When analysing the reasons why Claimant’s decide not to proceed with their claim following ACAS EC there has been much speculation that this is because of the introduction of fees which are preventing access to justice. ACAS has carried out their own research into the reasons people provide as to their rationale as to why […]
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Non-payment of ET Awards
A new scheme for penalising employers who fail to pay tribunal awards or settlement sums came into force on 6 April 2016. Section 150 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 inserted the penalties into part 2A (sections 37A to 37Q) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996. The Department of Business, Innovation and […]
Gender Pay Reporting
The Government has published its draft regulations entitled The Equality Act (gender pay gap information) Regulations 2016 which are intended to come into force in October 2016. Consultation closed on 11 March 2016 on the draft regulations. The regulations are intended to implement the mandatory gender pay gap reporting duty under section 78 of the […]
Zero hours dismissals
The much talked about and long awaited protection against zero hours dismissals for workers is now in place. This is where employees are dismissed for not being exclusive to one contract. It is now unlawful to dismiss an employee on a zero hours contract if the principal reason is that he breached a contractual clause prohibiting […]
Agency Worker’s Rights to be informed about vacancies
The Employment Appeal Tribunal in the recent case of Coles -v- Ministry of Defence has held that Regulation 13 of the Agency Workers’ Regulations 2010 does not prevent the company giving preference for vacant posts to permanent employees in need of redeployment. Regulation 13 of the Agency Workers’ Regulations 2010 gives agency workers the right […]
Having your cake?
You may have read about the Northern Irish gay cake row which has been settled by the County court in Northern Ireland recently. A bakery was sued after it cancelled an order for a cake with an image and slogan “Support Gay Marriage” placed by a homosexual customer. The customer brought the case with the […]
Childcare responsibilities
Shared parental leave will be available for parents whose child is expected to be born on or after 5th April 2015 or placed for adoption on or after that date. BIS commissioned research into attitudes towards the changes and to assess the potential take up of shared parental leave. There were approximately 2000 respondents to the […]
Failure to provide employee liability information under TUPE
An employment tribunal has ordered a transferee to pay compensation of £65,500, representing £500 for each of 131 employees, to a transferor for failure to provide employee liability information in breach of regulation 11 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 in the case of Eville & Jones (UK) Ltd v Grants […]
Shared parental leave and pay
For babies due on or after 5th April 2015 or those who will be placed for adoption after that date there will be new rules around the leave so that parents can take the traditional maternity leave period between them. The mother must take the compulsory leave but after the initial 2weeks or 4 weeks […]
Automatic pension enrolment
This month’s business briefing is on the topic of auto-enrolment of pensions. It explains the obligations on employers when it comes to auto-enrolment. What is auto-enrolment? From a date after October 2012, businesses will be required to automatically enrol eligible “jobholders” in a pension scheme. A “jobholder” will include permanent, fixed-term and temporary […]