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Supreme Court ends British Gas holiday pay challenge

8 March 2017

7 March 2017

Increases to tribunal awards from 6 April 2017

The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2017 increases the limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals, and other amounts payable under employment legislation,...

6 March 2017

Acas publishes new guidance to help understand gig economy working and employment status rights

Acas has launched new and updated guidance to help employers and workers understand the many different types of employment arrangements that exist in the modern...

2 March 2017

City workers at Lloyd’s of London banned from daytime drinking

Workers at Lloyd's of London have been banned from drinking during the day after around half of disciplinary cases were found to relate to alcohol....

1 March 2017

Large employers encouraged to register for online apprenticeship support service

The Government are encouraging large employers to register for an online apprenticeship support service before the launch of the apprenticeship levy on 6 April 2017....

28 February 2017

359 employers named and shamed for failing to pay NLW and NMW

359 employers have been named and shamed in the largest ever list of national minimum wage and national living wage offenders published by the Government....

27 February 2017

Refusal of career break was direct discrimination associated with son’s disability

An ET finds that an employer’s refusal to grant an employee a career break to enable her to check and monitor her son’s severe autism...

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Brothers trafficking Polish workers sentenced to six years in prison for modern slavery

24 February 2017

23 February 2017

Regulations bring new NMW hourly rates into force on 1 April

The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2017 bring new national living wage and national minimum wage hourly rates into force from 1 April 2017....

22 February 2017

Employment tribunal judgments go online

HM Courts and Tribunals Service have launched an online service giving stakeholders and users access to employment tribunal judgments in England, Wales and Scotland....

21 February 2017

ET orders reinstatement with 10 years back pay totalling £300,000

A tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of a fingerprint officer to her previous job with the Scottish Police Authority who will now have to pay...

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Plumber was a worker and not an independent contractor.

20 February 2017

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