Long commutes costing firms a week’s worth of staff productivity......................................................................42 Do your employees know about the new Childcare Choices website .................................................................43 Less than 1 in 5 UK managers support ‘hard Brexit’...........................................................................................44 How to tackle summer related employment Issues ............................................................................................44 Firms asked to increase older worker numbers by 12% by 2022 .......................................................................45 Financial wellbeing webinar................................................................................................................................45 Protecting vulnerable workers from exploitation .................................................................................................46 Come rain or shine…..........................................................................................................................................47 Go home on time on Wednesday 21 June 2017.................................................................................................48 A quarter of new dads are missing out on paternity leave and pay ....................................................................48 Do your employees know about Childcare Choices? .........................................................................................49 31.95 million people now in work........................................................................................................................49 Call for flexible, affordable and straightforward immigration system...................................................................50 Expenses, Benefits & Reward.......................................................................... 51 Company Cars .......................................................................................................................................................51 Advisory Fuel Rates for Company Cars from 1 March 2017...............................................................................51 Advisory Fuel Rates for Company Cars from 1 June 2017.................................................................................51 General Expenses, Benefits & Reward News .....................................................................................................53 HM Treasury calls for evidence on employee expenses ....................................................................................53 Tax exemption on employer provided pension advice ........................................................................................53 Overnight subsistence allowances for lorry drivers.............................................................................................54 Taxation of Employee Expenses Call for Evidence ............................................................................................55 Tax-Free Childcare (TFC)......................................................................................................................................56 Tax Free Childcare to be launched 28 April 2017...............................................................................................56 Childcare Choices website launched..................................................................................................................56 Tax-Free Childcare available now for children under four ..................................................................................56 Government News............................................................................................. 58 CIPP summary of Budget 2017 ............................................................................................................................58 Brexit ......................................................................................................................................................................64 What does Brexit mean for UK employment law? ..............................................................................................64 Brexit: Employment Law.....................................................................................................................................65 Clarity on Brexit for ‘all’ of the UK .......................................................................................................................66 UK formally triggers Article 50 ............................................................................................................................67 Prime Minister’s letter to European Council President triggering Article 50 ........................................................68 General Election News..........................................................................................................................................69 £10 minimum wage if Labour win next election ..................................................................................................69 Prime Minister announces 8 June snap general election ...................................................................................69 8 June general election confirmed......................................................................................................................69 The pre-election period.......................................................................................................................................70 Labour would introduce four new bank holidays if it wins election......................................................................70 Labour plans to transform the workplace............................................................................................................71 Finance Bill massively reduced due to snap election .........................................................................................71 PLSA unveils pension priorities for party manifestos ..........................................................................................72 Labour could introduce a new income tax bracket..............................................................................................73 Lib Dems offer ‘daddy month’ of paid parental leave for new fathers .................................................................73 Further workers' rights protections promised by PM...........................................................................................74 Conservative Manifesto 2017 .............................................................................................................................74 Liberal Democrat Manifesto 2017.......................................................................................................................75 Labour Manifesto 2017 .......................................................................................................................................76 UK election ends in hung parliament ..................................................................................................................77 General Government News...................................................................................................................................78 BEIS Committee launch inquiry into the future world of work .............................................................................78 New double taxation dispute resolution mechanism...........................................................................................78 Secretary of State for Work and Pensions..........................................................................................................79 Financial Secretary to the HM Treasury .............................................................................................................79 Parliamentary under-secretary for pensions and financial inclusion ...................................................................80 HM Revenue & Customs................................................................................... 81 Employment and Payroll Group...........................................................................................................................81 General HMRC News.............................................................................................................................................82 HMRC warn of new “Your 2016 Tax Report” email scam...................................................................................82 HMRC wins £3.1m dispute over tax software .....................................................................................................82 HMRC Employer Bulletins ....................................................................................................................................83 HMRC Employer Bulletin – April 2017................................................................................................................83 Making Tax Digital.................................................................................................................................................84 Consultation on Making Tax Digital sanctions for late submission and late payment .........................................84
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