Sector add-ons

New and updated

• Remuneration: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on FCA final rules and guidance on risk management for consumer credit firms, effective from 1 October 2018.

• Assaults on NHS staff increase 10% in a year

  Date:

  17 April 2018

  Type:

  News

  Physical assaults on NHS staff in England rose by 9.7% compared to 2015/16, according to new figures published today.

• Basic pay and benefits: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the recently agreed new national pay scale, effective from 1 April 2018, and the revised pay spine to come into effect on 1 April 2019.

• National Joint Council for Local Government Services pay spine

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect the recently agreed new national pay scale, effective from 1 April 2018.

• Financial services regulation: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on two FCA consultations, and the new guidelines on personal recommendations, effective from 23 February 2018.

• The national minimum wage: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Additional information on the law on the national minimum wage for local authority employers, including "sleeping in" duties. To be read in conjunction with the general information on the law on the national minimum wage.

• NHS pay deal of 6.5-29% to be offered without holiday loss

  Date:

  21 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  More than a million nurses and other NHS staff in England will be offered a three-year pay deal worth between 6.5% and 29% in an end to years of pay restraint.

• Nine in 10 NHS trusts plan to use apprenticeship levy funds

  Date:

  19 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  Almost all NHS trusts in England plan to use their apprenticeship levy training fund, but would like more flexibility over how it could be spent.

• Whistleblowers protected when applying for NHS jobs

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to include a reference to the draft Employment Rights Act 1996 (NHS Recruitment - Protected Disclosure) Regulations 2018.

• Gender representation objective for boards of Scottish public authorities takes effect

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The boards of specified public authorities in Scotland are under a new requirement to act with a view to achieving the "gender representation objective" when making appointments to non-executive board positions.