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4. Employment Law Update
22nd April 2015
Marie Walsh & Caroline Acton

5. Today’s Session
TOPICS
Compensation Limits National Minimum Wage
ACAS Early Conciliation Holiday Pay
Fitness for Work Flexible Working
Whistleblowing Cases
Antenatal Appointments and
Adoption Leave
SPL

6. • 6 April 2015
• Unfair dismissal compensation - £76,574 to £78,335
• A Week’s Pay – £464 to £475
New Compensation Limits

7. • NMW Increased 1 October 2014:
- £6.31 to £6.50 (21 and over)
- £5.03 - £5.13 (18 to 20)
- £3.72 - £3.79 (under 18)
- £2.38 - £2.73 (Apprentice)
• NMW Penalty increased - £5,000 - £20,000
• Government Names & Shames
• Proposed increase further to NMW from £6.50 to £6.70
National Minimum Wage (NMW)

8. • 5th April 2015
• £138.18 – 139.58
• SMP
• SPP
• SAP
SMP/SPP/SAP

9. • Pre-claim
• Contact online or by phone
• Stop the clock
• Impact on claims?
- Q1 2014 to Q2 2014
- 22 % drop in claims
ACAS Early Conciliation

10. Holiday Pay
• British Airways plc –v- Williams and Ors 2012
• Lock –v- British Gas Trading Limited and Ors
• Bear Scotland

11. Shared Parental Leave
• New Legal entitlement – 1 December 2014
• Applies to babies due (or children placed for adoption) on or after 5 April
2015
• Opportunity to be flexible/share caring arrangements
• Leave calculated using mother’s entitlement to maternity/adoption leave
• Employees can:
 stop/start SPL
 return to work during periods of leave
• Maternity/Paternity/Adoption

12. Fitness For Work (FFW)
• New Health and Work Service
• Government Funded
• 4 weeks absence
• Phased introduction
• Update policies?

13. Flexible Working
• Extended to all employees – 30 June 2014
• 26 weeks continuous service
• Less prescriptive process
• Written request
• Application to be dealt with reasonably
• One request in any 12 month period

14. Antenatal appointments
• 1st October 2014 - Workers can accompany a pregnant woman
• “qualifying relationship”
• Two occasions – 6.5 hours each
• Unpaid

15. Adoption Leave
• 5th April 2015
• Day one right
• Statutory Adoption Pay is changing to come in line with SMP
• Also 5th April 2105 Paid time off for up to 5 Adoption Appointments for
main adopter.
• Secondary adopter unpaid time for up to 2 appointments

16. Parental Leave
• Distinct and separate to SPL
• Time off to look after child's welfare
• Normally unpaid
• Now extended from 5th April 2015 from aged 5 cap to 18

17. Cases
• Gallop v Newport City Council [2013] EWCA
• Game Retail Ltd v Laws UKEAT
• Karsent Kaltoft v Kommunemes Landsforening
• USDAW v Ethel Austin Ltd & Others (Woolworths case)

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