Tax & Legislation news – Page 6
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ArticleDial A Ride to pay £12,500 in unfair dismissal and holiday pay compensation
Non-profit transport service Dial A Ride, the trading name of Blackburn and Darwen Community Transport, has been ordered to compensate a former driver in a dispute concerning unfair dismissal, employment status and holiday pay.The case concerned claimant A Russell, who worked as a driver from 2018, providing transport for vulnerable ...
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ArticleTipping Bill passes into law to make withholding tips illegal
The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill, or Tipping Bill, has received royal consent and passed into law, making the withholding of tips from staff illegal.The government predicted that this would protect more than two million employees, as well as allowing them to view an employer's tipping record. It also suggested ...
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ArticleSwift Lawyers to pay nearly £19,000 in unfair dismissal case
Law firm Swift Lawyers has been ordered to pay damages of £18,800 after an employment tribunal found that it had unfairly dismissed a pregnant paralegal.Farzana Yasin joined the firm in 2017 to work on cavity wall insulation claims. She had two consecutive maternity leave periods from October 2018, returned to ...
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ArticleGovernment launches review to boost employment prospects for autistic people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a government review designed to investigate boosting employment prospects for autistic people.Mel Stride MP, secretary of state for work and pensions, has appointed Sir Robert Buckland MP to lead the review, which aims to consider how the government can work with ...
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ArticleThe Oak Trust loses age discrimination and unfair dismissal case
A school manager at The Oak Trust in Oldham, Lancashire, who lost her job days before she was eligible for her pension, has won an age discrimination and unfair dismissal case.Suzanne Millar started working as a school business manager at Fir Bank Primary School, which is owned by the trust, ...
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ArticleSainsbury’s loses appeal to throw out equal pay bid
Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has had its appeal regarding store workers’ equal pay claims rejected by the Court of Appeal.The retailer argued that the 700 claims, submitted to the employment tribunal eight years ago, did not include the correct reference number from a certificate issued by the Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration ...
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ArticleEuropean Union adopts pay transparency legislation
The European Parliament, the legislative body of the European Union (EU), has voted to accept pay transparency legislation that calls for employers to disclose salaries and existing gender pay gaps.Under the rules, employers will base their pay structures and levels on gender-neutral criteria and include gender-neutral job evaluation and classification ...
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ArticleHina Belitz: Do Parliament’s legislative proposals do enough to enhance women’s rights in the workplace?
With the growth of flexible working and the narrowing - albeit slowly - of the gender pay gap, it seems like we are on the right trajectory for all members of society, particularly women, to participate in the workforce actively and equally. This is supported by recent legislative proposals, which ...
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ArticleGovernment introduces law to protect seafarers’ pay
The UK government has implemented legislation designed to protect seafarers from receiving pay levels below the national minimum wage.The Seafarers’ Wages Act received Royal Assent on Friday 23 March, preventing firms from using legal loopholes to pay low wages to seafarers. This was introduced as part of the government’s nine-point ...
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ArticleHow will the Spring Budget 2023 impact pay, pensions and benefits?
Spring Budget 2023: Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivered his Spring Budget speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday 15 March. It included a number of key announcements that could impact employees' pay, pensions and benefits.Spring Budget 2023: Freeze on fuel duty for 12 monthsSpring Budget 2023: Pensions ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Tax agents given access to payroll benefits in kind
Spring Budget 2023: The government has announced that it will give tax agents access to payroll benefits in kind for employers.Through government provided IT systems, tax agents will be able to payroll benefits in kind on behalf of employers. This was introduced as part of a long-term strategy to simplify ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Freeze on fuel duty for 12 months
Spring Budget 2023: The government has frozen fuel duty for another 12 months, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt's speech to the House of Commons today (15 March 2023).Hunt told the Commons that he would extend the 5p per litre cut in duty on petrol and diesel and ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Pensions lifetime allowance scrapped
Spring Budget 2023: Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced in his Budget statement today (15 March 2023) that government will abolish the lifetime allowance for pensions.The lifetime allowance previously had a £1 million limit, which Hunt said he had been called upon to increase as part of his economic ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: 30 hours free childcare for under-threes
Spring Budget 2023: The government has introduced 30 hours of free childcare for parents with children under the age of three, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt's statement to the House of Commons today (15 March 2023).Only applicable to households where parents are working more than 16 hours ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Tax-free pensions allowance up by 50%
Spring Budget 2023: In his Budget address to the House of Commons today (15 March 2023), Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt addressed the issue of unpredictable pension tax charges causing employees to leave work, particularly within the NHS.The government has therefore increased the pensions annual tax free allowance by ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Government to focus on mental health and musculoskeletal issues at work
Spring Budget 2023: In addition to introducing support for disabled people and those unable to work due to long-term sickness absence, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has pledged government support for those forced to leave work due to mental health and musculoskeletal issues.In his Budget statement today (15 March ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Scheme launches to help disabled people to access work and support
Spring Budget 2023: Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has introduced a government white paper on disability workplace reform, as part of an aim to address the two million people who are economically inactive due to disability or long-term sickness.In his Spring Budget statement today (15 March 2023), Hunt noted ...
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ArticleSpring Budget 2023: Government to raise corporation tax to 25% as planned
Spring Budget 2023: Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced in his address to the House of Commons today (15 March 2023), that government will raise corporation tax for business from 19% to 25%.Organisations which make a profit of more than £250,000 will pay 25% tax on their profits ...
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ArticleBlack Pearl Pubs to pay £1,700 in tax-related unfair dismissal case
Glasgow business Black Pearl Pub has been ordered to pay a former employee more than £1,700 after an employment tribunal ruled she had been unfairly dismissed.The employee, known as B Storrie, had worked at the bar The Montford for more than a year but never received a contract outlining her ...
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ArticleTribunal rules Defence Science and Technology Laboratory engineer unfairly dismissed
An employment tribunal ruled that a mechanical engineer working for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, who suspended himself from work while he experienced health concerns, was unfairly dismissed.Ian Drury was employed by the executive agency of the Ministry of Defence from July 1982, until he was dismissed for gross ...