Glasgow Employment Law Blog

What is an unlawful deduction?

It is essential that employers are open and honest about explaining payment to employees. Under the law, employees must receive the agreed pay for work they have undertaken in accordance with their employment contract and conditions of employment.

In effort to encourage the involvement of fathers with their children from the earliest possible stages, the Government has introduced increased access for them to attend their child’s ante-natal care. Effective from 1^st October, fathers and partners will have the right to take unpaid time off work to attend two antenatal appointments.

In effort to encourage the involvement of fathers with their children from the earliest possible stages, the Government has introduced increased access for them to attend their child’s ante-natal care. Effective from 1^st October, fathers and partners will have the right to take unpaid time off work to attend two antenatal appointments.

In a  new report, the Trade Union Congress (TUC), has stated that employment tribunal fees have been ‘a huge victory for Britain’s worst bosses’. The report published on 29 July, marks the first anniversary of the introduction of charges for employment tribunals.

Employee engagement has declined sharply in the UK, according to the global perspectives survey from market research firm ORC International.

Scotland’s top one per cent of income earners - about 25,000 people - have increased their wages and total income at a greater rate than the rest of the nation’s workers in the past decade, according to a new report funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Employment law is an area that seems to be subject to constant change and 2013 will prove to be no exception. We will see legislative changes that will lead to increases in statutory maternity, paternity and adoption leave payments from April 2013. Statutory sick pay rates again will increase as of April and the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill will be implemented. Unpaid parental leave will increase to 18 weeks as of March . We will also see the implementation of fees for employees to lodge claims at the employment tribunal, a major change.