• protection against unfair treatment because of someone's actual age, or the age they are thought to be, or the age of someone they are associated with • protection against harassment because of age, and • different treatment because of age being allowed in very limited circumstances.
The new age discrimination guidance includes:
•
Overview of age discrimination
• Key areas where age discrimination may happen • Risks of stereotyping people because of age • Risks of using ageist language • When different treatment because of age may be allowed • Making a claim for age discrimination • Protected characteristics video • Ten obligations for employers (factsheet) • Top ten myths (factsheet)
Back to Contents
Calculating holiday pay for workers without fixed hours or pay 27 February 2019
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published additional guidance on how to calculate holiday pay for workers whose hours and / or pay are not fixed.
The new guidance ‘Calculating holiday pay for workers without fixed hours or pay’ explains how to calculate statutory holiday pay for workers without fixed hours or fixed rates of pay. It has been designed as a practical guide for employers with sections designed to respond to specific questions employers may have when calculating holiday pay for individuals who are working without fixed hours or fixed rates of pay.
It complements the Holiday entitlement: the basics guidance, which explains how to calculate holiday pay for the majority of workers.
Both employers and workers can use this guidance.
CIPP comment The Policy team have been in discussions with BEIS, stakeholders and members for quite some time now to bring together more comprehensive guidance on the subject of calculating holiday pay. A big thank you to those of you who took the time to contribute whether through attending various thinks tanks and roundtables, or via phone or email, your input makes all the difference to affecting change, and in this case the creation of valuable additional guidance through your experience and knowledge.
Feedback on the guidance is welcome, so please do email us at policy with your thoughts.
Back to Contents
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 Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
Page 84 of 598
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker