17 May 2011 | Michael Delaney
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 will come into force on 1 October 2011, and employers must ensure that they are prepared for them.
I have written an article, published in May’s edition of Workplace...
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13 May 2011 | Michael Delaney
On 11 May, the Government announced that it will extend its ongoing review of employment law. This forms part of the Government’s current review of employment red tape.
The areas under consideration...
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10 May 2011 | Michael Delaney
I was recently asked to provide an answer to an employment question posed in Jonathan Moules’ ‘Business Questions’ column in The Financial Times newspaper, which appeared in the Saturday 7 May 2011...
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10 May 2011 | Michael Delaney
The Government has published its final guidance on the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, which come into force on 1 October 2011. The guidance aims to help employers and the recruitment sector prepare...
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6 May 2011 | Michael Delaney |
The Agency Workers Regulations will come into force on 1 October 2011.
These Regulations will introduce some very important changes to the rights of agency workers. I have already hosted and taken...
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8 April 2011 | Shimon Shaw
HMRC has issued an alert to employers about key PAYE changes coming in this spring.
The changes affect Employer Annual Returns and starter and leaver PAYE forms. From April, employers with fewer than...
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7 April 2011 | Michael Oberwarth
The Government has launched today (7 April) its “Red Tape Challenge”, a website-based project aimed at identifying - and scrapping - unnecessary regulations.
The Government is calling on interested...
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7 April 2011 | Michael Oberwarth
The Government has announced today (7 April) that the national minimum wage will increase on 1 October 2011.
The new rates from this date will be:
Adult rate (21 years old or more): £6.08 an hour...
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6 April 2011 | Michael Delaney
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) published its guidance on The Agency Worker’s Regulations 2010 on 4 April 2011. The Regulations are due to come into force on 1 October 2010.
The...
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5 April 2011 | Bob Fahy
HR Zone, an online resource for HR professionals in business, has published an article I've written on the impact of the additional paternity leave provisions, which came into force in April 2011, and...
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