In its response to its consultation on the collective redundancy rules, the Government has announced that the current 90-day minimum consultation period where employers are proposing to make 100 or more redundancies at one establishment will be reduced to 45 days. The Government believes that this will give businesses the flexibility to respond to changing[…]
The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012 SI 2012/3007 has been published. The Order will increase the limits on certain employment tribunal awards and other amounts payable under employment legislation from 1 February 2013. The notable changes are: • the limit on the amount of a week’s pay for the purposes of calculating, among[…]
The Government has responded to its consultation on employee ownership which allows employees to give up some employment rights, such as unfair dismissal, in return for shares. The Government intends to implement the policy, despite 92 per cent of respondents viewing the plans in a negative or mixed way. Among other things, the Government response[…]