United Kingdom

New and Updated

• Type:

  International

  UK: Pay and benefits

  Updated to reflect changes to national minimum wage rates, income tax and national insurance thresholds and the rate of statutory sick pay, from April 2021.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Employee rights

  Updated to include information on the changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and to reflect the 2021/22 rates of statutory maternity pay, shared parental pay, and paternity pay.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Contracts of employment

  Updated to reflect the 2021/22 employment tribunal compensation limit for failure to provide a written statement of terms of employment.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Health and safety

  Updated to reflect the 2021/22 industrial injuries disablement benefit rate.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Termination of employment

  Updated to reflect the 2021/22 statutory rates for calculating redundancy pay and compensation for unfair dismissal.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Updates - key employment law developments

  Updated to reflect that protection against detrimental treatment on health and safety grounds will be extended to cover workers.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Industrial relations

  Updated to reflect that employees in the UK are no longer able to seek the establishment of European Works Councils.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Recruitment and selection

  Updated to reflect changes to the rights of EEA and Swiss nationals to live and work in the UK from January 1, 2021.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Useful online resources

  Enhanced to include information on official data services.

• Type:

  International

  UK: Equal opportunities

  Updated to reflect an increase to the top band of compensation for injury to feelings in a discrimination claim.