Darren Beckinsale • Newsletters, Regulatory Updates • 10th Oct 2018 • 2 min read time Minimum wage and statutory payments to rise from April 2017 Statutory weekly payments for parents and sick pay will go up from April 2017, as shown below. The increase of 1% reflects the annual increase in the consumer price index in the year to September 2016. This is the first increase since April 2015. These payments didn’t change in April 2016 because the index fell […]
Darren Beckinsale • Newsletters, Risk Insights • 9th Mar 2017 • 3 min read time Tribunal decides redundancy was not because of TUPE transfer Employees may be transferred to another employer when a business changes hands, or when the business stops providing a service that’s then done by someone else. (For example, in-house catering is replaced by an external business providing catering services.) The new employer takes the transferring employees on the same terms and conditions as the old […]
Darren Beckinsale • Human Resources (HR) • 7th Mar 2017 • 2 min read time Unfair dismissals and re-employing If an employee is dismissed for misconduct but later cleared at an employment tribunal, the tribunal can – though rarely does – make an order for the employee to be re-employed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether doing so was feasible in a case where the employer said that trust and confidence had broken […]
