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Lowless Commercial Employment department deals with:
- Absence Management
- Advocacy & Professional Support
- 24 hour unlimited advice Line
- Compromise Agreements
- Contracts and Staff Handbooks
- Disciplinary Matters
- Discrimination and Harassment
- Employment Mediation
- Employment Tribunal Claims
- Family Friendly Rights
- Grievances
- Managing Capability/Poor Performance
- Mergers and Acquisitions and TUPE
- Personnel Solutions
- Redundancy
- Training
From August 2009 Lowless Commercial in association with Pembrokeshire Tourism will be offering free weekly breakfast meetings in our Pembroke office for employers and HR managers.
Anyone interested in signing up for the event can click here and complete the form or contact Pembrokeshire Tourism.
Maximum limit of a week's pay to be increased on 1 October 2009 |
The Government announced in the 2009 Budget (see our archived newsletter) that it intended to increase the weekly limit used to calculate statutory redundancy pay from £350 to £380. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has confirmed that the maximum limit of a week's pay will be increased from 1 October 2009.
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New Health and Safety Strategy published |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a new health and safety strategy for Great Britain. The Strategy sets out the HSE's goals for reducing the number of work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses.
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Failure to pay statutory holiday pay is deduction from wages |
In the case of HM Revenue & Customs v Stringer and others, the House of Lords held that workers can bring claims for statutory holiday pay under the deduction from wages provisions of employment legislation. This means that workers might be able to recover holiday pay going back several years, which is not possible under regulation the Working Time Regulations.
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