by webmaster | 25 Feb, 2021 | Latest changes, Pay and Benefits, Upcoming Changes
Increase to National Minimum Wage from April 2021 The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission as regards the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates. These will take effect from 1 April 2021. The NLW will...
by webmaster | 25 Feb, 2021 | Latest changes, Parental Leave, Pay and Benefits, Upcoming Changes
The Government has announced the new statutory pay rates to take effect from 4 April 2021. In summary: The rate of statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay and statutory shared parental pay, currently at £151.20 per week or 90% of the employee’s average weekly...
by webmaster | 27 Jun, 2019 | Industry Changes, Latest changes, Pay and Benefits, Working Hours and Annual Leave
The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has added a further complication to the holiday pay debate, holding that a group of police officers and civilian employees were entitled to backdated additional holiday pay to reflect overtime worked even though there was a...
by webmaster | 30 Apr, 2019 | Parental Leave, Pay and Benefits
A campaign by charity ‘The Smallest Things’ is currently underway to pursuade employers to extend maternity leave for parents with premature babies The support for the campaign comes as the BBC has this month become one of the first employers to change its parental...
by webmaster | 27 Nov, 2018 | Parental Leave, Pay and Benefits, Uncategorised
The Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 has received Royal Assent and is expected to come into force in 2020. The new Act will allow all employed parents who lose a child under the age of 18, or suffer a stillbirth from 24 weeks of pregnancy, a right to two...
by webmaster | 30 Oct, 2018 | Latest changes, Pay and Benefits, Tax
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...
