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  • 07 February 2020
  • Employment

Holiday Pay – what are the rules?

The calculation of holiday pay is a notoriously complicated (and ever changing) topic. There are a number of key cases that have, over the past decade, set out what should and should not be included when calculating a worker’s holiday pay.

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  • 07 February 2020
  • Employment

Coronavirus – what should employers do?

The first cases of the Coronavirus have been confirmed in the UK, so what should employers in the UK consider?
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  • 04 February 2020
  • Employment

Manchester’s Good Employment Charter

Last week, over 60 businesses in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority volunteered to refrain from using zero-hours contracts by signing up to the Good Employment Charter.
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  • 30 January 2020
  • Employment

Sky Engineer Not Following Safety Procedure Was Discriminated Against

The Claimant was a Field Engineer who was suspended for breaching his employer’s Health and Safety policy by failing to take safety precautions.

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  • 29 January 2020
  • Employment

Changes to the Agency Worker Regulations – the end of the Swedish Derogation!

As of 6th April 2020, the rules relating to agency workers will change, something which may prove costly to businesses presently using agency workers, and which requires action to ensure businesses are compliant with the new law.

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  • 28 January 2020
  • Employment

Reduced percentage for requesting an information and consultation agreement in the workplace

In 2005, The European Parliament and Council Directive 2002/14/EC was transposed into UK law, setting out a framework for implementing information and consultation agreements with employees if validly requested (the ICE Regulations).

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  • 27 January 2020
  • Employment

Subject Access Request Compliance Update

Despite the consultation period for their draft Right of Access Guidance remaining open until the 12th February, the Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) has amended its published guidance on the timescales for Data Subject Access Request (“DSAR”) compliance.

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  • 24 January 2020
  • Employment

Paid Parental Bereavement Leave

Following our previous blog on the consultation for parental bereavement leave, yesterday the Government laid down the new regulations before Parliament which will come into force on 6 April 2020.
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  • 22 January 2020
  • Employment

Nordics exempt from EU’s new statutory minimum wage

The past month has seen heated debate between certain Nordic countries and the EU, over the EU’s plans to implement a statutory minimum wage framework applicable across all member states.
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