CIPD looks at employment law developments in October and November 2023 for England, Scotland and Wales.  November has seen the return of a Supreme Court decision in Deliveroo vs Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB). Riders fo...

CIPD summarises employment law developments in October and November 2023 for England, Scotland and Wales.  November saw the return of a Supreme Court decision in Deliveroo vs Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), concluding t...

CIPD looks at UK employment law developments in September 2023 On 18 September, two acts received Royal Assent: Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill  This act extends pensions automatic enrolment to younger jobholde...

CIPD looks at UK employment law developments in August 2023  Fines raised for firms found to be employing illegal migrants   New fines are set to come into force in early 2024 for firms who are found to have repeatedly employed illegal...

*This post was written in late June, 2023. For the most up-to-date information on legislative changes under RUEL please see our member-support page: https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/employment-law/retained-eu-law-bill-employment-changes/&n...

On 24 May 2023, three acts extending protections for parents and carers received Royal Assent: The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act  This act allows up to 12 weeks paid leave for employed parents with a baby that is admitted to neonat...

*This post was written in May 2023, for the most up-to-date information on legislative changes under RUEL please see our member-support page https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/employment-law/retained-eu-law-bill-employment-changes/As the UK Gover...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law developments in January and February 2023 for England, Scotland and Wales.  Teachers’ strikes  On 1 February 2023, 85% of schools in England and Wales were either fully or...

Jill Evans, law content analyst, CIPD, looks at UK employment law developments in December 2022 and January 2023.The statutory rate for maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental pay rises in April this year from the current £156.66 to ...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law developments in October and November 2022 for England, Scotland and Wales.  Minimum wage 2023  The government has announced a 9.7% increase across most categories of the Nationa...

* This post was written in October 2022, for the most up-to-date information on legislative changes under RUEL please see our member-support page https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/employment-law/retained-eu-law-bill-employment-changes/Jill Evans, Law...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law developments in August and September 2022 for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  Additional UK bank holiday  An additional UK bank holiday was announced to coincide...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law developments in July and August 2022 for England, Scotland, and Wales. A handful of new employment laws appeared before Parliament’s summer shutdown. In mid-July, draft regulat...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law developments in June and July 2022 for England, Scotland, and Wales. On 13 July, the RMT union, representing railway, maritime and transport workers, announced a one-day strike over ...

‘Future of work’ review, protection for low-pay and shop workers, self-isolating for monkeypox. Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law changes and case law in May 2022.This month’s Queen’s Speech l...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law changes and case law in January to April 2022 April 2022 saw the following increases in statutory pay rates:  Maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental pay rose to &po...

By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst.  The government has announced new minimum wage rates for 2022 but has not said when the long-awaited Employment Bill will be published. The Bill is expected, among other measures, to: Make flexible working th...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law changes in April/May 2021April is the month when statutory rates increase, and this year is no exception. Statutory maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental pay rose to £...

Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, looks at employment law changes and case law in November and December. The unexpected keeps happening. The new Job Support Scheme was replaced at the 11th hour by a reintroduced Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme , and ...

By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD Rules and regulations can’t always keep pace with real life. The UK Government’s new Job Support Scheme, announced on 24 September, is already having to be extended to support businesses forced to ...

By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD.For months, people professionals have been preoccupied with workforce safety, and now some are also having to turn their attention to making redundancies. Both tasks require them to check regulations while kee...

By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD  At the beginning of April most organisations’ attention was fixed on how Coronavirus would affect our everyday lives . Managers were...

By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst With perfect timing, Veganuary was ushered in this year with a ‘landmark’ judgment on ‘ethical veganism’. The case, Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports, involves a zoologist who was the...

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) seem to be the latest celebrity ‘must haves’. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge Craig Revel Horwood recently revealed on daytime TV that he had asked people who work for him, his builder, and even ...

By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst Consider this scenario. One of your employees maliciously posts the payroll data of 100,000 staff – names and addresses, bank account details and salaries – to a file sharing website. He also sends the ...