The national minimum wage (NMW) applies to all workers and is paid at different rates according to age. There is a separate rate for apprentices, and a National Living Wage (NLW) that applies to…
Part II of the Employment Rights Act 1996 governs unauthorised deductions from wages and has evolved (as a result of case law) to include complete non-payment of wages or salary.
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This section concentrates on holiday entitlement and holiday pay under employment legislation and also the statutory rights of employees and workers under the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations…
All employees, irrespective of age, are entitled to claim statutory sick pay as long as they have average earnings of at least £123 per week. For SSP purposes an 'employee' is classed as someone who…
Sabbaticals usually involve the employee taking a period of time - over and above normal paid annual leave - away from the workplace. It is usually a single period of extended leave, but may instead…
There are three main types of pension arrangements for employers: group personal pension schemes, occupational pension schemes and stakeholder pension schemes. These arrangements provide two main…
Employee share plans are arrangements enabling employees to acquire shares in their employing company or its parent or, more unusually, another group company.
Types of employee share plans…
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An employee with asthma who took 15 days’ sickness absence in less than a year claimed disability discrimination after she was issued with a formal warning. The employment tribunal ruled…
