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- Type:
- Employment law guide
Updated with the rate of statutory sick pay, and the lower earnings limit for national insurance contributions, effective from 6 April 2025.
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- Date:
- 24 March 2025
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- Commentary and insights
While the introduction of neonatal care leave and pay is the key change for HR professionals to get to grips with, there are other employment law changes in April 2025. These include increases to the national minimum wage rates; a rise in statutory redundancy pay; and the uprating of statutory sick pay and family-related pay.
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- Date:
- 18 March 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Susie Munro, senior legal editor at Brightmine, looks at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence.
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- Type:
- Quick reference
Updated to reflect the statutory sick pay rate in force from 6 April 2025.
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- Date:
- 5 March 2025
- Type:
- News
More than a million low-paid workers will be entitled to higher statutory sick pay rates in changes expected to be introduced next year.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's response to its consultation on strengthening statutory sick pay, which was published on 4 March 2025.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
We look at three cases where employers have lost "discrimination arising from disability" claims after treating workers unfavourably because of disability-related absence.
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- Date:
- 6 January 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year
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- Date:
- 6 December 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The Employment Rights Bill packs 28 imposing employment law reforms into its 158 pages. While HR professionals await the substantive details needed to flesh out the Bill, we outline the key policies that you will need to update and an overview of what those updates might involve.
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- Date:
- 22 November 2024
- Type:
- News
The 2025-26 rates for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and sick pay have been published by the Government.