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UK: Employment law changes in October
On 1 October 2015 the following changes came into force: New national minimum wage rates, the adult rate increasing from £6.50 to £6.70 an hour. …
UK: Discrimination arising from disability - disability need not be the main cause of unfavourable treatment if it is part of the cause or has a significant influence
A claim for "discrimination arising from disability" can be made where an employee is treated unfavourably because of something arising in …
UK: Discrimination - victimisation claim by individual 'associated' with those who have done a protected act
Employers should ensure managers do not treat individuals less favourably because allegations of discrimination have been made, whether by the …
UK: ECJ rules that travel to and from home may count as working time for peripatetic workers
The ECJ has followed the Advocate-General's opinion in Federacion de Servicios Privados v Tyco Integrated Security (reported in our blog here) that, for …
UK: HR advice on disciplinary matters should be limited
HR should ensure that, when advising managers investigating or deciding on disciplinary matters, their advice is limited to matters of law and procedure, …
UK: New legislative proposals and guidance on minimum/living wage, apprenticeships consultation, employee travel expenses, recruitment and induction
The government has announced plans to increase the penalties for failing to pay the national minimum wage and national living wage (being introduced in …
UK: Employers can face 'series of acts' detriment claims from fixed-term employees where treatment spans a number of discrete fixed-term contracts
Where a fixed-term or part-time employee is subjected to less favourable treatment in the form of a series of similar acts or failures, the time limit …
UK: Court of Appeal dismisses judicial review appeal challenging tribunal fees
The Court of Appeal has dismissed Unison's challenge to the employment tribunal fees regime. The Court ruled that the regime could not be viewed as …
UK: Employers may need to allow wider choice of companion in disciplinary process
It may be a breach of trust and confidence in some cases for an employer to deny an employee the right to be accompanied to a disciplinary investigation …
UK: Employees on long-term sick leave are not 'assigned' for TUPE transfer if absence is permanent
Case law has established that temporary absence from work, for example on sick leave or family-related leave, does not prevent an individual being …
UK: Employers can redeploy permanent employees to vacancies in priority to agency workers
Agency worker regulations provide that an agency worker has the right to be informed of any relevant vacancies in the hiring company, so as "to give that …
UK: Consultations on tax treatment of termination payments, IR35 and Sunday trading
The Summer Budget announced a number of forthcoming consultations which have now been published: The HMRC consultation on simplifying the tax and NICs …
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