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Another very busy week for news. Our principal items this week involve Pension Personal Accounts, the new payroll-based pension savings scheme that is expected to be introduced in 2012. That sounds a long way off but the legislation – the Pensions Act 2008 – is already in place and, in the past week, the first detailed consultation document on the content of the draft regulations has been published. This provided the stimulus for an update on the guidance on Pension Personal Accounts that we issued in January. It makes for some serious reading.
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In last week’s newsletter we reported the changes that had been passed by the Scottish Parliament to the calculation procedures for Earnings Arrestments and Current Maintenance Arrestments. Insufficient notice was given for an implementation date of 6 April 2009.
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The first of three consultation documents on the rules and procedures that will apply to the provision by employers of Pension Personal Accounts from 2012 has been published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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HMRC issued the following announcement on 20 March:
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The new Acas Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures comes into effect from 6 April 2009, replacing the former statutory procedures. The legislation makes provision for the handling of situations that straddle the effective date of the change and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has published a two-page flowchart to help employers understand which cases should be handled under the old rules and which under the new.
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If an employee is not entitled to SSP or entitlement to SSP runs out, employers are required to complete the relevant sections of form SSP1, which includes an indication of the reason why SSP cannot be paid or can no longer be paid, and issue it to the employee. The employee may be entitled to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) instead.
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On 17 March 2009, in the case Premier Groundworks v Jozsa, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) allowed an appeal against an employment tribunal decision that Mr. Jozsa was a “worker” and entitled to holiday pay.
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In a technical consultation document aimed at pension industry professionals, pension schemes, trustees, and industry and member representative organisations, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking views on proposals to reform the disclosure of information requirements that apply to occupational and personal pension schemes.
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From 6 April 2009, the right of carers to request a variation of their employment contract to help them care for a child under age 6 is extended to cover carers of children under age 17. This change is made by means of a single replacement sentence in the relevant regulations.
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Changes to Tier 1 of the points-based system for highly skilled workers, raising the academic and financial requirements of two categories, take effect for all applications submitted on or after 31 March 2009. No employer sponsorship is involved for Tier 1 applications.
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