Autumn is well and truly upon us – and with autumn, come employment law updates.
Eversheds has a great summary of upcoming changes (and unlike myself, they’re solicitors).
Perhaps the one update which everyone’s aware of is that the National Minimum Wage is increasing.
Fit for Work is now fully operational – this is a service to which employers can refer workers who have been off sick after an absence of 4 weeks or more, if the workers GPs have not already done so.
Personnel Today reports that employers with an annual turnover of £36 million or more will have to show how they’re going about preventing modern slavery anywhere in their business or along their supply chain. Eversheds guidance is here.
There’s now a ban on smoking in private cars with a passenger who is under 18. Will this be enforceable? What might get in the way of enforcing the ban?
Turban-wearing Sikhs will no longer have to wear safety helmets at construction sites. There are a few exceptions to this.
