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For those businesses that close over the Christmas period, employers will need to put in place arrangements requiring employees to take annual leave at that time. Provided that there is no agreement to the contrary, employers can allocate leave to a...

Employers had a legal obligation, to ensure workers received 24 hours uninterrupted rest time away from work each week, within each 7 day period that they worked or 48 hours within each 14 day period worked (Working Time Regulations 1998). This was subject to...

The Pensions Regulator, plan to prosecute a bus company, for wilfully failing to comply with their legal obligations under automatic enrolment. It is alleged that Stotts Tours (Oldham) Limited, deliberately failed to enrol its 36 staff into a pension scheme. This is...

With the implementation of the new data protection rules on 25 May 2018, small businesses are likely to see an increase in the £35 data protection fee currently paid to the ICO. A decision is expected before 1 April 2018.

The living wage for over 25s - will be set at £7.83 per hour from next April. This is higher than the current £7.50 national living wage and is expected to deliver a wage increase for two million people. 21- to 24-year-olds will see the minimum wage increased...

The Criminal Finances Act came into force on 30th September 2017.Under the Act, businesses could be criminally liable for the actions of employees who assist tax evasion by others acting in the capacity of an associated person, for example agents, contractors and...

The new Trade Secrets Act comes into force on 9th June 2018. However, it is unsure with Brexit to what extent the UK will adopt this directive, if at all.  It does raise the question though, of how businesses protect their trade secrets and if they want to...

Tribunal Fees RefundThe government has announced its fees refund scheme.  In short, all fees will be repaid along with interest of 0.5%. Criminal Finances Act 2017 The new corporate offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion came into...

If I had a penny for every time this was said to me I would be rich. It still surprises me that even with policies and procedures in place, companies still fail to tackle employee issues, choosing to log the issue in their head, rather than on the employees...