03/04/2017 17.5m full-time workers aged 25 and over benefited from an inflation-busting 30p per hour pay rise from 1 April, when the National Living Wage was increased to £7.50.  Around 200,000 workers aged 21 to 24 years also received their

27/02/2017. 96% of small and medium enterprises that hire an apprentice derive at least one business benefit from it, reveals research carried out by the Dept for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in support of a new campaign that is

21/02/2017 Failure to pay £134,800 to 11,858 employees makes Debenhams Retail plc by far the most prolific offender among 359 businesses who have been ’named and shamed’ by the Dept for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for failing to pay

13/02/2017. New employers, who are due to become subject to automatic enrolment duties during 2017 and are known as ‘post-staging employers’, will benefit from draft legislation that provides certainty about when AE duties apply to new employers outside the AE

Self-Employed’ Plumber Entitled to Basic Workers Rights (UK) 13/02/2017 The Court of Appeal became the most senior court to take the worker’s viewpoint in a ‘flexible workforce’ dispute when it agreed with an Employment Tribunal ruling that a self-employed plumber