Acas provide guidance on how to handle reluctant witnesses in investigations
Acas highlight that establishing the facts around an incident at work will often rely on witnesses giving statements about what has happened.
| Published: 18 December 2015
Government advises employers to prepare early for new National Living Wage
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.
| Published: 18 December 2015
Tribunal quarterly statistics published for July to September 2015
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have published the tribunal quarterly statistics for the period July to September 2015
| Published: 18 December 2015
Sickness absence trigger points subject to duty to make reasonable adjustments
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.
| Published: 18 December 2015
Zero-hours contract employees as happy as permanent, full-time employees
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.
| Published: 10 December 2015
Guidance for employers on recruiting and retaining transgender employees
The Government Equalities Office has published guidance for employers on recruiting and retaining transgender employees.
| Published: 10 December 2015
MPs renew calls to scrap ‘punitive’ employment tribunal fees
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”.
| Published: 10 December 2015
No increase to parental leave rights payments or SSP in 2016/17
The Department for Work and Pensions have published a list of the proposed benefit and pension rates for 2016 to 2017.
| Published: 10 December 2015
Acas publish new guide to help prevent disability discrimination in the workplace
Acas has launched a new guide designed to help employers and managers identify, tackle and prevent disability discrimination in the workplace.
| Published: 10 December 2015
Research reveals offensive comments are frequently made about LGBT people
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’.
| Published: 7 December 2015