Our Employment & Immigration team brings its monthly review of new legislation, guidance and case law. News This months newsletter provides readers with new around: Section 1 of the Employment Relations Act 2023 Statutory…
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Our Employment & HR team brings the October review of new legislation, guidance and case law. News This months newsletter provides readers with new around: Annual leave and holiday pay Long-term sickness statistics Neonatal…
Our Employment & HR team brings June’s review of new legislation, guidance and case law. News: The annual changes to the national minimum and living wage took effect from 1 April 2023 as follows:…
Our Employment & HR team brings its monthly review of new legislation, guidance and case law. News: The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 amend…
Our Employment & HR team brings its monthly review of new legislation, guidance and case law. News The UK Government has confirmed that it has no plans to devolve employment law to Scotland. In…
Our Employment & HR team brings its monthly review of new legislation, guidance and case law. Commentary Dismissal fair despite lack of disciplinary policy The EAT case of Tijani v House of…
On 8 December, the Government updated its guidance on mandatory vaccination and temporary medical exemptions for care home staff. The self-certified temporary exemption will now expire on 31 March 2022 instead of 23 December…
Care workers will soon be added to the Shortage Occupation List, which means they will be eligible for sponsorship and the Health and Care Visa. This is a response to the urgent recommendations from…
The Government has announced plans to revoke the legislation making mandatory vaccination a condition of deployment in care homes, the wider social care sector, and the NHS. The decision has clearly already been made…
Towards the end of last year Marks & Spencer were the latest retail chain to introduce optional preferred pronouns on their staff badges, and, as announced on LinkedIn, the retailer is “encouraging as many…
Over recent years, we have seen growing trends of older workers choosing to retire later for different reasons – with money being a motivator for many, there is the added issue that with longer…
IKEA, Next and Ocado have all recently announced that they will reduce the sick pay entitlement for some unvaccinated staff who are required to self-isolate after close contact with someone infected with Covid-19. These…