In Autumn 2024 the non-profit group ‘4 Day Week Campaign’ launched a second pilot scheme trialling further proposals to introduce a four-day working week. To achieve this businesses adapted the working week by compressing the number of hours usually worked over five days to four: Example: The total number of worked hours remains the same […]
Read articleDuring the summer periods some employers in certain sectors such as hospitality or farming may have the need to take on extra staff to cover increase workloads in their business, typically this will include seasonal workers such as fruit pickers or to cover certain types of labouring work where there is an increased demand for […]
Read articleAn employment tribunal is to question whether veganism should be recognised as a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. The claimant worked as head of policy and research for the League Against Cruel Sports. He argues that he was dismissed after raising concerns that his employer’s pension fund was investing in businesses that […]
Read articleDraft amendments to the Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Extension) Bill have been published after a proposal to extend the provisions to self-employed workers was put forward under the parliamentary ten-minute rule. Tracy Brabin, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, made the case for amendments to the Bill in a speech to parliament in February 2018. Following […]
Read articleHMRC has published its latest relief at source pension schemes newsletter, containing updates and guidance on pension schemes. The newsletter includes information on the notification of residency status report for 2019 to 2020. It notes that from January 2019, an additional residency status will be added to tell you if your member has Welsh residency status […]
Read articleThose working in the service sector, including nurses, hairdressers, construction workers and people working in retail and food sectors, may be able to claim expense rebates. HMRC is encouraging staff who work in these types of roles and are paid through Pay As You Earn, to investigate whether they can claim back some of their […]
Read articleEmployers cannot dismiss employees who are receiving contractual long-term disability benefits for incapability due to an implied term, found the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). In the case of Awan v ICTS, Mr Awan worked as a security agent for American Airlines at Heathrow Airport. As part of his contract he was entitled to an insured long-term […]
Read articleProposals to give people greater access to their pensions information have been unveiled by the government. New free, user-friendly ‘pensions dashboards’ would allow people to access their information from most pension schemes in one place online for the first time. The aim is to give people accurate, easy to understand, secure information about their pensions. […]
Read articleThe case of King v Sash Windows has been settled following several years of debate over the rights of workers to recover holiday pay where they were wrongly treated as being ‘self-employed’. In December last year, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that workers who have not taken paid leave because they were […]
Read articleSome pension savers have been incorrectly receiving tax relief twice on their contributions or not receiving relief at all, HMRC has admitted. In a joint article written by HMRC and The Pensions Regulator (TPR), the two organisations revealed that they were aware of issues with giving tax relief to scheme members and attributed the problem to an […]
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