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Agency workers guidance NEW GUIDANCE (https://bit.ly/2jpW37U) has been published by ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) to help workers and employers know their rights and responsibilities. The new guidance covers: ● What is an agency worker? ● Understanding the employment status of an agency worker ● What are the advantages and disadvantages of working as an agency worker? ● What are the advantages and disadvantages of an organisation using agency workers? ● Becoming an agency worker ● Rights when working as an agency worker ● Ways to resolve matters that may arise as an agency worker. Fathers and the workplace SUBSEQUENT TO conclusion of the enquiry it opened in January 2017, the Women and Equalities Committee recently published the report Fathers and the workplace (https://bit. ly/2u2A2nR) making the following key recommendations: ● Fathers who are employees should be entitled to paid time off to attend antenatal appointments as a day-one right. The government should consider whether the entitlement to attend two appointments is sufficiently supportive for parents of multiple babies or where other factors mean additional appointments are required. ● Statutory paternity pay should be paid at ninety per cent of the father’s pay (capped for higher earners) to ensure that all fathers, regardless of income, can be at home around the time of their child’s birth. ● The government should consider the costs and benefits of introducing a new policy of twelve weeks’ dedicated leave for fathers in the child’s first year to replace shared parental leave when it reviews this policy in 2018. ● The government should seek to legislate immediately to make a reality the prime minister’s call for all jobs to be advertised as flexible from day one, unless there are solid business reasons not to. ● The government should act now to harmonise workplace rights for fathers who are agency workers or self-employed with those for employed fathers where practical. ● To help drive the cultural change in the workplace that the government wishes to see, it should consider the benefits of amending the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 to add an additional characteristic of ‘paternity’, looking at what period such a characteristic would cover and to which groups of working fathers it would apply. And briefly… ● Expenses and benefits from employment toolkit – The latest version of this toolkit which is aimed at helping and supporting tax agents and advisers in completing P11D and P11D(b) returns on behalf of their clients for tax year 2017–18 can be found here https://bit.ly/2rjqyjq. The toolkit is also relevant for record keeping in 2018-19. ● Updated NM/LW guidance – The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has updated its guidance on calculating the national minimum/living wage (NM/LW) which can be found here: https://bit.ly/2waOo6F.
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