Two new sets of Regulations have been published over the past week, namely the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, which will require agency workers to be treated effectively as employees for the purpose of employment benefits, and a series of Additional Paternity Leave Regulations, which will allow fathers and adoptive parents to take up to a half of their partner’s maternity or adoption leave entitlements. Both provide a long preparatory period. We will be covering the Regulations in more detail when we have had time to check them over in more detail.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
In a decision given on 18 January 2010, the London Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), in the case Lyons v Mitie Security Ltd, ruled that annual holiday entitlement is not an absolute right as workers are required to give statutory or contractual notice to take leave.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
Form P11DX, which has traditionally been used by employers to apply for a dispensation, now has its online equivalent, at the link below.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
HMRC has made available ‘pdf’ versions of the Taxable Pay Tables A to D for 2010/11 available on its website. They include the new manual calculation method required to handle the additional 50% rate of tax from April 2010.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
Early in 2009 HMRC announced that it was changing its bankers from the Bank of England to Citi and Royal Bank of Scotland Group and that new sort codes and accounts numbers were being introduced in April 2009.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
The right to additional paternity leave and pay will be introduced from April 2011 (although some employees gain entitlement before that date). Following a third consultation period in late 2009, the Government has now published the final Regulations in draft. They are expected to come into force from 6 April 2010, providing up to a year for employers to prepare.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
In a newsletter article in October 2009, we reviewed the Government’s final consultation document on the implementation of the European Directive on Conditions for Temporary Workers. The final Agency Workers Regulations 2010 were laid before Parliament on 21 January and come into force on 1 October 2011, leaving over a year for agencies and hirers of agency workers to prepare for the changes.
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
Regulations made in 2008 require Government Agencies and larger companies to file returns and make payments to the Revenue online, using Revenue Online Services (ROS).
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Posted January 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
Innovative software firm Cascade faces 2010 with optimism after increasing turnover levels in 2009 despite the recession.
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Posted January 21st, 2010 | No Comments »
This is a rather technical newsletter so we have provided brief summaries of the two principal articles. The first article explains the new right to apply to undertake study and training courses during employment, which larger employers will have to handle from April 2010.
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Posted January 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
