Legislation Updates - HR Inner Circle

March 6, 2025

The Latest Employment Rights Bill Consultation Responses

Earlier this week the Government published its responses to its consultations on various aspects of the Employment Rights Bill: on strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and

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March 3, 2025

No Legal Right to Disconnect: Government U-Turn on Work-Life Balance Plan

Reports suggest ministers are set to scrap plans for a legal right to ‘switch off’ outside work hours. The proposal, a key element of Sir Keir Starmer’s “New Deal for Working

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February 5, 2025

Unlawful deductions from wages – no longer a limited risk?

Hidden within the Watford employment tribunal’s judgment in last month’s employment status case of Afshar and others v Addison Lee was an interesting – and, for employers, worrying – conclusion

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January 8, 2025

Definitely Maybe: UK Employment Law Changes in 2025

Oasis re-forming was one of the key ‘will they; won’t they’ stories of 2024. A clear case of ‘definitely maybe’ was resolved with the announcement of a raft of gigs

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October 31, 2024

Zero-hours Workers – guaranteed hours and other measures

This part of the Employment Rights Bill is a minefield. The government’s aim is to create some kind of certainty and stability for zero-hours workers, and to prevent exploitative contracts.

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October 16, 2024

Employment Rights Bill: Spotlight on fire and rehire

The Employment Rights Bill, published on 10th October, introduces significant changes across a wide-range of employment practices. In this week’s blog, we explore the Bill’s proposals for fire and rehire

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October 11, 2024

Key Provisions of the Employment Rights Bill

The much-anticipated Employment Rights Bill was published earlier today. The second reading is due to take place on 21st October. We don’t know the commencement date for any of this

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August 20, 2024

Taking to the stage and waiting in the wings – Summer and Autumn Employment Law Changes

We all know that major changes are afoot for employment law in the next few months. The government has promised to produce a draft Employment Rights Bill by the end

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August 5, 2024

Allocation of Tips

The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2024 SI 2024/829 and the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (Code of Practice on Fair and Transparent Distribution

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July 17, 2024

The King’s Speech 2024

This morning’s King’s Speech unveiled Labour’s legislative agenda for their early months in government. The speech itself briefly mentioned plans to “ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights”. But it’s

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March 26, 2024

2024 Rate Increases

We have collated all the upcoming rate changes into one handy table, including the implementation dates (which vary between 1st-7th April). You can download the full table here: https://hrinnercircle.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rates-Increase-April-2024-HRIC.pdf

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March 25, 2024

Updated Vento Bands

The 2024 annual update to the Vento guidelines has been published. If an employee wins a discrimination claim, the employment tribunal will award compensation for injury to feelings. This sum is

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