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The Government have today confirmed that they are accepting the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission: the national minimum wage (NMW) will increase between 1.1 & 4% from 1 October 2011. The NMW rates from October will be: Category Increase New Rate – from October 2011 Apprentices* 10p (4%) £2.60 per hour 16-17 year-olds 4p […]
Read morePost created on: April 7th, 2011
April sees plenty of changes to employment law for small employers Among the headlines are: a moratorium exempting micro and start-up businesses from new domestic regulation for three years from 1 April 2011; the planned extension to the right to request flexible working is being abandoned; dual discrimination provisions of the Equality Act 2010 (s.14) […]
Read morePost created on: April 1st, 2011
As widely predicted, a revised version of the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 was laid before Parliament yesterday (see appendix). A copy of the draft SI is likely to be available on Legislation.gov.uk in the coming days; in the meantime, we have a copy available. As a Statutory Instrument (SI) subject […]
Read morePost created on: March 2nd, 2011
As confusion remains over the regulations (Edit: Burt’s view has managed once again to put these regulations into a concise & sensible blog post), Twitter’s #ukemplaw topic has been buzzing about the Default Retirement Age Regulations in recent days. Employment Law Clinic have received confirmation from BIS that revised regulations have been published today, and […]
Read morePost created on: March 1st, 2011
The Draft Employment Equality (Abolition of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 are in circulation at the moment, but as Mrs Markleham observes, their source is less than clear. The regular link circulating on Twitter is http://bit.ly/e1C2ZI and this redirects to a Dropbox file (but with no indication of its ownership or control): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18097599/draft%20age%20regs.doc. Edit: the draft […]
Read morePost created on: February 24th, 2011