Hello and welcome back to your monthly employment law newsletter, coming a day earlier than usual due to tomorrow being Good Friday. We hope you all have a wonderful Easter! As many of you will be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) will come into force on 25th May 2018. Unlike the […]
The deadline for private sector companies to publish their Gender Pay Gap Reporting Data is 4th April 2018. As it stands only around a third of the eligible companies have uploaded their data to the government portal. However, some companies have already published their data, the latest being Deloitte and Carlsberg. Deloitte revealed a […]
It’s that time of year again. On the eve of the new National Minimum Wage rates coming into force, the Government has published its latest list of non-payers to name and shame them. As well as the usual hairdressers, car washes and hospitality offenders the big names on the list include Wagamama, Stoke & Birmingham […]
Over the last few years multi-claimant equal pay claims have become more relevant. Asda recently lost a mass equal pay claims where predominantly female store staff were paid less than their predominately male counterparts. Sainsbury’s and Tesco also face similar claims, with the Tesco claim being worth up to £4bn. Moving away from supermarkets – […]
Taxing PILON Payments For years it has been possible to make a payment in lieu of notice to employees whose contract of employment does not contain a pay in lieu of notice (PILON) clause without deducting tax and NICs. For employments terminating on or after 6 April 2018 there will no longer be this option. […]
To round off this month’s update we have another tabloid tale of woeful misconduct. To make a neat tie-in to the Easter bank holiday it would have been very convenient if someone had been sacked from a chocolate factory for tampering with the products, alas no such case has materialized. However, in a slightly more […]
