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Employment Law Changes 2013/14
April 2013 Legal aid is withdrawn for many employment claims by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. The current 90-day minimum consultation period for large scale redundancies (over 100 employees) is reduced to 45 days – see Payroll Help 02 January 2013 Summer 2013 Employment Tribunal penalties introduced at the same [...]
Employment Law Reforms – Overview
On 14 September 2012, Business Secretary Vince Cable, from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), announced a package of reforms designed to ‘simplify and speed up the process of ending the employment relationship when it breaks down’. These reforms are for the benefit of both the employee and employer and are an attempt [...]
Autumn Statement 2011 (2) – Employment Law
We are repeating this section which are all employment-law related, though, at the same time, payroll-related. The Autumn Statement confirmed: Qualifying period for unfair dismissal to increase from one to two years from April 2012 All potential claims to the Employment Appeals Tribunal will have to be lodged through ACAS first A Rapid Resolution scheme [...]
Questions from our Forum 20/06/11
Each week we receive a number of payroll questions on our forum, and here are this week’s batch. Can you help with any answers? Expenses reimbursed for cancelled holiday flight ticket My client has recently reimbursed an employee for an EasyJet ticket [£185] which the employee could not take up, as the employer required him [...]
Questions From our Forum 17/03/11
Each week we receive a number of payroll questions on our forum, and here are this week’s batch. Can you help with any answers? Holiday underpayment The question I was asked and am asking you is “am I liable to pay them the extra that they were entitled to from 1st April 2009?” More… Further [...]
Pay and benefits for Reservists, your first TUPE and holiday entitlements
A welcome quiet week with no specific new items to write about. But I’m sure you have no illusions about 2011 being a quiet year! We have included the second of two articles about reservists this week, this time looking at the implications for employers of mobilisation. A correspondent on the Forum is involved with [...]

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