19 November 2015
From next April 2016, the National living wage will rise to £7.20 and then to £9.00 an hour by 2020. Whilst reportedly this will result in a happy boost to…
11 November 2015
As thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh, employers who are affected must decide whether or not to continue paying them pending their return to…
8 October 2015
We were delighted to welcome clients and guests to our Breakfast Seminar at Hart’s Restaurant this morning where, as ever, the food was delicious. Our seminar highlighted recent and forthcoming…
17 September 2015
Under the Working Time Regulations 1998 workers are entitled to be paid during statutory annual leave at the rate of “a week’s pay” for each week of…
14 September 2015
Living Wage George Osborne’s last budget heralded a ‘new’ living wage of £9 per hour by 2020, but what does this actually mean for businesses. While, at this time, we…
11 September 2015
Working Time for Mobile Workers – New Judgment from Court of justice of the European Union. In a fairly surprising judgment the CJEU has decided that, for mobile workers, travelling…
11 August 2015
THE RIGHT TO CARRY FORWARD PAID HOLIDAY FOR SICK EMPLOYEES IS CLARIFIED The Working Time Directive provides that member states must ensure that every worker is entitled to paid annual…
23 June 2015
The EAT has recently held that cutting off email access to an employee who was off work for reasons of ill health was a provision, criterion or practice…
18 June 2015
There have been two contrasting Employment Tribunal decisions recently regarding employees using their mobile phones whilst driving. In both cases the employees were dismissed for that reason citing the acts…
17 June 2015
Central London Employment Tribunal has ordered YOO Limited to pay £250,000 in damages to an employee after ruling that she was unfairly constructively dismissed and subjected to detrimental treatment because of pregnancy…
2 June 2015
Legislation that came into force almost three years ago, on 30 June 2012, requires all employers in the UK to automatically enrol all eligible workers into a pension scheme. …
5 May 2015
Zero Hours or Flexible Hours contracts? Zero hours contracts have attracted a lot of media attention in the last 12 months. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has suggested…
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