The long awaited guidance to the Agency Workers Regulations is to be published in draft form today, and the final guidance is expected to be published early in May. Ravi Murphy, a Director of Lawspeed, in announcing a series of seminars to be held on the subject, said , “Many organisations have been waiting for […]
The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has announced that it will be holding a free public meeting and presentation with key representatives of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) at the BIS Conference Centre on 12th April 2011 to discuss the proposed Agency Workers Regulations guidance. Open to all recruitment businesses and hirers […]
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has released its review of small business taxation including IR35. Its proposals are aimed at aiding small businesses by reducing the complexity and uncertainty of the tax system. The report’s proposals include the merging of Income Tax with National Insurance, and three options for improvement to IR35. IR35, long […]
The government recently announced that it was delaying for a second time the implementation of the Bribery Act 2010 which was originally intended for October 2010, then pushed back to April 2011. It has now been delayed again as the Ministry of Justice acknowledges that it has passed its own January deadline for publication of […]
Following our article in January’s AZ newsletter, the draft regulations to abolish the default retirement age of 65 have been laid before parliament. The Regulations will come into force on 6 April 2011. The last ‘notice of intended retirement’ can be given up until 5 April 2011* for employee’s who have attained or will attain […]
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force in 2008 and introduced a new offence of corporate manslaughter where the gross negligence of a company’s senior management results in death. On 15 February 2011, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings was found guilty of corporate manslaughter, this being the first conviction under the Act. This […]
The government has announced that it will not be proceeding with plans to extend the right for employees to ask for time off for training to all employers in April 2011 as planned. The right to ask for time off for training applies to employees with 26 weeks continuous service. This right is similar to […]
The Freedoms Bill has had its first reading in parliament. The Bill has a wide range covering issues relating to fingerprinting, DNA, CCTV and even wheel clamping. However, it also proposes a review of the current criminal records and vetting and barring regime, in order to “scale it back to common sense levels”. The changes […]
In a recent judgement of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) it was decided that a claimant who accepted a settlement offer on the morning before the case was due to start, but had rejected the exact same settlement offer some months earlier, had acted unreasonably. The EAT was therefore justified in awarding costs to the […]
An employer has paid £5,000 in compensation and £8,000 court costs to a former employee after he paraded the employee through the streets with a sign around his neck declaring he was a thief. The employee had admitted he had stolen money from his employer by writing a company cheque to himself for £845 and […]
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