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Pod 6, The Engine Rooms, Station Road
Chepstow
Monmouthshire
01633 730907
For more than 10 years we have provided companies of all sizes and in a variety of sectors with uncomplicated, innovative and affordable human resources advice and on-site support ensuring that your people are an asset to your company and not a liability.
With the National Minimum Wage (NMW) now almost fifteen years old, and with another increase pending on 1st April 2017 HMRC have issued a list of the most elaborate excuses they've been given by employers for not paying the appropriate rates:
The Government has announced that the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage rates will increase from the beginning of April 2021 and that the National Living Wage will now apply to those aged over 23 as opposed to age 25 currently.
Read MoreHMRC has formally named and shamed 139 companies that it has investigated for failing to pay the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage to its employees, between 2016 and 2018.
Read MoreAs Christmas draws ever closer, I wanted to take the opportunity to of saying that it’s been a huge pleasure working with you this year, in what has to be one of the most challenging years in living memory, and I hope that you’re able to recharge your spent batteries over the Christmas period ready for what I feel sure has to be a better 2021, irrespective of how it starts.
Read MoreLast month saw a former Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) employee, Rose Taylor, awarded £180,000 in compensation in what is being described as a landmark discrimination case.
Read MoreThe Government are proposing an additional public holiday in 2022 in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Read MoreA question that we are regularly asked by clients faced with an Employment Tribunal claim is, will the claimant have to pay our legal costs in the event that we successfully defend their claim(s) or vice versa, will the employer have to pick up the claimant’s costs if they win.
Read MoreLast week the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published some long-awaited direction for employers faced with a data subject access request (SAR). This guidance does not change the law as it currently stands, but instead offers some clarification on some of the more ambiguous points.
Read MoreEarlier today the Government announced that is is seeking views from industry about how best to use employment law to support those who are subjected to domestic abuse.
Read MoreAn article in today’s Times newspaper says that the Ministry of Justice has written to the Law Commission asking it to provide recommendations for creating a coherent system for charging and updating fees the future.
Read MoreThe following article was written by a friend and colleague, Steve Lobley of Spring Leadership after a discussion he as I had about the need for employers to recognise that the employees continuing to work to keep the lights on for those furloughed.
Read MoreThe Law Commission has today published a report on Employment Law Hearing Structures. The report is long and makes many recommendations; the key one is to have a single time limit for employment tribunal claims of six months.
Read MoreDespite the fact that the Government’s Job Retention Scheme has been extended until 30th June 2020, and could be extended further, I know that a number of companies are already looking further ahead and are thinking the redundancies may need to follow the end of the current restrictions.
Read MoreFrom 1st January 2021, new workers from overseas (both EU and non-EU citizens) will need to apply for visa to be able to work in the UK; visas will be awarded based on the applicant achieving a minimum number of points against a number of criteria.
Read MoreWith all of the updates about coronavirus, it’s easy to forget that today is the start of a new financial year and the date on which a number of employment law changes take effect.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has today issued judgement on two cases dealing with vicious liability.
Read MoreFrom many recent conversations, I know that more and more people are being asked to work from home in an attempt to keep business running in these unprecedented times. For some people, working from home is the norm, for others, it’s daunting and even stressful, especially if they are doing it for the first time.
Read MoreYesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced that the Government will reimburse small employers (those employing less than two hundred and fifty employees) any statutory sick pay they pay to employees, for the first fourteen days of sickness in the event that they are ill with coronavirus, or have to isolate under the advice of a medical practitioner.
Read MoreThere French Court of Cassation (their equivalent to the UK Supreme Court for civil law matters) has issued a ruling that Uber drivers are not self-employed despite the fact that contractually that is the case.
Read MoreThe Government has announced the statutory rate changes that will take effect from 6th April 2020. The changes are as follows …
Read MoreEmployers have a duty of care towards their employees which includes not exposing them to unnecessary risk. In this case, that may include not putting them in a position in which they could become infected by the virus without taking all reasonable precautions.
This duty of care, where Coronavirus is concerned, may differ depending on an employee’s specific circumstances, for example, if they are older or they have underlying conditions.
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