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31 January 2012
Compensation & Benefits: Childcare vouchers to loose tax and National Insurance Contribution exemptions
Employers should take advantage of the scheme now to secure the tax and NIC advantages to 2015 Controversial proposals from the government will mean that employees joining childcare voucher schemes…
31 January 2012
Employment: New regulations to implement the Temporary Agency Workers Directive
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. The Regulations are due to…
31 January 2012
Compensation & Benefits: ABI – New Executive Remuneration Guidelines and “position paper”
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.…
31 January 2012
Employment: Using length of service criterion in redundancy selection
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. …
31 January 2012
Employment: Changes to rates from 1 October 2009
Increases to statutory redundancy payment and basic award for unfair dismissal The limit on the maximum amount of a week’s pay taken into account to calculate the amount of statutory…
31 January 2012
Employment: Compulsory retirement age for all civil servants to be scrapped by 2010
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…
31 January 2012
Compensation & Benefits: The post-Walker corporate governance environment
Governance needs to be brought “back to centre stage” but will not be achieved through “box-ticking conformity” So stated the final recommendations of the Walker report published in November 2009.…
31 January 2012
Compensation & Benefits: Prospectus Directive
Further changes published by the Council on 4 and 18 November and 11 December 2009 Story so far In September 2009, the EU Commission proposed amendments to the current Prospectus…
31 January 2012
Employment: Clarification of territorial scope of race and age discrimination legislation
Employees who work at least partly in the UK are entitled to rely on UK legislation to bring race and age discrimination claims. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has ruled…
31 January 2012
Compensation & Benefits: An extra bank holiday in 2012!
The government plans to create a one-time extra bank holiday on 5 June 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. In addition to the extra day of holiday, the…