Employment Agency Standards (EAS) is responsible for the enforcement of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (‘Conduct Regs’), and has reported an increase in complaints. Are you compliant with key elements of the regulations, and how would your business fair if inspected?
Victoria Atkins, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, issued a written ministerial statement yesterday announcing a consultation on policy options to regulate umbrella companies and to tackle non-compliance in the market. This is amongst other objectives to ‘simplify’ and ‘modernise’ the tax system, with the intention to make the system fairer for taxpayers, work better for traders and challenge non-compliance.
April 2023 will see the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage increasing, so if you are supplying workers and have issued a Key Information Document, you should be asking whether the pay rate referred to in it remains correct.
The debate regarding holiday pay continues as a consultation is launched with regard to the calculation of holiday entitlement for workers with irregular hours and pay.
