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Statutory Concessions
Adoption Bill
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012At the start of the year, we reported on Valerie Vaz’s proposed the Adoption (Leave, Pay and Allowance Arrangements) Bill that was added to the list of Bills before Parliament. Under the ’10 minute rule’, this Bill sought to equalise the rights to pay and leave with those that exist for maternity cases. The first [...]
Unpaid Parental Leave Increase Delayed
Saturday, February 18th, 2012The term “parental leave”, as currently used in employment legislation, refers to a period of up to four weeks’ unpaid leave in a year that may be taken by both natural and adoptive parents, but limited to: 13 weeks in the period up to a child’s fifth birthday, or, in the case of a disabled [...]
Extra Statutory Concessions to Go
Friday, December 16th, 2011R v HM Commissioners of Inland Revenue ex p Wilkinson was a House of Lords decision in 2005 that has become known as ‘the Wilkinson case’. In short, the case concerned the powers that HMRC have in establishing Extra-Statutory Concessions (ESCs). ESCs have been around for many decades and are described by HMRC as ‘a [...]
