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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 …
UK: New publications - EHRC pregnancy/maternity research and toolkit, Acas equality guides
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published new research on the prevalence of pregnancy and maternity discrimination, alongside a practical …
UK: Summer consultations - minimum wage, posted workers, apprenticeships, tribunal fees
The Low Pay Commission is consulting until 25 September seeking views on the government’s proposed changes to the national minimum wage and the …
UK: Trade unions - draft bill and consultations
The Trade Union Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech has now been published, revealing further details of the government’s proposals. In addition to the …
UK: Consultation on gender pay reporting requirements
The Government Equalities Office has published an initial consultation paper on the proposal to require companies to publish pay information to show …
UK: Discrimination arising from disability - ‘unfavourable treatment’ test does not require comparison
The EAT has overturned a tribunal ruling that it was unlawful disability-related discrimination for an ill health early retirement pension to be based on …
UK: Anti-suit injunctions - Court of Appeal rules that EU jurisdiction rules should prevail over US exclusive jurisdiction clause
The Court of Appeal has overturned a controversial High Court ruling (summarised in our blog post here) concerning the enforcement of non-EU exclusive …
UK: Indirect discrimination - those who suffer alongside a disadvantaged group may bring claims
The ECJ has ruled that the EU concept of indirect discrimination permits claims to be brought by individuals who are not actually part of the protected …
UK: Summer Budget 2015 - points for employers
The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday handed down his second Budget of 2015, summarised in our HSF tax briefing here. Points of interest from …
UK: Employers must permit carry-over of statutory holiday for 18 months where unused due to sickness
Employees unable or unwilling to take their 4 weeks' EU-derived statutory holiday because of sickness absence continuing to the end of the leave year can …
UK: TUPE: employee suspended by contractor following client request for removal may still be assigned to contract
Businesses that outsource services may wish to retain the right to oblige a service-provider to remove a particular employee from working on that …
UK: Salary: default daily accrual rate of 1/365 unless overridden by contractual terms
The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employee's salary accrues day to day pursuant to the Apportionment Act 1870, but the rate at which it accrues will …
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