Sector add-ons

New and updated

• Podcast: Enhancing shared parental pay

  Date:

  22 June 2018

  Type:

  Audio and video

  We discuss the recent decision of Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and another, in which the EAT considered the question of whether or not employers are required to enhance statutory shared parental pay where maternity pay is enhanced.

• IR35 changes have 'seriously damaged' the NHS

  Date:

  22 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Changes to self-employment tax rules have "seriously damaged" the NHS and the public sector, according to research by the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) and the CIPD.

• Employing foreign nationals: health (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 July 2018, doctors and nurses are removed from the cap on tier 2 visas.

• Employing foreign nationals: health (Scotland)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 July 2018, doctors and nurses are removed from the cap on tier 2 visas.

• Doctors and nurses to be excluded from Tier 2 visa cap

  Date:

  14 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  NHS doctors and nurses will be excluded from restrictions to the number of visas granted to skilled non-EU migrant workers under plans expected to be announced tomorrow (15 June).

• The consequences of trade union recognition: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to refer to government guidance on the requirement to publish facility time and the government website on which the data must be published.

• Trade union facility time off reporting requirement for public sector takes effect

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to include government guidance on the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017.

• Jeremy Hunt vows to close NHS doctors gender pay gap

  Date:

  29 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched a review into how NHS doctors are paid in a bid to close the 15% gender pay gap that exists.

• Whistleblowing: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the European Commission's proposed Directive to strengthen whistleblower protection.

• Financial services regulation: financial services

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the FCA policy statement and second consultation paper, which address some of the concerns identified in the FCA asset management market study.