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Shared Parental Leave
Coverage of shared parental leave, one of our main employment law changes, has picked up recently, not least thanks to our Minister and her husband blazing the trail with their childcare arrangements. It is an ambitious reform – it is …
Financial Penalties
Since the start of April 2014, Employment Tribunal judges are able to impose financial penalties on employers who have severely breached employment law. The main aim of financial penalties is to ensure compliance with employment law by penalising rogue employers. …
Whistleblowing update
Last month I blogged about whistleblowing law and how it offers a legal remedy to those who suffer a detriment as a result of raising a concern at work. I talked about the Call for Evidence that the Government ran last …
Flexible working – a conference report
Employers attending a BIS conference on flexible working in London yesterday heard from Jenny Willott, employment law Minister, and others on the business benefits of flexible working and case studies on the practical steps employers have taken to manage flexible …
Whistleblowing - what protection is there in employment law?
People rightly expect to be protected from suffering any mistreatment by their employer should they blow the whistle at work about a matter of genuine public concern. Employment law gives individuals who feel they have suffered mistreatment, as a result …
Progress on reforming employment law
Jenny Willott, the Minister for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs spoke recently at a seminar organised by the Westminster Employment Forum. She talked about changes to employment law, its impact so far and the next steps. She updated the audience …
Early Conciliation
Hello my name is Nick Morgan. I’m a policy advisor in Labour Market Directorate at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Over the past year I have been working with Acas to implement the Early Conciliation policy. I want …
Introducing our new blog
Hello I’m Jaee Samant and I am the Director of the Labour Market Directorate in the Department for Business (BIS). Welcome to our new blog. You may already know this but BIS stands for the Department for Business, Innovation and …