BREAKING: If your business is legally required to shut down for a local lockdown, you will be entitled to grants to pay employees wages up to 67%, up to a maximum of £2,100 per month. How will the new scheme work? The expanded support will still come under the recently-announced Job Support Scheme (JSS) which was introduced as a replacement for the furlough measures, which end on 31 October. The JSS allows businesses to reduce their employees’ hours, without cutting their pay

The Court of Appeal has held that holiday pay for a teacher in permanent employment but working term-time only on irregular hours, should be calculated based on a 12-week average of hours worked. Below is a summary of the case of The Harpur Trust v Brazel: The Claimant is a music teacher in permanent employment but working term-time only, on irregular hours (around 32) per week. The EAT held that her holiday pay should be calculated based on a 12-week average of hours worked,

In a speech on the future of the labour market, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions said that government will at last be shortly consulting on reforming Statutory Sick Pay. At the Recruitment and Employment Confederation on May 28th, talking about the future of the Labour Market, Amber Rudd said: “We will shortly consult on reforming Statutory Sick Pay, in order to better support employers to retain staff who experience health problems. The current system is failing

Employees and their family members who are EU citizens may be able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021. Guidance on Gov.Uk together with an online application process is available for EU citizens now, if this application route is used, paper records and evidence will still need to be submitted in order to complete the process. An app has been created to work on Android devices which removes the need to submit paper evidence and

A survey by Lee Hecht Harrison Penna showed only 28% of workers booked their entire allocated annual leave by the end of November 2018, meaning 72% had holiday allowance they did not book off work. Part time workers finish their working year with the most amount of holiday time left unused: those working less than 8 hours a week had almost two weeks (9.8 days) of annual leave left over. Workers in Norwich appear to be the biggest workaholics, with almost a day and a half (1

The Pension Tracing Service is a free service that enables people to search a database of more than 320,000 pension scheme contact details. The new service is simple to use and provides trace results immediately. Individuals enter their former employers’ details into the online database and are provided with contact details for pension schemes they may have paid into. Do you know where all your past pensions are? Check yours out today at https://www.gov.uk/find-pension-cont