Category: Employment law

The Government has announced an additional bank holiday on 8 May 2023, to celebrate the King’s Coronation. This means that there will be three bank holidays in May 2023. Employers need to look at how they will approach the additional bank holiday. This will be determined to some extent by the wording in employees’ contracts of employment. For example, where the contract entitles employees to take leave on “all bank and public holidays”, the employer will be required to grant the extra day as leave. Even if the employer is…

In McQueen v General Optical Council, the EAT explored an issue that is familiar to a number of employers: the difficult question as to when misbehaviour/poor conduct is claimed to be linked to a disability. The Claimant had a number of conditions amounting to disabilities (described by the EAT as dyslexia, symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome, neurodiversity and left-sided hearing loss). It was accepted that he was a disabled person within the meaning of the Equality Act 2010. The appeal issue revolved around two “meltdown” incidents. In the first, the Claimant…

This is more commonly referred to as the revocation of retained EU law and this applies to EU law that was incorporated into UK law as a result of Brexit. If the proposal goes ahead as planned, government departments will have until the end of the year to decide which EU retained laws should expire and which should be kept. This has a potential impact on areas including working time, TUPE, agency workers and fixed-term contract, and much more, so watch this space! Logic tells me that surely, we wouldn’t…

The additional bank holiday has been permitted by the UK Government, and under UK employment law, employers therefore do not have to grant the day as annual leave. It does not form an additional holiday entitlement to the 5.6 weeks’ annual leave awarded to employees under the Working Time Regulations 1998 The wording of employees’ contracts of employment will determine whether employers should allow staff to take an additional day off. Contracts which refer to the right to take “all public or bank holidays”, for example, may mean you have…

The minimum wage rates for all age groups have increased significantly this year, so please make sure that you have implemented these changes from 1st April and don’t have anyone that falls below these rates on your payroll.             Get in touch to see how we can help you. You can book your FREE 15 minute consultation with a member of the Meraki HR team here.…

There are plans to change duration from 24 / 36 months to 6 months with more pressure to secure vacancy and switch into sponsorship. Student Dependants – Limit those who can qualify as dependants of students: Only allow those that are dependent on students following a two year + post-graduate programme and PhD’s UK-India Young Professionals Scheme A scheme similar to the current Youth Mobility Scheme is to be introduced for Indian & British citizens: It will allow 3,000 citizens between the ages of 18 and 30 to work and…