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Employees who lose a close relative, and women and partners who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks, will gain a legal right to time off work from April 2027, the government confirmed on 22 September. Ministers will introduce a new statutory right to bereavement leave for employees who lose a spouse or partner, a parent, […]
Proposals 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 […]
Read articleThis newsletter is published by HMRC’s Pension Schemes Services to update stakeholders on the latest news for pension schemes. Pension Schemes Newsletter 105 includes articles on: Of particular interest in this newsletter is the commentary on pensions tax relief. As reported by the Payroll Centre, there have been difficulties around pensions tax relief with some individuals receiving […]
Read articleFTSE 350 companies are being urged to do more to get women into senior leadership positions. The Hampton-Alexander Review 2018 report said that, although FTSE 100 companies were on track to meet the government’s target of getting a third of women into senior leadership positions by 2020, FTSE 350 firms were falling behind. The report […]
Read articleHMRC has published the latest update for pension scheme administrators about the ending of contracting-out in countdown bulletin 39. This edition discusses scheme financial reconciliation, whereby all schemes will be offered the opportunity to request their financial position. Following testing, all schemes currently in scope can request their financial position as at 7 October 2018. Schemes […]
Read articleMore 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 articleThe importance of ensuring employment contracts are signed and records are kept up-to-date was highlighted during the recent case of Tenon FM Ltd v Cawley. Ms Cawley worked at facilities management company, Tenon FM Ltd. During her 10 year tenure, she held several positions and was finally promoted to Operations Director until she resigned in 2018. […]
Read articleWage growth outpaced inflation for an eighth month in a row, rising 0.9 per cent in real terms (against CPIH inflation), while regular pay before inflation grew at its fastest in almost a decade at 3.2 per cent. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also revealed the employment rate remains high, […]
Read articleEmployment tribunals do have jurisdiction to resolve disputes about the construction of an employment contract when looking at a claim for unauthorised deductions from wages. In Agarwal v Cardiff University & Another, Ms Agarwal was a consultant urological surgeon at Cardiff University. Part of her salary was withheld because the University believed that she was not […]
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