Budget announcement: Personal tax allowance to increase to £12,500
Following yesterdays budget announcement, the Chancellor has announced that the personal allowance for income tax will be increased from £11,850 to £12,500, while the threshold at which you pay a higher rate of income tax is set to rise from £46,350 to £50,000 from...
Latest tribunal statistics
The Ministry of Justice has recently published the quarterly tribunal statistics for the period between April to June 2018 which continue to show significant growth since the abolition of tribunal fees in July 2017. The figures are as follows: The number of single...
Should emails sent whilst commuting count as part of the working day?
Catch any train leaving at a designated peak time and you’ll be guaranteed to see people tapping away on their laptops, presumably doing office work. A study undertaken by the University of the West of England concluded that since access to wi-fi on trains has...
Just 6% of UK work traditional 9am-5pm hours
A YouGov survey undertaken at the end of last year found that two thirds (66%) of Brits preferred to start work earlier than the ‘traditional’ 9am-5pm hours. When asked if employees were given a preference on the start and end times of their 8-hour shift, only 14%...