The Equality and Human Rights Commission (“EHRC”) is consulting on ways to measure and report on the gender pay gap in private and voluntary sectors on a voluntary basis – new powers to compel reporting from 2013 appear in the Equality Bill.
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Small increases to the national minimum wage will take effect from 1 October 2009. The Government has adopted the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations that: the adults rate, for workers aged 22 or over, should rise from £5.73 to £5.80 per hour; the development rate, for workers aged between 18 and 21, should rise from £4.77 […]
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The Government has announced plans to consult on the regulation of “damages-based contingency fees” (“DBCFs”) in employment tribunals. A DBCF is a type of “no-win, no-fee” agreement which allows a claimant’s legal representative to receive a percentage of the total damages award if the claimant’s case is successful. As employment tribunals have very limited powers […]
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Regulation 8 of the Transfer (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”) provides that if an insolvency is with a view to the liquidation of the assets of the transferor then its provisions do not apply. […]
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Effective 1 April 2009 the statutory entitlement to paid holiday will increase to 5.6 weeks, inclusive of bank holidays. For an employee working a 5 day week in England where there are 8 bank holidays per year this means that they will be entitled to a total 4 weeks plus bank holidays. Provided an employee […]
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On 6 April 2010, regulations came into force granting new rights to additional paternity leave and pay for parents with children due on or after 3 April 2011. The new rights will also apply to adoptive parents who have received notice of an adoption ‘matching’ on or after this date […]
Unlike most other types of claims in the employment tribunals, claimants in discrimination cases can claim interest on losses incurred up to the date of judgment. The interest accrues on a daily basis and is simple, not compounded. The applicable interest rate in England and Wales is set by the Lord Chancellor. The interest rate […]
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Small increases to the national minimum wage took effect from 1 October 2009 […]
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Earlier in 2009 the European Court of Justice ruled that workers who were on long-term sick leave were entitled to continue accruing annual holiday even if they had exhausted all entitlement to paid sick leave […]
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The UK Government has published the Equality Bill which would reverse the problematic House of Lords’ judgment in London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm (“Malcolm”) […]
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