The Queen’s Speech has confirmed several anticipated changes for parental leave and employment law.
The Government intends to offer parents more flexibility over care arrangements, while early reconciliation measures through Acas in employment disputes were also backed...
Clearer guidance over accruing holiday leave during a period of sickness has been given by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
In a recent judgment, the minimum allowance to be carried forward was confirmed as four weeks, as specified by the Working Time Directive (WTD)....
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Q An individual has been paid her Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) as a lump sum as her employment with the company has ceased. Due to an increase in SMP in April, should this individual have her SMP recalculated and a payment made to her as a payment after leaving?
A Yes, this is correct...
Additional Paternity Leave “has not been a success” according to coaching company Talking Talent.
Chris Parke, CEO of the firm, believes take-up is disappointingly low after finding just two out of 300 participants in its programme for new fathers planned to use...
Q We are a Payroll Bureau. A client has sent through instructions suggesting that an employee on sick leave should not receive any Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). They have provided me with a copy of the fit note and based upon the period of absence, as far as I can see, there is an entitlement to SSP...
Q An employee started a two-week period of paid annual leave. The first day they were away they fell and broke their leg and had to be repatriated back home. They have now just returned to work after four weeks and are asking to be paid Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for the time they were away from...
UK workers have one of the most generous statutory holiday provisions in the world, according to research from Mercer.
The findings show that Western European countries provide the highest amount of compulsory leave, compared to the Asia Pacific area.
However, despite...
More than 80 per cent of businesses are going beyond the statutory obligations for sick leave.
Research from Unum and Personnel Today has found that 67 per cent of employers will continue to financially support their employees for up to a year, even if statutory sick pay (SSP) has...
Payroll Alliance technical team answers payroll related questions, including overpayments, small employee gifts, seconded workers and holiday savings club
Q It has just been brought to my attention that one of our employees, who is in receipt of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), has gone on holiday to Canada. I seem to recall that one of the exceptions to the non-payment of SMP is that the employee is unable to leave the country as this will affect...
Katy Meves considers the current statutory scheme for adoption leave and pay.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he wants to speed up the adoption process after it was revealed that only 60 children under the age of one were adopted out of local authority care last year.
With the prospect of an increase in the number of adoptions, employers need to be aware of...
Less than a fifth of employees are aware of how much Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) they are entitled to, according to research from Aviva.
The findings revealed that a quarter of respondents believe that they would receive considerably more than the £81.60 currently available under...
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Statutory Maternity Pay
Q We have an employee who works as a cleaner and is currently on maternity leave. She has been employed by us on a part-time basis for three years. We are aware that she has two jobs and is in receipt of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) from another employer. As a goodwill...
Maternity leave should be abolished in order to encourage economic growth, according to David Cameron’s Strategy Director.
Steve Hilton made the suggestion to policy makers as a way of cutting back on employment legislation. However, his remarks have been hotly opposed by his colleagues...
Payroll Alliance technical team answers payroll related questions, including legal advice, small employer's relief and home working.
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Q Unfortunately, since the recession our business has not picked up. As a result we have had to make further staff reductions. This has led to more than 30 per cent of our workforce being made redundant. We would like to offer those affected the opportunity to take legal advice at...
Only one in 10 fathers plan to take more time off than the two weeks’ statutory allowance, due to the loss in earnings.
New fathers are not taking advantage of Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (ASPP)and leave arrangements, which came into force in April. ASPP offers less than a...
