Workplace pensions law has changed and every employer with workers in the UK will be required to help more of their workers save for their retirement. The new rules apply to more and more companies each month and it is important for employers to be aware when their staging date is and begin to put […]
April and October are traditionally the times when employment law changes occur in the UK. However April 2013 saw minimal change but more significant change is scheduled for the summer. April did see the annual increase in statutory payments, with Statutory Sick Pay rising from £85.85 per week to £86.70 and Statutory Maternity, Paternity and […]
Not for the first time a recruitment professional is sitting on the other side of the work-seeking process and undertaking “the world’s toughest job interview” with Lord Alan Sugar. Natalie Panayi, a 30 year old Recruitment Manager from Rickmansworth can be seen alongside fifteen other candidates in the first episode of BBC1’s The Apprentice TV […]
Google has been fined 145,000 euros (£125,000) for “one of the biggest known data protection violations in history”. It follows investigations launched a year ago by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK and authorities across Europe into Google’s privacy policy which did not provide users with the right to opt out of their […]
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published guidance on how the forthcoming amendment to the IR35 legislation will be implemented, in respect of ‘office holders’. Legal experts, Lawspeed, have argued that the HMRC definition “a position which has an existence independent of the person who holds it and may be filled by successive holders” is […]
As many Employment Agencies (“EA”) and Employment Business (“EB”) are aware, individuals operating through a company can “opt out” of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (“Regulations”) by signing a suitable notice. This has various positives for the agency, not the least that the limitations in the Regulations on transfer fee […]
The Department for Education has embarked upon a campaign to remind agencies providing staff to schools of their obligations to check the right to work in the UK under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (IANA). So what are the rules? Under the IANA it is illegal to employ someone who does not have […]
Gagging orders have been in the news throughout 2013 as the Coalition government has sought to limit their use by councils and the NHS, who wish to prevent ‘whistle-blowing’ by former employees. The term “Gagging orders” is somewhat sensationalist but as an employer what can you do if you wish to protect your business and […]
The government has announced that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for adults is to increase by 12 pence an hour to £6.31, for workers aged 21 and over, in October 2013. At the same time, the NMW for 18 to 20 year olds will go up 5p an hour to £5.03 and the apprentice minimum […]
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. That was the view of an agency director at a recent seminar examining the government’s current Consultation into the agency regulatory framework. It is a view echoed by numerous others across the recruitment industry as there seems to be no urgent need or reason to make big changes […]
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