Hotels, restaurants, bars, pubs, sports, gaming, and leisure attractions, all heavily rely on casual and seasonal workers to ensure the business is appropriately resourced to respond to fluctuating demand throughout the year. As such, hospitality and leisure is the sector which is most likely to be impacted by the government’s upcoming changes to the law […]
The Employment Rights Bill 2024 (Bill), which had its first reading on 10 October, will transform the employment law landscape. In the first of a series of articles focussing on specific measures in the wide-ranging Bill, we start by looking at the impact of the removal of the qualifying period for unfair dismissal. Since the
At a glance Right to claim unfair dismissal will become a ‘day one’ right, subject to a statutory nine-month probationary period Parental leave and paternity leave become day one rights Stricter controls on ‘fire and re-hire’ will be introduced Flexible working will be more difficult for employers to refuse Right to guaranteed hours contract for
Continuing with our series of articles focussed on topical issues for employers in the Hospitality and Leisure sector, we are today looking at steps employers should be taking in advance of October 2024, when employers will be under a new duty to prevent sexual harassment. We will also consider the potential further strengthening of the
European Parliament approves law on more transparent and predictable employment for gig and other workers On 16 April the European Parliament voted to approve the Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive, which is aimed at strengthening the rights of workers and improving working conditions by promoting more transparent and predictable employment whilst ensuring labour market
The Government has today published ‘Good Work’, its response to the Taylor Review which investigated what impact modern working practices are having on the world of work. The Taylor Review published its report in July 2017 and made wide-ranging recommendations regarding reforms of the law on agency work, paid holiday, sick pay, flexible working and
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The Taylor Review’s final report on employment practices in the modern economy has been delivered to Government and published on 11 July 2017. The Review panel, chaired by Matthew Taylor, has made a number of recommendations for specific measures which the Review panel would like to see enacted as soon as possible, but also makes
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Today the Queen unveiled the Government’s legislative programme for the new two-year Parliament. This included a number of employment law reforms, aside from the impact of Brexit: There will be a new national policy on immigration. However, there is currently very little detail about what the new policy will be. The Conservative party manifesto included
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