Contents Apprenticeships .................................................................................................. 7 Apprenticeship Service open for registration ....................................................................................................... 7 Apprenticeship Levy manual................................................................................................................................ 7 Apprenticeship levy guidance for employers with pooled PAYE schemes .......................................................... 8 Employer guide to apprenticeships...................................................................................................................... 8 Apprenticeship standards and funding framework updated ................................................................................. 8 CIPP Policy & Research.................................................................................... 10 General News.........................................................................................................................................................10 CIPP webcast – policy team out and about ........................................................................................................10 Informal consultation............................................................................................................................................11 Quick Polls.............................................................................................................................................................12 CIPP quick poll on reconciliation issues .............................................................................................................12 Do you remember to log your Continuing Professional Development? ..............................................................12 Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)............................................................... 14 Suppliers of CIS online .......................................................................................................................................14 HMRC Construction Industry Scheme webinars.................................................................................................14 Data protection .................................................................................................. 15 General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)....................................................................................................15 Prepare now for biggest change to data protection law for a generation............................................................15 Employment News ............................................................................................ 17 Citizen News ..........................................................................................................................................................17 Employment Law & Guidance ..............................................................................................................................18 Consultation published on caste discrimination ..................................................................................................18 Acas guidance on calculating holiday pay ..........................................................................................................18 Employment Tribunals..........................................................................................................................................20 Some Other Substantial Reason (SOSR) Dismissal ..........................................................................................20 £25,000 for early termination of apprenticeship contract ....................................................................................20 BHS workers share £1m payout over failed redundancy process ......................................................................21 Working Time - sleeping at work ........................................................................................................................21 Unlawful contracts ..............................................................................................................................................22 Definition of Worker ............................................................................................................................................22 Holiday Pay and ‘three-month gap’ rule..............................................................................................................23 British Airways loses High Court battle over discretionary increase ...................................................................23 Calculating Strike Pay ........................................................................................................................................24 BA to appeal High Court ruling on discretionary increases.................................................................................24 Altering contractual job duties without prior consultation and agreement ...........................................................25 Territorial Jurisdiction .........................................................................................................................................26 Ambulance workers’ holiday pay to include overtime for ‘shift overruns’ ............................................................26 Shared parental pay - father wins sex discrimination case .................................................................................27 Employees not under duty to disclose intention to compete ...............................................................................28 Holiday pay implications for 'gig economy' workers ............................................................................................28 Charity to pay care workers minimum wage for sleep-ins ..................................................................................29 Gender Pay Gap ....................................................................................................................................................30 CIPP webcast on Gender Pay Gap Reporting....................................................................................................30 Gender Pay Gap viewing service .......................................................................................................................30 Gender pay gap reporting – explaining your data...............................................................................................30 General Employment News ..................................................................................................................................32 Payroll Giving @30Thunderclap .........................................................................................................................32 Paper £5 notes to be withdrawn from circulation ................................................................................................32 Employment rate joint highest since 1971 ..........................................................................................................32 Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) - guidance consultation......................................................................33 Financial wellbeing webinar................................................................................................................................34 Stress continues to be main cause of long-term absence ..................................................................................34 International Payroll Day.....................................................................................................................................35 Sickness cover to be provided for Uber drivers ..................................................................................................36 Millennial women less financially confident than millennial men.........................................................................36 Upturn in demand for temporary/contract workers in the UK ..............................................................................37 One in five employers expect to announce a pay freeze ....................................................................................38 Only 1 in 4 people with a long-term mental illness are in work ...........................................................................38 Check your controls in wake of cyber attacks.....................................................................................................39 Use of labour providers: advice on due diligence ...............................................................................................40 Homeworking up by 152,000 over the last year..................................................................................................41 Sick on the job? ..................................................................................................................................................41
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