Glasgow Employment Law Blog

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.