Acas highlight that establishing the facts around an incident at work will often rely on witnesses giving statements about what has happened.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 18 December 2015
The Government have laid the draft National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2016 before Parliament which will implement the National Living Wage (NLW) from 1 April 2016.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 18 December 2015
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have published the tribunal quarterly statistics for the period July to September 2015
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 18 December 2015
In Griffiths v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, following a 66-day absence from work, 62 of which were due to an illness arising out of Griffiths’ disability, she was given a formal written improvement warning.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 18 December 2015
A new CIPD policy report, ‘Zero-hours and short-hours contracts in the UK: employer and employee perspectives’, suggests that, on average, zero-hours contract(ZHC) employees experience similar levels of job satisfaction, work-life balance and personal well-being to permanent employees.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 10 December 2015
The Government Equalities Office has published guidance for employers on recruiting and retaining transgender employees.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 10 December 2015
CIPD People Management have reported that MPs have made fresh calls to scrap employment tribunal fees as they argue that the regime has “undermined employee rights and encouraged rogue employers to flout the law”.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 10 December 2015
The Department for Work and Pensions have published a list of the proposed benefit and pension rates for 2016 to 2017.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 10 December 2015
Acas has launched a new guide designed to help employers and managers identify, tackle and prevent disability discrimination in the workplace.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 10 December 2015
Stonewall has released new research by YouGov involving 2,008 adults showing that in the past year 19% of those surveyed admitted to making offensive remarks about lesbian, gay, bi and trans people (LGBT) people and 30% had heard offensive comments, or language like ‘poof’ or ‘dyke’.
Article by: Viola Lloyd | Published: 7 December 2015