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Demystifying the apprenticeship levy

Demystifying the apprenticeship levy   Rebecca Buck, October 18, 2017 Recommendations for what businesses and the government can do to help employers realise the levy’s potential Recent figures about the widespread lack of understanding of…


Trade Unionists Against the EU

Trade Unionists Against the EU TUAEU believes that the time is right to offer the peoples of Britain an alternative view of Europe outside of the EU. The working peoples of Europe are clearly not…


UK statutory sick pay is ‘inadequate’

UK statutory sick pay is ‘inadequate’ By Ashleigh Wight on 25 Jan 2018 in Health and safety, Sick pay   Statutory sick pay arrangements in the UK are in breach of legal obligations under the European…






Cap on English NHS staff pay to be scrapped

Cap on English NHS staff pay to be scrapped Beckett Frith, HR Magazine October 12, 2017 The move follows a letter delivered to chancellor Philip Hammond last month signed by 14 unions The health secretary…


Under-25s struggling because of lower pay

Under-25s struggling because of lower pay By Beckett Frith,  HR Magazine October 13, 2017 Under-25s are missing out on between £820 and £6,300 a year because they are not entitled to the National Living Wage…


Legal lowdown: Employees’ right to privacy

The case Bărbulescu v Romania shows the need to strike a fair balance between employees’ privacy and a company’s access to information The important recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examines…