‘Birmingham city council has reached an agreement to settle historical equal pay claims that left the authority with liabilities estimated at £760m and pushed it into effective bankruptcy.’
The Guardian, 10th December 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is likely to take a tougher approach to policing non-financial misconduct and ensure that firms reduce employee remuneration, or even apply clawback, where non-financial misconduct is identified, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 25th November 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘On October 1, 2024, the newly adopted Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (hereinafter: the Tipping Act), came into force, accompanied by a Code of Practice on the fair and transparent distribution of tips (hereinafter: the Code), issued by the Department for Business & Trade (hereinafter: DBT). According to the DBT, the purpose of the Tipping Act is “to ensure the fair and transparent allocation of all tips, gratuities, and service charges.” Its desired outcome is “to improve fairness for workers by ensuring that the tips consumers leave in recognition of good service and hard work are going to the workers as intended.”’
UK Labour Law, 21st November 2024
Source: uklabourlawblog.com
‘More than 1,200 garment workers in Leicester were illegally underpaid over the last five years, figures obtained by the BBC have revealed.’
BBC News, 19th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Staff must be given 100% of tips from customers under a new law which bans businesses from withholding gratuity payments.’
BBC News, 1st October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The First-tier Tribunal has ordered Cumberland Council to release documents relating to a decision to double councillors’ pay over an 11-month period, after it refused to provide information requested by the BBC.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th September 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The off-payroll working rules, known as IR35, apply where a business engages an individual to provide services off-payroll and through an intermediary – commonly a company referred to as a ‘personal services company’ (PSC). IR35 targets the use of PSCs to avoid employment taxes.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th September 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Drivers working for Bolt, the ride-hailing app operator, are seeking to be classed as workers rather than self-employed contractors at an employment tribunal.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘During an average shift on the shop floor at Next, Helen Scarsbrook has to remain polite and keep smiling while she makes split-second judgments about which customers need help and which need to be tactfully discouraged from shoplifting and ushered out of the store.’
The Guardian, 1st September 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Cleaners at a prestigious London private school have won their battle for improved pay and working conditions, as well as compensation for steep cuts in their hours, scrapping plans for industrial action that was due to have started next week.’
The Guardian, 29th August 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An American singer has won a £20,000 payout after an independent music company failed to pay his wages and left him pleading for dinner money.’
BBC News, 22nd August 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Law firm employees have succeeded in their employment tribunal claim over unauthorised deductions from their wages after the sole practitioner of the firm unexpectedly died.’
Law Society's Gazette, 13th August 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) has expressed its “unease” at a “long-term decline” in quality ratings for new district and circuit judges as it recommended a 6% pay rise across the bench.’
Legal Futures, 31st July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The King’s Speech on 17 July 2024 announced the 35 Bills which are the legislative priority of the new Labour Government. Those relating to labour law are of particular interest to readers of this blog.’
UK Labour Law, 23rd July 2024
Source: uklabourlawblog.com
‘Costs lawyers have become a fundamental part of litigation teams and this needs to be recognised in the guideline hourly rates and with the ability to apply for judicial appointment, it has been argued.’
Legal Futures, 9th July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The language services company contracted to provide courtroom services faces a fresh headache after it emerged that interpreters and translators are joining forces to potentially bring a group claim over employment rights.’
Law Society's Gazette, 27th June 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A solicitor has been awarded damages of £26,475 after her law firm withdrew an offer of promotion and four weeks later summarily dismissed her because she was pregnant’
Legal Futures, 20th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘On April 4, new salary thresholds for sponsored workers came into effect, as part of the wide-ranging changes to immigration rules that the government confirmed in March.’
EIN Blog, 17th June 2024
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘A law firm with nearly 50 people specialising in family and commercial work has seen fee income rise after introducing a four-day week.’
Legal Futures, 18th June 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court (Mrs Justice Dias) has handed down its first judgment concerning the Disguised Remuneration Repayment Scheme 2020 (DRRS), and in particular the proper interpretation of the requirement for “reasonable disclosure”. The Claimant, Sensor Solutions Ltd, challenged a decision of HMRC not to make payments to the Claimant under the DRRS.’
Devereux Chambers, 15th May 2024
Source: www.devereuxchambers.co.uk
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