On Monday 12th May 2025 the UK Government announced changes within their white paper entitled ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’. This white paper includes changes to the employment rights of overseas workers.The white paper can be accessed via the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/restoring-control-over-the-immigration-system-white-paper
The Employment Rights Bill contains proposals which will introduce the largest set of changes in employment law for many years. For more details on current progress please click on the following link; https://www.gov.uk/government/news/employment-rights-bill-to-boost-productivity-for-british-workers-and-grow-the-economy
It has been announced this evening that the National Living Wage (NLW) will increase to £11.44 as from April 2024. More details can be found via the following link; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67484102
An employee can normally self-certify sickness absence for the first 7 days. However, the self-certification period has now been extended to first 28 days of sickness absence on a temporary basis This temporary change is to enable GPs to focus on the COVID-19 booster programme. The change is effective from 17th December 2021. The temporary […]
Further to the extension by the Government of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) a Treasury Direction has now outlined how the scheme will operate between 1st November 2020 and 31st January 2021 (although the scheme is extended until 31st March 2021). The CJRS will operate which will include the following area of note; No […]