Employment Tribunal Awards – Enforcement
An employment tribunal can be a very costly process in terms of time, money and stress but what’s even worse is if you go through all of that and despite winning your case you still don’t get paid the money …
Rennie Andoh
New employment leave and pay rights for parents in surrogacy
People who become parents through a surrogacy arrangement are not numerous (several hundred a year), but they are determined. And when they are so committed to being parents themselves, they have often been surprised that, to date, they had no rights to maternity …
New Leave and Pay Rights for Adopters and parents who have a child through surrogacy
Adoption leave and pay is changing and the changes are great news for those planning to adopt or expecting a child through surrogacy. As someone who considered adopting (but admittedly didn’t get much further than the thinking stage) I am …
Regulation of Modelling Agencies
We receive a number of complaints each year about modelling ‘agencies’ telling wannabe models that the best way to break into modelling is to pay for a portfolio. This is not strictly true, as model agencies will generally build a …
Ante-natal appointments
A couple of weeks ago, my partner and I had the good fortune to attend the 20-week screening scan for our second child and to learn that everything is progressing well. As with the same scan for our daughter, who …
Shared Parental Leave vs Additional Paternity Leave. What is the difference?
The new entitlement to shared parental leave and pay will come into effect for parents of babies who are due on or after 5 April 2015, or of children placed for adoption on or after that date. It will replace …
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills launches review of employment status
The UK labour market is one of the most flexible in the world with almost every kind of working arrangement possible. Individuals engaged in work also benefit from a wide range of employment rights. Statutory maternity pay and the right …
The rise in the National Minimum Wage rates
With changes to the National Minimum Wage rate coming into effect as of the 1st October 2014, we want to ensure that whether you are an employer or a worker you are aware of all of the facts. No matter …
Combining occupational maternity schemes with shared parental leave
With Shared Parental Leave coming into force for parents of babies due after 05 April 2015, we have been getting questions about how the new system interacts with existing maternity schemes offered by many employers. Given that over a third …
What are the employment rights for a fixed term contract?
Here at BIS, we are interested in your views on employment matters. In this post, we thought we’d explain some of the myths and misconceptions around fixed-term contracts and ask for your thoughts on some of the changes the government …