, employers are required by law to offer free health assessments to night workers before they start working at night and on a regular basis thereafter. The obligation is for the employer to offer a free health assessment: the worker is not obliged to […]
