Sector focus

New and updated

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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. 

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Reform of trade union laws - phase one

  Updated to reflect the publication of the Employment Rights Bill on 10 October 2024.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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 2024. 

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Senior Managers and Certification Regimes: financial services

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

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Supreme Court rules on historic holiday pay claims

  In Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that police officers and civilian police support staff in Northern Ireland can recover holiday underpayments that stretch back as far as 1998.