October employment law changes: key XpertHR resources
XpertHR rounds up key content on employment law changes that came into force on 1 October 2015. The changes include the extension of the exemption from wearing a safety helmet for Sikhs, the ban on smoking in cars carrying children, the annual increase in the national minimum wage rates and the removal of the employment tribunal power to make wider recommendations.
October 2015 employment law changes We discuss the employment law changes that come into force in October.
Also, the new requirement for large employers to publish an annual modern slavery statement is expected to be introduced in October.
Sikhs and the wearing of safety helmets
- Policies and documents > Health and safety policy statement
- Policies and documents > Personal protective equipment policy and procedure
- Policies and documents > Work equipment assessment record
- FAQs > Are Sikhs working on construction sites required to wear safety helmets?
- Employment law manual > Equality and human rights > Religion or belief discrimination > Sikhs and the wearing of safety helmets
Ban on smoking in cars carrying children
- Policies and documents > Company car policy
- Policies and documents > Policy on travel by car
- Policies and documents > Smoking policy
- FAQs > Where an employer provides company cars to its employees, is it obliged to make the cars no-smoking areas under the smoke-free legislation?
- How to > How to comply with the smoke-free legislation
National minimum wage increase
- Policies and documents > Letter advising a worker of a pay increase because of a rise in the rate of the national minimum wage
- Policies and documents > Letter providing national minimum wage statement
- Statutory rates > National minimum wage
- FAQs > What is the current rate for the national minimum wage?
- FAQs > What rate of the national minimum wage is payable when 1 October 2015 falls within a worker's pay reference period?
- Employment law manual > National minimum wage > Rate of the national minimum wage
- How to > How to review your organisation's pay rates against the national minimum wage
Employment tribunals lose power to make wider recommendations
- FAQs > What powers do employment tribunals have under the Equality Act 2010 to make recommendations to employers?
- Employment law manual > Discrimination remedies and penalties > Recommendations
Modern slavery statements
- Hot topics > Modern slavery statements
- News > Mandatory annual modern slavery statement required by large employers
- FAQs > What duties will employers have under the "transparency in supply chains" provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015?
