Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to United Kingdom as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
United Kingdom: Oral variations
It has become a standard element in most employment contracts that only written variations will be valid …
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United Kingdom: Revised guidelines
Revised guidelines on setting board room remuneration have just been issued jointly by a group of company secretaries in FT100 companies and the Investors Group …
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United Kingdom: Apprenticeship levy – the small print
The UK Department of Education has just issued guidance on the new apprenticeship levy scheme that will be introduced on April 6th 2017 (https://goo …
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United Kingdom: Widening scope of “applicable law”
Employers of staff in different jurisdictions are often faced with a dilemma about what laws apply in particular cases …
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United Kingdom: Illegal employment now a criminal offence
Sections 34 and 35 of the Immigration Act 2016 came into force on 12 July 2016 …
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United Kingdom: What is happening to bonus payments?
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show the pattern of bonus payments for service sector employees on a year-on-year basis …
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United Kingdom: Workplace wearables
The acceptance of workplace wearables has recently been the subject of a PWC survey report …
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United Kingdom: Real employee absence trends
The origin of the term “lies, damn lies and statistics” is lost in the mists of time, but if written today it would be best end …
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Jersey: Law on Age Discrimination
Age discrimination regulations will come into force in the UK’s semi-autonomous, Channel Islands bailiwick of Jersey on September 1st 2016, but subject to a two-year transition for certain provisions …
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United Kingdom: Union membership continues gradual decline
The UK The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has published statistics on trade union membership in 2015 …
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United Kingdom: Workplace violence remains serious threat
Although the incidence of fatal workplace accidents has halved in the UK over the last twenty years the previous downward trend in non-fatal accidents has come to an end in recent years …
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United Kingdom: Persistent poverty
Latest date from the UK’s Office for National Statistics reveals that 3 …
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United Kingdom: One third of UK population experiences poverty
UNITED KINGDOM: Latest date from the UK’s Office For National Statistics reveals that 3 …
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United Kingdom: New approach to funding apprenticeships
From April 6th 2017, all employers operating in the UK with a total pay bill of more than 3 million pounds (4 …
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United Kingdom: Trade Union Bill receives Royal Assent
The UK’s Trade Union Bill has now received Royal Assent — thus making it the Trade Union Act …
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