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1st FEBRUARY 2012 Statutory Rate/Limit Increases – EMPLOYERS BEWARE
1. Statutory redundancy payment increases The cap on a week’s pay for calculating statutory redundancy increases from £400 to £430. Therefore, the new maximum statutory redundancy pay is £12,900. 2. Unfair dismissal basic award increases An award of compensation for unfair dismissal is made up of a basic award as well as a compensatory award. The [...]
Case Law – Spaceright Europe Limited v Baillavine
The Court of Appeal has clarified the case law relating to when a dismissal is automatically unfair under TUPE. Background When there is a relevant transfer under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE), affected employees are protected against dismissal. Regulation 7 says that if any employee of either the transferor or [...]
Dealing with the extra bank holiday this year
This year, Tuesday June 5 will be an extra bank holiday to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Question: Are staff automatically entitled to these days off and, if so, what’s the position on pay? Answer: There’s no automatic statutory right to time off (paid or otherwise) on bank or public holidays. The statutory entitlement to [...]
Apprentice v employee status
The following is taken from an excellent article in People Management online and answers a lot of the questions we often get from employers who take on apprenticeships and then wonder where they stand in relation to it being treated as ‘normal’ employment: Increased Government funding has brought apprenticeships back in to vogue. Employers going down this [...]
Unfair dismissal change will NOT be retrospective
The Government have confirmed that employees starting work before 6 April 2012 will continue to be able to claim unfair dismissal after only one year’s service. Employees who commence employment on or after the 6th April 2012 will be under the new regulations and will have to have worked for two years before they can [...]
