Sector focus

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  Quick reference

  Statutory redundancy payments ready reckoner

  Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay with effect from 6 April 2025.

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  Employment law guide

  Discipline and dismissal: financial services

  Enhanced with further information on steps to undertake on suspension of an employee.

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  Employment law guide

  Remuneration: financial services

  Updated to include information about a consultation on remuneration reform.

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  Legal timetable

  Reform of trade union laws - phase one

  Updated to reflect the publication of the Government's response to its consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations, which was published on 4 March 2025.

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  Quick reference

  National Joint Council for Local Government Services pay spine

  Updated to reflect the NJC pay scale, as agreed in October 2024, applicable from 1 April 2024. 

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Financial services regulation: financial services

  Updated to include information on the findings of the FCA's non-financial misconduct survey, published on 25 October 2024.

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  Legal timetable

  Fair Pay Agreement in adult social care sector

  The Employment Rights Bill includes provisions to introduce a framework for a Fair Pay Agreement process in the adult social care sector.

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  Legal timetable

  Re-establishment of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body

  The Employment Rights Bill includes provisions to re-establish a negotiating body for school support staff.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Protection for outsourced public-sector workers

  The Employment Rights Bill reinstates the "two-tier code" relating to the protection of workers under public-sector outsourcing contracts. 

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  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: Over £4.5 million compensation for dismissal because of ADHD and PTSD

  In Wright-Turner v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and another, the employment tribunal held that a senior council officer's dismissal while on sick leave, with no warning, fair procedure or opportunity to appeal, was unlawful disability discrimination.