More than 190 workers brought claims against two employer agencies and two hirers for failing to comply with the requirements for the Swedish Derogation. In Twenty-Four Seven Recruitment Services Ltd and others v Afonso and 190 others [2018] UKEAT/0311/17 the claimants argued that the lack of compliance meant they were entitled to be paid at the same […]
Read articleAn employer’s decision to issue an employee with a disciplinary warning, after she had 60 days off sick in 12 months, amounted to discrimination arising from disability. The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) found in favour of an employee (O) who received a disciplinary after she reached six times the trigger point of the employer’s sickness […]
Read articleThe amount that smaller businesses will need to contribute through co-investment of Apprenticeship funding will half from 10 per cent to five per cent, the Chancellor has announced. It’s important to note, however, that this has no effect on larger businesses who pay a levy amount through their payroll returns each month. In the 2018 […]
Read articleThe Court of Appeal has found that British Airways treated a part-time worker less favourably by paying 50 per cent of full pay for being on duty 53.5 per cent of full-time hours. In British Airways v Pinaud, it was found that Mrs Pinaud worked a part-time contract of 14 days on and 14 days off. […]
Read articleOff-payroll working rules are to be extended to contractors working in the private sector, announced the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his 2018 Budget. The rules, which have applied to the public sector since April 2017, shift the responsibility for determining the tax status of off-payroll workers from the individual contractor to the hiring organisation. […]
Read articleA payroll supervisor is facing jail after fraudulently paying himself more than £30,000. Steven Woodford who worked at The Cambian Group, a firm providing care for children with special needs, made 27 payments to himself, totalling £32,645, between March 2017 and August this year. The Evening Standard reported that Victoria Murphy, prosecuting, told Westminster magistrates’ court the […]
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