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New law: New holiday rules for part year and irregular hours workers
- Dec 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers are planning for new holiday pay laws for ‘part year’ and ‘irregular hours’ workers which look set to come into force from 1 January 2024.
New consultation: Draft guidance on handling new requests for more predictable hours
- Dec 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers will welcome the opportunity to consider and comment on draft guidance from Acas on handling requests to shift to more predictable working patterns from zero-hours and other workers with unpredictable hours.
New law: Employers face new duty to prevent harassment in the workplace
- Dec 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers should be taking measures to comply with a new, additional duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
New guidance: ICO publishes new guidance on monitoring of workers
- Nov 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employees will welcome new guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to help them comply with UK data protection rules if they monitor workers.
New guidance: New transgender and non-binary CIPD guidance launched for employers
- Nov 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers will welcome new guidance from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to help them manage transgender and non-binary equality, diversity and inclusion issues in the workplace.
New guidance: Fertility in the workplace
- Nov 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers will welcome a second new guide on fertility issues in the workplace, this time from the Fawcett Society in collaboration with TotalJobs, after a previous guidance on the topic from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
New law: ‘Live-in’ domestic workers to become entitled to minimum wage
- Nov 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers of au pairs, nannies and other live-in domestic workers will have to pay them the minimum wage as a result of proposed changes to the rules.
New law: Reminder on dismissal of employees charged with criminal offence
- Oct 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers have recently been reminded of the rules governing when an employee charged with a criminal offence can be fairly dismissed, in a case involving a footballer charged with assault and rape.
New penalties: Fines to increase for failure to check right to work or live in UK
- Oct 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers and landlords should pay strict attention to the rule requiring them to check the right to work in the UK of workers and the right to reside for lodgers/tenants respectively, as the government has announced plans to dramatically increase the civil penalties for non-compliance.
New law: Proposed duty to prevent third party harassment of employees dropped
- Oct 2023
- Atom Content Marketing
- Legal Alert
Employers should carefully monitor proposed new equality laws currently going through Parliament, which seem to have dropped a planned new duty on employers to prevent harassment of employees by third parties.
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