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    The Welfare Benefits Uprating Order 2014 SI 2014/147 has now been published. The Order sets the rates for statutory sick pay and statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay from April 2014. The changes that come into force on 6 April 2014 are: • an increase in statutory sick pay from £86.70 to £87.55, and •[…]

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    Can an employment tribunal decide that it is within the range of reasonable responses for an employer to dismiss an employee taking into account a final written warning when an appeal against it remained outstanding, without hearing evidence regarding the imposition of the warning? Yes, holds the EAT in Rooney v Dundee City Council The[…]

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    HM Revenue and Customs has issued a consultation on proposed changes to the tax system in order to tackle false self-employment – i.e. the use of employment businesses and intermediary companies to present employment situations as self-employment. The consultation follows the announcement made in the Autumn Statement. The proposed changes are intended to come into[…]

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    The Ministry of Justice has published ‘provisional management information’ showing employment tribunals’ receipts up to September 2013 – after the introduction of employment tribunal fees on 29 July 2013. The annual Employment Tribunals and EAT statistics for April to March 2012/13 have also been published as part of the quarterly (April to June 2013) statistics[…]

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