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Bolt drivers are workers, says Employment Tribunal
21 November 2024An Employment Tribunal has found that Bolt drivers are ‘workers’ entitled to paid holidays and minimum wage.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: just getting started for family rights?
21 November 2024The Employment Rights Bill introduced some changes to family rights, including a new right to bereavement leave and plans to strengthen protections for pregnant women and new parents returning to work. But is the government just getting started?
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How risky is your festive party?
21 November 2024This is the first year when the new duty to prevent sexual harassment will be in force over the festive season. As employers make plans to celebrate with their workforces, how do sexual harassment risk assessments apply to workplace parties?
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The pay gap reporting challenge: can Labour’s proposals work? Tom Heys comments for Raconteur
20 November 2024The Labour government has announced that they intend to make it compulsory for all larger companies to publish information on their ethnicity and disability pay gaps.
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Navigating the job market with AI: tools, benefits and challenges
15 November 2024AI is revolutionising the recruitment lifecycle, enhancing how organisations attract, assess, and select candidates. It is also being used beyond recruitment to support workplace decisions after recruitment. We review how it’s being used, the future direction of AI-driven employment decisions and the consequential challenges for employers.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: will TUPE be transformed?
14 November 2024Labour promised to strengthen the rights and protections for workers transferred under TUPE. Has the Bill taken any meaningful strides at delivering on this?
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No requirement for “general workforce consultation” in small-scale redundancies
12 November 2024In a helpful decision for employers, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that employers do not have to carry out “general workforce consultation” for individual redundancy dismissals to be fair.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: tougher stance on workplace harassment
11 November 2024The Employment Rights Bill makes employers liable if staff are harassed by third parties, requires employers to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, and strengthens whistleblowing protection on this topic. We explain what these changes mean in practice and why they call for even greater efforts to protect staff from workplace harassment.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: shifting the power for shift workers
07 November 2024The Employment Rights Bill aims to increase stability and predictability for shift workers by introducing a right to reasonable notice of shifts and a payment for cancelled or changed shifts.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: will flexible working really be the “default”?
07 November 2024Labour pledged to make the workplace fairer and more family-friendly by making flexible working the default. We explore whether this has been achieved by the Employment Rights Bill.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: 'fire and rehire'
06 November 2024The Labour government’s new Employment Rights Bill, introduced in October 2024, seeks to severely restrict the controversial practice of ‘fire and rehire’. But what will this mean for employers in practice? We consider the issues in this article.
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Winners and losers among internationally mobile employees
31 October 2024The Chancellor has announced changes to the income tax reliefs available to employees who carry out some or all of their duties overseas. While those changes will simplify the rules, employers and employees will need to consider the implications of the changes carefully as there will be winners and losers.
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End clients to take responsibility for umbrella company tax compliance
31 October 2024Umbrella companies won't have you covered from April 2026 - at least as regards employment taxes. The Chancellor has plans for a crackdown on non-compliance in umbrella companies which would make end clients and agencies responsible for PAYE and NICs compliance.
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Tribunal finds legitimate purposes for direct offers to union members
30 October 2024An Employment Tribunal decision has provided helpful guidance for employers in determining whether making direct offers to their employees would be unlawful for the purpose of bypassing collective bargaining.
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Hong Kong: Unlocking Love: Could Tinder Leave Be the Key to Happier Employees in Hong Kong?
30 October 2024Two companies in Asia, Gushcloud International and Whiteline Group, are reportedly offering their employees a new type of benefit - ‘Tinder Leave’. This article explores what Tinder Leave is and whether it may benefit employees if employers introduced it in Hong Kong.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: Fair Work Agency
30 October 2024The Employment Rights Bill creates a new state enforcement agency for specific employment rights, including some major new enforcement powers. What is covered, and what will these new powers mean in practice? We explain what we know so far.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: will guaranteed hours guarantee flexibility for both parties?
24 October 2024The Employment Rights Bill addresses Labour’s commitment to ending “one sided flexibility” with a new requirement for employers to offer qualifying workers “guaranteed hours”. We look at what the Bill sets out, what’s missing and what you need to do.
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Employment Rights Bill unpacked: substantial changes to collective redundancies
24 October 2024Laws requiring employers to go through collective consultation and notify the government before making redundancies are in for a major shake-up, under the government’s plans. Our article looks at what’s changing and why it will have such a substantial impact.
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Northern Ireland ‘Good Jobs’: what did our stakeholders say and what impact will the Employment Rights Bill have?
24 October 2024The Labour government has now published its long-awaited Employment Rights Bill, which addresses many key issues raised under the recent ‘Good Jobs’ consultation in Northern Ireland. We recently reached out to stakeholders to share their views on some of these key proposals and review these results in light of changes announced in Great Britain and consider what is next For the 'Good Jobs' legislation.
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Managing retirement and mandatory retirement ages in Ireland
23 October 2024A decision handed down by the Irish Supreme Court over the summer has been widely welcomed by employers and provides much needed clarity on whether the setting of a blanket contractual mandatory retirement age can be objectively justified.