Making a flexible working request will become a ‘day-one’ right from 6 April 2024. Perhaps more significant than the penalties for failure to follow the statutory process are the risks to an employer of a discrimination claim or damage to recruitment and retention.
Read MoreThe Information Commissioner’s Office website now includes a tool for drafting and sending a subject access request to an organization. It is likely that employers will start to receive requests directly via this platform, although employees remain free to submit requests in other ways.
Read MoreWe examine the Supreme Court’s landmark October 2023 judgment on historic underpayment claims in Agnew, along with some important legislative changes tabled for 2024, including the legalization of rolled-up holiday pay for some workers.
Read MoreOn average, each employee in the UK took 5.7 days off due to sickness in 2022. The estimate of working days lost to UK employers due to sickness or injury reached a new high of 185.6 million over the course of the year.
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