Hethertons Solicitors is to extend a helping hand to local businesses as they prepare for major changes to employment law from April this year.

Presented by Hethertons Solicitors’ experienced employment law team, the talk will cover the new rights for workers and employees under the Government’s Good Work Plan, the introduction of Parental Bereavement Leave, rules surrounding employment post-Brexit and other proposed changes in the year ahead.

The Government has launched a new nationwide business campaign designed to support enterprise owners through the Brexit transitional phase and beyond.

As part of the campaign, a new Business Support site has been launched to “make it easier for businesses in England to find out about the full range of support available to them”.

The growth ambitions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) throughout the U.K. are left vulnerable, due to their worries surrounding the shortage of ‘suitable’ property.

In addition to the cost and process of moving...

The way employers calculate holiday pay for some workers is due to change this April with the introduction of a series of new regulations.

Working out holiday pay for employees that have fixed-hours is straightforward – if they are paid £500 for one week’s work, then they should be paid £500 per week when they’re on holiday.

According to the latest research, a quarter of employees believe that their company doesn’t deal with bullying and harassment in an appropriate manner.

The report published by the CIPD found that 15 per cent of workers have experienced bullying in the last three years, yet more than half of those people did not formally report it.

A recruitment business has been ordered to pay £10,890 after avoiding their automatic enrolment duties and misleading the Pensions Regulator (TPR).

Hertfordshire-based SKL Professional Recruitment Agency Ltd’s managing director Linus (known as Lee) Kadzere has been sentenced at Brighton Magistrates’ Court for wilfully failing to comply with the workplace pension rules and misleading TPR.

The Government has announced that from April 2020, parents who suffer the loss of a child under the age of 18, or a stillbirth, will be entitled to two weeks’ paid leave at the rate of statutory bereavement pay.

The change is expected to help around 10,000 families a year and, according to ministers, will be the most generous parental bereavement pay in the world.