In the latest episode of our Employment podcast, we look at two cases relevant to employers looking to bring employees back to work.  The first concerns an employee dismissed because of ‘upset and friction’ caused by the way in which he was carrying out his health and safety responsibilities and whether that dismissal was automatically unfair because of the special protections around health and safety dismissals in the Employment Rights Act.  And the second is…

As an update to our recent post, the Home Office has now pushed back the date for the changes to Right to Work checks required by UK employers.  The new rules will now begin on 21 June rather than 18 May, as had previously been proposed. Please click here to read the update by James Perrott, Mayer Brown’s Head of Global Mobility for UK and Europe: Ending of Covid-19 adjustment to UK Right to Work …

Since March last year, due to Covid-19, the Home Office has allowed employers to check an employee’s immigration status in the UK by using scans or copies of documents instead of having to see the original documents.  From 17 May, this adjustment will cease and employers will once again be required to check original documents, unless they are able to use the Home Office on-line checking service, which is only available for migrant workers.  Read…

The pensions press has been abuzz with comment on the expanded range of powers given to the Pensions Regulator (“TPR“) by the Pension Schemes Act 2021 (the “Act“) which are expected to come into force in Autumn 2021.  These include imprisonment or unlimited fines for some offences, civil penalties of up to £1 million and enhanced information gathering powers with penalties for non-compliance.…

The government has set the automatic enrolment earning figures for the 2021/22 tax year as follows: Earnings trigger: £10,000 Qualifying earnings band: £6,240 – £50,270 The earnings trigger is the level of earnings that a jobholder must receive in order to be eligible for automatic enrolment. The level of the earnings trigger has remained unchanged since the 2014/15 tax year. The qualifying earnings band is the earnings in respect of which an employer must pay…