Employment law manual

Accessible and constantly updated guidance on employment law, tailored to the needs of the HR professional.

This tool:

Covers the entire employment lifecycle from recruitment and selection through to termination of employment.
Provides links to additional resources on each subject.
Alerts readers to forthcoming changes.

New and updated

Basic pay and benefits

Updated to include revised advisory fuel rates, effective from 1 March 2020.
Human rights

Updated to include information on Q v Secretary of State for Justice, in which the EAT considered art.8 rights in the context of an unfair dismissal claim.
Disability discrimination

Updated to include information on London Borough of Hackney v Oksuzoglu, in which the EAT considered if a one-off act is capable of amounting to a PCP for the purposes of the duty to make adjustments.
Sex discrimination

Updated to include information on Walker v Wallem Shipmanagement Ltd and another, in which the EAT considered the territorial scope of the Equality Act 2010 in relation to offshore work.
Employing foreign nationals

Updated to reflect the Government's policy statement, which it published on 19 February 2020, on the immigration system to apply from 1 January 2021, and the introduction of the global talent visa from 20 February 2020.
The national minimum wage

Updated to reflect the Government's response to its consultation on salaried hours work and the exemption from penalties for underpayments resulting from the operation of a salary-sacrifice scheme.
Pay and benefits: key differences in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Updated to include information about Scottish income tax rates and bands for 2020/21.
Agency workers

Updated to include information on a change to the application of the IR35 reforms in the private sector.
Pay As You Earn

Updated to include information about increases to national insurance thresholds, from 6 April 2020, and the Government's 7 February 2020 announcement concerning the effective date of IR35 reforms.
Shared parental pay

Updated to reflect that draft Regulations to provide for statutory parental bereavement pay have been laid before Parliament.

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