by Andrew Macmillan | Nov 24, 2023 | News
Earlier this week, the Government announced that it has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations on minimum wage rates to apply from 1 April 2024. This is the largest ever increase to the minimum wage in cash terms. The National Living Wage will apply to all...
by Andrew Macmillan | Nov 16, 2023 | News
The Government has published draft legislation to amend the Equality Act 2010 with effect from 1 January 2024. The Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations codify certain EU-derived discrimination protections which would otherwise have disappeared at the end of this...
by Andrew Macmillan | Nov 9, 2023 | News
The government has published a draft statutory instrument containing amendments to the law on holiday pay, TUPE and working time. The changes, which are likely to come into force on 1 January 2024, include: simplifying holiday pay calculations by making rolled-up...
by Andrew Macmillan | Nov 2, 2023 | News
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Andrew Macmillan has been invited to attend the University of Plymouth as an expert guest speaker to deliver an employment law training session to their Masters Human Resource Management (HRM) students. Andrew will be...
by Andrew Macmillan | Nov 2, 2023 | News
New legislation has come into force which means that criminal convictions become spent after a shorter time, reducing the period that individuals are legally required to declare them to their employers. Section 193 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022...
by Andrew Macmillan | Nov 1, 2023 | News
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 has received Royal Assent, and will come into force in October 2024. This is an important piece of new legislation when it comes to sexual harassment litigation. In short, from next year all employers...
by Andrew Macmillan | Oct 25, 2023 | News
ACAS has today launched a consultation on a draft Code of Practice on handling requests for a predictable working pattern. The Code of Practice will sit alongside the Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 which received Royal Assent in September...
by Andrew Macmillan | Oct 20, 2023 | News
Was an employment tribunal correct, in a direct race discrimination claim, to treat a colleague who made a comment about her own race as an actual comparator of a Claimant who had made a comment about a colleague’s race? No, held the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)...
by Andrew Macmillan | Oct 11, 2023 | News
A former Lidl employee has been awarded more than £50,000 after an employment tribunal found the store she worked at allowed a culture that tolerated inappropriate comments. Miss Hunter, who was a teenager when she worked at the supermarket chain’s store in...
by Andrew Macmillan | Oct 4, 2023 | News
Can employees claim for historic underpayments of holiday pay even if there are gaps of more than three months between deductions? Yes, held the Supreme Court in its long-awaited Judgment in Chief Constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland v Agnew. The Claimants...
