The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (the “Act”), the main provisions of which come into force for businesses with 250 or more employees in April 2010, will give certain qualifying employees the right to request time off from work to train or study. […]
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Employers should take advantage of the scheme now to secure the tax and NIC advantages to 2015 […]
Following consultations in 2009, the regulations implementing the EU Temporary Agency Workers Directive, the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (the “Regulations”), have been laid before Parliament. […]
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On 15 December 2009, a new version of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Guidelines was published together with an accompanying position paper on how the Guidelines should be applied […]
Since the introduction of legislation outlawing age discrimination in 2006 employers have generally been advised that “last in first out” or other service-related criteria for redundancy selection are best avoided. However certain employers had binding redundancy selection processes, often negotiated with trade unions and often including length of service as one of a matrix of […]
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Increase to statutory redundancy payment and basic award for unfair dismissal […]
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Last October the UK government pledged to remove the compulsory retirement age for all junior civil servants. The Cabinet Secretary has now promised to do the same for senior civil servants, making the civil service “retirement free”. From April 2010 all civil servants who wish to continue working after 65 will be able to do […]
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Governance needs to be brought “back to centre stage” but will not be achieved through “box-ticking conformity” […]
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In September 2009, the EU Commission proposed amendments to the current Prospectus Directive which would have extended the current exemption under the Directive to cover employee share schemes of all companies, including those not admitted to trading on an European Economic Area (EEA) “regulated market”. […]
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Employees who work at least partly in the UK are entitled to rely on UK legislation to bring race and age discrimination claims. […]