In summary, the proposed rate for Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay and Statutory Shared Parental Pay will be £148.68, and the Statutory Sick Pay weekly rate will be £94.25.
HMRC’s Software Developers Support Team (SDST) informed us that the Small Employers Relief threshold (£45,000) and recovery rate (3%) remain unchanged for 2019-20, as does the standard recovery rate (92%).
These figures are all still subject to parliamentary approval.
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Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Extension) 2017-19 10 December 2018
The text of this Private Member’s Bill has been published, which aims to provide shared parental leave and pay to the self-employed including freelance workers and workers in the GIG economy. The Bill also aims to extend the sharing of statutory maternity allowance to a mother’s self-employed partner.
The Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Extension) Bill 2017-19 was introduced by Tracy Brabin, MP for Batley and Spen who hailed this as being a bill that delivers ‘no additional cost to the tax payer’.
The Bill received its first reading on 21 February 2018. The second reading debate of the was originally scheduled for 11 May 2018, but it is now expected to take place on Friday 25 January 2019.
If the Bill receives Royal Assent and becomes the ‘Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Extension) Act 2018’, the regulations will come into force within 12 months of this date.
Geographical extent – The Bill applies to England, Wales, and Scotland
Share Parental Leave was launched in 2015 and however parental take up is estimated to be a low 2%. The campaign 'Share the Joy' is part of the government’s aim to raise awareness of employment rights, in a drive to boost job satisfaction and productivity as part of the modern Industrial Strategy and Good Work plan.
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The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2019 4 March 2019
This order increases, from 6 April 2019, the limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals, and other amounts payable under employment legislation, such as redundancy payments and unfair dismissal awards.
The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) order 2019 has been laid before Parliament and subject to approval will come into force on 6 April 2019.
Geographical extent – This Order applies to Great Britain; England, Wales and Scotland.
Schedule table of increase of limits
Relevant statutory provision
Subject of provision
Old Limit New Limit
1 Section 145E(3) of the 1992 Act
Amount of award for unlawful inducement relating to trade union membership or activities, or for unlawful inducement relating to collective bargaining.
£4,059
£4,193
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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