CJEU rules that time spent travelling to and from work is ‘working time’ for...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has held that time spent by workers, who do not have a fixed or habitual place of work, on travelling each day between their homes and the premises of the...
View Article‘Fit For Work’ service is now fully operational
Employers in England and Wales are now able to refer their employees to ‘Fit for Work’, the government service set up to help working people on long-term sickness absence. The ‘Fit for Work’ service is...
View ArticleAcas publishes new employer guides on equality and diversity in the workplace
Acas has published three new guides which aim to help employers identify, tackle and prevent discrimination in the workplace. Each of the three guides has a different focus: 1. Equality and...
View ArticleWhat’s changing in employment law on 1 October 2015?
There are a number of changes coming into force on 1 October 2015, which employers and employees should be aware of. 1. Requirement for large employers to publish anti-slavery statement The Modern...
View ArticleCourt ruling highlights that HR advice should be limited in disciplinary...
In Ramphal v Department for Transport UKEAT/0352/14, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee was unfairly dismissed after an investigating officer’s report was too heavily influenced...
View ArticleAcas publishes new guides for recruiting new staff and inductions
Acas has published two new guides to help employers recruit and successfully integrate new staff. The recruitment guide (click here) highlights the essential documents that are needed when recruiting...
View ArticleGovernment targets care homes, cleaning firms and building sites in “crack...
In a interview with The Times, Immigration Minister James Brockenshire has declared a new Government approach to rogue employers who give work to illegal immigrants. He said “Experience tells us that...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland Court of Appeal ruling suggests regular voluntary overtime...
In Patterson v Castlereagh Borough Council [2015] NICA 47, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has held that there is no reason in principle why voluntary overtime should not be included in statutory...
View ArticleMore TUPE outsourcing issues: Jakowlew v Nestor Primecare Services Limited...
On 6 January 2015, we reported two significant cases relating to whether employees were assigned to an organised grouping of employees situated in Great Britain, which had its principal purpose of...
View ArticleEmployee ‘smelling of alcohol’ unfairly dismissed
In McElroy v Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust ET/3400622/2014, an employment tribunal has held that an employer was wrong to dismiss an employee who had turned up to work smelling of alcohol,...
View ArticleEmployer justified in asking Muslim employee to wear shorter religious garment
In Begum v Pedagogy Auras UK Ltd (t/a Barley Lane Montessori Day Nursery), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal ruling that an interviewee was not religiously...
View ArticleEmployment law changes: exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts...
The following employment provisions contained in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 came into force on 26 May 2015: 1. Exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts have been banned....
View ArticleIt is now illegal for employers to force job applicants to reveal spent...
Section 56 of the Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on 10 March 2015, making it illegal for an employer to require job applicants or existing employees to obtain a copy of their criminal record...
View ArticleNew Acas guidance on calculating holiday pay
Acas has published new guidance on calculating holiday pay. This follows the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s ruling last year in Bear Scotland Ltd and others v Fulton and others UKEATS/0047/13, which held...
View ArticleReminder: pensions auto-enrolment for small employers has begun
UK employers with fewer than 50 employees in their PAYE schemes can start enrolling their employees into pension schemes from 1 June 2015. This must be completed by 1 April 2017. However, according to...
View ArticleEmployee share plans must be registered online by 6 July 2015
All companies that operate employee share plans must do the following by 6 July 2015: 1. Register the share plans online with HM Revenue & Customs; 2. Self-certify tax-advantaged plans; and 3....
View ArticleCollective Redundancy Consultation: CJEU restores status quo
As reported by Michael Delaney in his blog of 13 February 2015, in the case of USDAW & Another v Ethel Austin Limited & Others [2014] EWCA SIB 142, which involved the closures of shops by...
View ArticleHow will changes in the forthcoming National Insurance Contributions Act 2015...
In a recently-published article, Michael Delaney, Head of the Employment Team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP, explains how changes in the forthcoming National Insurance Contributions Act 2015 will...
View ArticleShared Parental Leave: Modern Families and the Changing Face of the Workplace
Michael Delaney, Head of the Employment Team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP, addressed the members of the senior management team at DDD/Dendron on the 3 March 2015 to discuss the changes in the...
View ArticleGetting ready for shared parental leave
Further to my blog on 4 December 2014, we are nearing the introduction of shared parental leave (“SPL”). Eligible parents of children whose expected week of childbirth begins on or after 5 April 2015...
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