Managing employees/workers

New and updated

• Government White Paper to confirm skills-based immigration system

  Date:

  19 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The government will confirm today that it will introduce a skills-based immigration system once the UK leaves the EU.

• What should employers consider when publishing parental leave and pay policies?

  Date:

  19 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The government said in October that it plans to consult on the former employment relations minister Jo Swinson's bill to oblige large employers to publish their parental leave packages. Harry Abrams looks at what the measures might entail.

• Determining employment status

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Uber BV and others v Aslam and others, in which the Court of Appeal held that Uber drivers are workers.

• Cases on appeal

  Type:

  Law reports

  Updated to reflect that the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal in Uber BV and others v Aslam and others on 19 December 2018.

• Determining continuous employment

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to take into account the Government's announcement in its Good work plan, concerning the increase in the period that breaks continuity.

• No collective bargaining rights for self-employed Deliveroo riders, rules High Court

  Date:

  18 December 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In R (on the application of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) v the Central Arbitration Committee and another, the High Court held that Deliveroo riders are not workers and therefore are not automatically entitled to a collective bargaining arrangement.

• Abolition of the Swedish derogation relating to pay for agency workers

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The Swedish derogation, which gives employers the ability to pay agency workers less than their own workers in certain circumstances, is abolished.

• Increase in holiday reference period from 12 weeks to 52 weeks

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The reference period used for determining a week's pay when calculating holiday pay for workers with irregular hours increases from 12 weeks to 52 weeks.

• Increase to the length of time required for continuity of employment to be broken

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The Government intends to introduce legislation to extend the time required to break a period of continuous service from one week to four weeks.

• New right for workers to request a more stable contract

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  All workers will have the right to request a more predictable and stable contractual working pattern after 26 weeks' continuous service.