Shared parental leave: dad not entitled to enhanced pay rules EAT
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed a claim of sex discrimination from a father who claimed his employer should pay him the same enhanced pay as a female employee on maternity leave when he took shared parental leave. In… Read on
Gender pay deadline: the figures are in!
4 April 2018 was the deadline for large private and voluntary sector employers (with 250 or more employees) to publish their gender pay gap figures on the government’s dedicated website. Around 1,500 employers missed the deadline and over 1,000 added… Read on
Agency worker’s higher hourly rate didn’t compensate for other less good terms
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) recently had to consider the rights of agency workers under regulation 5(1) of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (AWR), which requires agency workers to be given the same working and employment conditions as permanent workers… Read on
Statutory parental payments on the up in 2018
From the beginning of April 2018, the statutory payments that eligible employees receive while on maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental or sick leave will go up. Statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and maternity allowance will increase to £145.18 (from… Read on
Pay rise for the lowest paid from April 2018
Don’t spend it all at once but, the national living wage and other rates of the national minimum wage are set to go up from April next year! The Chancellor announced the increases in his Autumn Budget last month. For… Read on
Live-in carers & minimum wage: FAQs
My role as a carer requires me to be present at work, but allows me to sleep if I have nothing to do. Am I entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage for these hours? Recent case law has… Read on
What is statutory maternity pay?
Statutory maternity pay is given to employees on maternity leave, provided that they had 26 weeks of employment at the 14th week before the birth, and were earning over a certain minimum amount. Employers may pay additional, non-statutory, wages during… Read on
Non-payment of discretionary bonus: new case
We report on a new case dealing with discretionary bonuses and the steps an employer will need to take if not paying. Background The Claimant in this case, Mr Hill, had a bonus scheme with his employer Niksun Inc, which… Read on
Lock v. British Gas : latest on holiday commission payments
British Gas’s appeal against the Employment Tribunal’s decision that holiday pay should include compensation for lost commission has now been heard by the European Court of Justice. Here is how the English Courts responded. Background Whether or not commission should… Read on
Muslim discriminated against by pay scale?
Did the Prison Service’s pay system indirectly discriminate against Muslim prison chaplains? The Prison Service had only employed Muslim chaplains since 2002, but had employed Christian chaplains for some time before that. This meant that Muslim chaplains were generally lower… Read on