The Government announced plans today to make it easier for people to balance work & family life. Employment Relations Minister, Ed Davey, announced that the Government will extend the right to request flexible working to parents of children under 18 from 2011. The right is currently available to parents of children aged 16 or under, […]
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Post created on: September 30th, 2010
The right to request time to train was included in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act which came into force for employees in large organisations (employers with more than 250 employees) from April 2010, with plans for it to be extended to all employers in April 2011. The right allows any employee with 26 […]
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Post created on: August 14th, 2010
A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research and campaign group Internocracy suggests employers are. The very legitimate arguments put forward in the report are that interns are ‘workers’ under the National Minimum Wage Act, and therefore due at least the national minimum wage (and the workers would probably be due holiday pay […]
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Post created on: August 2nd, 2010
Following the announcement in the Budget that the DRA would be phased out from April 2011, with the exception of a six month transition from the existing regulations – the latest date that an employee could be retired under the DRA would need to fall before 1 October 2011 – the Government has today published […]
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Post created on: July 29th, 2010
Theresa May, Equalities Minister, has confirmed the government will press ahead with the implementation of the Equality Act from October. There had been some recent speculation in employment law circles that the legislation would not follow the original timetable set-out by the last Labour government. This was fuelled by a discovery that references to implementation […]
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Post created on: July 4th, 2010