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Changes to collective redundancy provisions as Employment Rights Bill moves to the House of Lords
Adrian Fryer
The current legal position on collective redundancy is fairly clear:
Continue ReadingCompensation in discrimination cases should put employee back in the position they would’ve been in but for the discrimination
Adrian Fryer
Once an employee has been successful in a claim of discrimination, the attention turns to the question of remedy. Compensation can include
Continue ReadingWhere employer believes (in error) that employee has resigned the ‘dismissal’ might be fair for SOSR
Adrian Fryer
The employment relationship can generally come to an end in one of two ways: resignation by the employee or dismissal by the employer. But what happens when wires get crossed? Where the employer genuinely believes that the employee has resigned and acts on that resignation – but they haven’t actually resigned. This point was addressed by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the recent case of Korpysa v Impact Recruitment Services.
Continue ReadingNew statutory rates for 2025
Adrian Fryer
April marks the month each year where changes to statutory rates come into force. Most rate changes take effect from 6th April (to align with the start of the new tax year). National minimum wage changes take effect from 1st April.
Continue ReadingLate Easter ‘could land employers in hot water over staff holidays’
Sarah Collier
Employers are being warned they could land in hot water with staff over their annual holiday entitlement because Easter falls late this year.
Continue ReadingRate Updates 2025 – Employment Law
Alex Murray
Several significant changes in employment law rates are set to take effect in 2025. These updates will impact various aspects of employment, including wages, family-friendly payments, and statutory leave. Below is a detailed overview of the key changes.
Continue ReadingWhat is the injury to feelings award and how is it calculated?
Alex Murray
Where an employee is discriminated against by their employer in relation to a protected characteristic, they can bring a number of claims under the Equality Act 2010. The protected characteristics set out in this Act are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Continue ReadingEmployment Rights Bill: What’s Changing?
An Amendment Paper on the Employment Rights Bill was published at the end of November. Key proposed changes include the following proposals from the Government:
Continue ReadingGovernment announces new rates for family leave pay and statutory sick pay from 6th April 2025
The statutory rates of pay applicable to the various different types of family leave which can be taken, together with the amount payable as statutory sick pay, are updated on an annual basis. The new rates, which will apply from 6th April 2025, have now been published by the Government. The new rates are as follows:
Continue ReadingUplifts for failure to follow fire and rehire code of practice to apply to protective awards from January 2025
When the Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement came into force in July this year, a notable omission from the list of claims to which uplifts could be applied for non-compliance was protective awards.
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