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- Quick reference
Updated to reflect the increase in the cap on a week's pay with effect from 6 April 2025.
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- Legal timetable
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
Updated to reflect the NJC pay scale, as agreed in October 2024, applicable from 1 April 2024.
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- Legal timetable
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
The Employment Rights Bill includes provisions to re-establish a negotiating body for school support staff.
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- Legal timetable
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
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.
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- Employment law cases
In Cox v Lancashire County Council, an employment tribunal held that allowing an autistic employee's wife to accompany him at a disciplinary hearing was a reasonable adjustment under disability discrimination legislation.
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- Date:
- 5 February 2021
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- Commentary and insights
HR professionals in public authorities may think that the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector in April 2021 will not affect them. However, public-sector bodies need to be aware of, and prepare for, some changes to the rules.
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- Date:
- 4 November 2020
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- Commentary and insights
The Government has confirmed that it is going ahead with major changes to the duty on large employers to publish an annual modern slavery statement. What changes will employers have to make to the content of, and process for publishing, their statement and which additional employers will be covered?