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Development	Implementation date
Graduate immigration route opens	1 July 2021
Protection from detriment in health and safety cases extends to workers	31 May 2021
Protection of termination payments for furloughed employees extended	30 April 2021
Reform to intermediaries legislation (IR35) extended to private sector	6 April 2021
Employment tribunal award limits increase	6 April 2021
Pensions auto-enrolment qualifying earnings upper limit increases	6 April 2021
Lower earnings limit for national insurance contributions frozen	6 April 2021
State pension rates increase	6 April 2021
HMRC given power to recover tax from parties other than employer in off-payroll working arrangements	6 April 2021
Statutory sick pay rises	6 April 2021
Statutory maternity pay and other family-related statutory pay rates increase	4 April 2021
National minimum wage rises take effect	1 April 2021
Extension of national minimum wage record keeping provisions	1 April 2021
List of Welsh authorities subject to public sector equality duty expands	1 April 2021
Employees on furlough scheme extension entitled to statutory payments based on normal pay	31 March 2021
Cap on exit payments for public-sector workers removed	12 February 2021
New system of immigration post-Brexit comes into effect	1 January 2021
Freedom of movement for EU nationals in UK comes to an end	1 January 2021
Technical amendments to employment law following the UK's exit from the EU take effect	31 December 2020
Court of Appeal can diverge from retained EU case law post-Brexit	31 December 2020
Period of self-isolation reduced to 10 days	14 December 2020
Acas early conciliation period is extended from one month to six weeks	1 December 2020
Youth cautions and multiple convictions no longer automatically disclosed under changes to DBS filtering rules	28 November 2020
Employees on extended furlough scheme entitled to statutory payments based on normal pay	18 November 2020
Business closures or restrictions on business activities due to coronavirus take effect	5 November 2020
Public-sector exit payments capped	4 November 2020
Employment tribunal procedural rules relaxed to tackle claims backlog	8 October 2020
Fine for employers that allow workers who have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) to attend workplace introduced	28 September 2020
Right to statutory sick pay when self-isolating prior to hospital admission introduced	26 August 2020
Right to statutory sick pay for 10-day period of self-isolation due to coronavirus takes effect	5 August 2020
Furloughed employees entitled to statutory notice and redundancy payments based on normal pay	31 July 2020
Right to statutory sick pay when self-isolating due to contact with coronavirus introduced	28 May 2020
Recovery of statutory sick pay for coronavirus cases introduced	26 May 2020
Rules on calculating normal weekly earnings for family-related benefits for those who are furloughed introduced	25 April 2020
Entitlement to statutory sick pay for those who are "shielding" introduced	16 April 2020
Increase in holiday reference period from 12 weeks to 52 weeks	6 April 2020
Statutory sick pay rises	6 April 2020
More flexibility in national minimum wage rules for salaried hours work	6 April 2020
Employment tribunal award limits increase	6 April 2020
Change to tax treatment of termination payments above £30,000 introduced	6 April 2020
Parental bereavement leave rights take effect	6 April 2020
Abolition of the Swedish derogation relating to pay for agency workers	6 April 2020
Reduction to threshold for a request to set up information and consultation arrangements	6 April 2020
Extension of the right to a written statement to all workers	6 April 2020
Lower earnings limit for national insurance contributions increases	6 April 2020
Statutory maternity pay and other family-related statutory pay rates increase	5 April 2020
National minimum wage rises	1 April 2020
Right to carry over statutory annual leave for two years introduced	26 March 2020
Mandatory business closures due to coronavirus take effect	26 March 2020
Coronavirus Act comes into force	25 March 2020

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