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- Date:
- 8 December 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in 2021. We count down the 10 most important judgments of the year that every employer should know about.
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- Date:
- 3 December 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
As well as continuing to deal with workplace issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there will be many other important employment law developments for HR to grapple with in 2022. What does HR need to do to meet its obligations and prepare for the coming year?
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
The hourly rates of the national minimum wage increase.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
From January 2010, the average earnings index was replaced by the average weekly earnings series as the Office for National Statistics' official measure of earnings growth. Here we explain how to use the statistics, and what they tell us about what is happening to pay growth.
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- Date:
- 18 August 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Most employers recognise that recruitment is far from an exact science. A candidate might interview well, but how do we know that they can fulfil the role? Alan Lewis, partner with Constantine Law, examines the grey area of work trials and their interpretation under national minimum wage rules.
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- Date:
- 16 July 2021
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Cendex's Penne Cecil Hutton talks through reward benchmarking, including when to use it, data sources, and how to effectively benchmark all elements of reward.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Tomlinson-Blake v Royal Mencap Society; Shannon v Rampersad and another (t/a Clifton House Residential Home), the Supreme Court dismissed both appeals and ruled that sleep-in care workers are entitled to be paid the national minimum wage only when they are awake for the purposes of working, not when they are sleeping.
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- Date:
- 9 March 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.
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- Date:
- 11 November 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
2020 was the year that HR was required to react to the unexpected, but it's now time to plan for the known challenges in the coming year. We look at what HR can do to prepare for 2021.