Are you prepared? The Holiday Pay Time bomb Do you calculate your holiday pay correctly? Are you prepared for the risk of potential claims? Miscalculated holiday pay could be expensive. John Lewis paid out £40million to staff in relation to incorrectly calculated holiday pay. The CBI believes that backdated holiday...

The Equality Act 2010 (Equal Pay Audits) Regulations 2014 will come into force on 1 October 2014. Under the 2014 Regulations, Employment Tribunals will be obliged to order employers who are found to have breached the equal pay provisions of the Equality Act 2010 (in respect of claims brought on...

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has leapt up seven places in the Kanzleimonitor.de rankings for 2016/17 coming in at seventeenth place, establishing itself among Germany’s top business law firms. On behalf of the Federal Association of In-house Counsel, more than 5,000 in-house counsel from 950 companies in Germany are regularly...

Recent amendments to the Companies Act and Act 27/2014, of 27 November, on Corporate Income Tax, reopen the debate on the presence of senior executives in a company’s governance body. Recent amendments to the Companies Act and Act 27/2014, of 27 November, on Corporate Income Tax (the “ Tax Act“...

The DWP has published further details of minimum governance standards and charges restrictions that will apply to defined contribution (DC) occupational schemes from April 2015. These requirements overlap with the Pensions Regulator’s (TPR’s) requirements on DC governance, which will be updated to reflect the new regime. The increased focus on...

Please find below our key points arising from recent developments for employers this November. Holiday pay – take action now The hot topic of the month has been the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”)’s decision in the holiday pay cases (see here). Whilst the decision potentially limits the scope of historic...

Further to yesterday’s Tweets from UNISON that the Employment Tribunal (“ET”) had issued its decision in the case of Lock v British Gas Trading Limited (see our alert here), we now have a copy of that decision (see here). The key message from this decision is that to accord with...

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act (“SBEE Act”) received royal assent last week, incorporating a late amendment requiring the mandatory reporting of gender pay information by larger companies. Whilst the Government has always had the power to introduce secondary legislation compelling large employers to publish information showing whether there...

A preparatory school forced to close due to falling pupil numbers has been told by the EAT that it should have collectively consulted over staff redundancies when the closure of the school was identified as necessary if pupil numbers didn’t increase. The trigger point was when the provisional decision was...