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Gender Pay Gap Reporting

Today may be International Women’s Day but we will have to wait for another couple of years to see the results of the Gender Pay Gap Report. It is expected the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2016 will come into force on 1 October 2016...

Are you worried about the new workplace pension for your staff?

Worried about providing a workplace pension for your staff? join the club... According to a new CIPD report 72% of eligible UK workers now pay into a workplace pension scheme, and this increase is reported to be largely due to auto-enrolment. Employers report lower...

National Living Wage

Confused over National Living Wage? You may have seen adverts on TV talking about the new National Living Wage and still be wondering if it affects you and your business. Here are the key points in summary: 1. This NLW is a new statutory rate for employees and workers...

Happy Birthday, have a days leave!

Congratulations Leave?! Those of you running your own business may already despair about the costs of maternity, paternity, shared parental, sick leave and holiday pay - take a look through this list published by Personnel Today of more "unusual" days off granted in...

Do you trust your employees?

Do you trust your employees? Why would you employ them if you don't trust them? Here's Sam's new article for @championsOSB ‪#‎championsOSB‬ http://www.championsofsmallbusiness.co.uk/magazine/2016/01/its-a-matter-of-trust/

Exclusivity Clause Penalties in Zero Hours Contracts

Penalties for Exclusivity Clauses in Zero Hours Contacts came into force 11 January 2016. Zero hours contracts can no longer contain exclusivity clauses that forbid employees working for another employer; this was prohibited in May 2015 but there was no penalty for an...

Private Communications at work

New court ruling gives employers free reign to snoop on private communication....NOT QUITE! Yes we're quite sure that in some areas of the media there will be a loud and outraged announcement that the ruling yesterday by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) means...

New Year HR-esolutions

Are you making any New Year HResolutions? Take a look at Sam's new article on getting your HR in order for 2016 http://www.championsofsmallbusiness.co.uk/…/12/hr-new-years/

Top 10 Employment Cases of 2015

Personnel Today lists the top ten employment cases of 2015 - we're delighted for our friend Karen Jackson at didlaw that one of her key cases of the year is within that hallowed list. Karen is a specialist employment lawyer focussing on disability, illness, and...