Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)

There will be an additional bank holiday in 2022 to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
Many employees will be entitled...

As more employees return to the workplace, employers may want to know what proportion of their workforce has had their...

The deadline for applications under the EU settlement scheme was 30 June 2021.
Where an EEA national is eligible to...

HM Treasury has confirmed that statutory and contractual notice periods will not be covered by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...

Topshop and Dorothy Perkins owner Arcadia Group has agreed to pay full salaries to staff facing redundancy, after it emerged...

Employers could be unwittingly breaking the law by calculating redundancy pay outs based on furlough pay, rather than an employees’...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was created at such speed that it created many unanswered questions. The government has...

Pending a review announced by chancellor Sajid Javid, reforms to the IR35 rules are due to be extended to the...

How should you calculate holiday pay for a term-time worker without regular hours?
A recent Court of Appeal decision, The...

If a witness in a disciplinary procedure wishes to remain anonymous, how can the employer balance their privacy against the...

When faced with the need to make redundancies, how should an employer decide which employees to select?
Redundancy exercises bring...

Many HR professionals will have spent months preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Now it is finally in...

New rules on the taxation of termination payments came into force in April 2018. All payments in lieu of notice...

Employers should be prepared for several tax system reforms that are due to take effect this year, including changes to...

Employees who are leaving under a cloud can cause problems, demonstrated recently when a Twitter employee hid President Trump’s account...