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On Tuesday this week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled on three test cases against engineering company AMEC, industrial services firm Hertel and maintenance company Bear Scotland. The long-awaited decision concerned whether overtime payments should be included in an employee’s holiday pay entitlements.
The most recent Employment Tribunal statistics were published earlier this month and a discernible, but perhaps not altogether unsurprising, trend is emerging: claim numbers have continued to fall since the introduction of the fee regime in July 2013. Between April - June 2014 Employment Tribunals across the UK received 70% fewer single claims than they did in the same period in 2013.
A new system of shared parental leave will be introduced on 1 October 2014 for eligible employees whose babies are due on or after 5 April 2015.
The new Flexible Working Regulations 2014 came into force on 30 June 2014. These Regulations will change the flexible working rules in the UK.
The Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has introduced an Early Conciliation service with effect from 6 April 2014. The Early Conciliation service has been introduced with the aim of trying to resolve disputes before they end up in an Employment Tribunal.
