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Autumn Budget 2018 - A summary for employers
In the Autumn Budget 2018 the Chancellor announced a number of changes affecting employers:
Minimum Wage Increase
From April...
Royal British Legion urges vigilance against counterfeit merchandise threat
The Intellectual Property Office and The Royal British Legion have announced that they are working in partnership with City of London...
Can public bodies be required to keep their promises?
As a general principle, yes they can. Where a public body promises to do something and a person has reasonably relied on that...
GMPs must be equalised, with DB schemes facing a £15 billion bill
The High Court ruled on Friday that pensions provided to members of the Lloyds Bank pension scheme who had contracted out of the State...
#selfieleave - Will shared parental leave be extended to self employed parents?
The House of Commons is considering a bill to extend shared parental leave to parents who are self employed.
A demonstration took...
Youtube CEO rallies creators against EU copyright reforms
Youtube's CEO Susan Wojcicki has urged content creators to campaign against the controversial Copyright Directive proposed by the...
Car ads told to go gently...
"Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light." So said Dylan Thomas. And Ford, who recently used a...
Immigration Health Surcharge to double in December
In February 2018 the Government announced plans to increase the immigration health surcharge. The surcharge is payable by all migrants...
Public procurement - maintenance of automatic suspension on contract award
There seem to have been a number of cases recently in which it has been successfully argued that the automatic suspension should stay in...
Another interesting Monckton article on moderation in public procurement
If you haven't already read the case and/or this Monckton Chambers note, then I advise doing so.
The case focuses on the role of...
CIPFA to tighten prudential code as council commercial property investment accelerates
It looks like the door is gradually being closed on local authorities borrowing to invest in commercial property. The MHCLG issued...
Ground rent on new build leases to be capped at £10.00 p.a. under new government plans
The consultation, announced by Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP on 14 October, will run from 15 October until 26th...
Large public sector procurement bodies join forces to support suppliers
An interesting public procurement development and hopefully one which will result in transformative and positive change.
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The UK’s largest public sector buying organisation, YPO, is partnering with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and the Yorkshire and Humber...…
Fee-free employment tribunal claims still rising
Figures just reported show the number of Employment Tribunal claims are rising fast since the fee regime was repealed in July 2017.
Time to tackle the ethnicity pay gap
A consultation has been initiated by the Government to determine whether the mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap figures would help...
Bakery who refused to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage is not discriminatory
The Supreme Court have ruled that the refusal by Ashers bakery to make a cake with a slogan, "Support gay marriage" was not...
World Mental Health Day - support at work
10 October 2018 is World Mental Health Day and a time for us all to take a moment to think about our own mental health and that of those...
Minimum pay - Amazon starts the big business battle from the bottom
Amazon has announced an overhaul of its minimum hourly pay rates in the USA and UK. This means a significant pay rise for some workers,...
Do the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 apply to the grant of a right to use land for advertising purposes?
On the 28th September the High Court handed down its judgment in the case of Ocean Outdoor UK Limited v The London Borough of Hammersmith...
A new funding stream for local authority housing companies?
One of the constraints on local authorities financing new council housing has been the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap....
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