April 2019 Employment Law changes

April 2019 Employment Law changes Organisations will need to abide by the latest set of national minimum wage rates for all pay periods beginning on, or after, 1 April. These new rates are as follows: AgeFrom 1 April 2018From…

Employment Law Update

Settled Status for EU workers As part of the government’s post-Brexit plans European workers currently living in the UK will be able to apply for settled status in 2019, allowing them to remain indefinitely following the end of the transition…

HR GDPR

HR GDPR We have updated our contracts of employment and template Employee Handbook to reflect the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation. Please let us know if need to update your documen…

EAT gives landmark judgement on shared parental pay

This month, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has handed down its judgement on a direct sex discrimination case involving shared parental pay. In other case law, the Supreme Court held there was an implied term in all contracts of employment…

November Budget

Philip Hammond delivered the first November Budget for 21 years on the 22 November 2017. Although expected to be a duller affair than normal, there were a number of employment initiatives outlined that organisations need to be aware of. The…

Immigration and Brexit: legal guide to managing a migrant workforce

Mindfulness in the workplace – taking a grassroots approach

One of the workplace wellbeing success stories of recent years has been the rise to prominence of mindfulness. A form of meditation that has moved well beyond its Buddhist origins, mindfulness is widely practised all over the world. Much…

Statutory rates

Statutory maternity pay (SMP): First six weeks – 90 per cent of employee’s average weekly earnings. From 3 April 2016: Remaining weeks - £139.58 or 90 per cent of employee’s weekly earnings if this is lower From 2 April 2017: Remaining…

National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage

1 Apr 2017 – National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage The following NLW and NMW hourly rates apply from 1 April 2017: Workers aged over 25 years (NLW): £7.50. Workers aged 21 to 24 years: £7.05. Workers aged 18 to 20 years:…

Budget

There were a number of measures of importance to employers in the budget, including a small change to the taxation of termination payments, following a government consultation last year. From April 2018, termination payments (for redundancy,…