The Modern Slavery Act 2015 consolidates and codifies the law on modern slavery. The key provision in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 for UK employers is section 54, which requires large commercial organisations to prepare a slavery and human trafficking statement for each financial year.
The end of September is a key cut-off point for large employers required to publish their first modern slavery statement.
A fivefold rise in the number of modern slavery reports shows that efforts to highlight the issue are working, according...
As the result of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU sank in during July, employers began looking...
Remedies under the Modern Slavery Act should be extended to allow employment tribunals to award compensation to the victims of...
Today, the duty on large employers to publish a slavery and human trafficking statement comes into force.
Under section 54...
The national living wage – the new minimum wage for workers aged 25 and over – comes into force on...
Many employers will have been affected by the severe storms over recent weeks. The top FAQ on XpertHR in December...
FAQs on the cancellation of annual leave were among the most popular in November, in our monthly round up.
If...
From overtime and holiday pay to safety helmets for Sikhs, we round up the most popular HR questions in October 2015.
The regulations laying out large employers’ responsibilities to publish modern slavery statements every year come into force today, 29 October...
XpertHR’s webinar An A to Z of legal changes 2015/16 took employers through recent and upcoming developments in employment law....
Modern slavery statements were the subject of the most popular FAQ in September in our monthly round up of the...
Every October brings new employment law changes, and 2015 is certainly no different. While the Government’s proposals to toughen the...
An employment tribunal has awarded a domestic servant who brought one of the UK’s first claims for caste discrimination £184,000...
Employers will soon be required to publish a modern slavery statement setting out how they protect against slavery in their...
