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New Minimum Wage Rates from April 2024
The Government has accepted new recommendations to increase the rate of the National Living Wage (NLW) to £11.44 per hour and will reduce the age qualification from 23 to 21. The changes take effect on ...
Guidance issued on Recording Employment Tribunal proceedings
The Presidents of Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and in Scotland have published a joint Practice Direction and Presidential Guidance on the recording of Employment Tribunal hearings and the transcription of such recordings ...
Resignations in the heat of the moment reconsidered
In Omar v Epping Forest District Citizens Advice, the EAT has held that an employment tribunal erred in finding that an employee’s resignation in the heat of the moment was really intended ...
Duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Act introduces a duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees in the workplace ...
Bonus ‘clawback’ provision is not a restraint of trade
In Steel v Spencer Road LLP, the High Court has held that a provision in an employee’s contract, which required a bonus of £187,500 to be repaid if his employment was terminated within 3 months after it was paid, or if he gave or was served notice to ...
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