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New legislation to ensure tips go to workers

Effective
to be confirmed

The Government is to introduce legislation to ensure that tips left for workers go to them in full.

Employment regulations for a smooth Brexit

Effective
EU Exit Day

The following regulations make technical amendments to employment law so that it continues to operate effectively on the day the UK leaves the EU.

Four-week break will not interrupt continuity of employment

Effective
to be confirmed

The Government is to extend from one week to four weeks the period that breaks continuity of employment when assessing eligibility for statutory employment rights.

The right to request a more stable contract

Effective
to be confirmed

The Government is to introduce a new right for all workers to request a more predictable and stable contract.

New mothers to get enhanced redundancy protection

Effective
to be confirmed

The Government is to extend redundancy protection for six months from the date of a mother’s return to work. The reform will also cover those taking adoption and shared parental leave, helping to ensure new parents are protected from discrimination in the workplace.

Data protection regulations for a smooth Brexit

Effective
EU Exit Day

The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 became law on 28 February 2019 and will come into force on EU Exit Day.

Pension Schemes Bill 2019–20

Effective
to be confirmed

This Bill contains measures to allow collective defined contribution schemes to operate in the UK, for instance.

Scotland legislates to increase the number of women on public boards

Effective
29 May 2020

The Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 sets a “gender representation objective” for public authorities in Scotland when they make appointments to non-executive board positions.

Value Added Tax (Zero Rate for Personal Protective Equipment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020

Reference
SI 2020/458
Effective
1 May 2020

This Order introduces a temporary zero rate of VAT on PPE used for protection against COVID-19.

The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) Regulations 2020

Effective
6 April 2020

These draft regulations introduce a new entitlement for parents who are taking Parental Bereavement Leave and who meet the eligibility requirements to receive a statutory payment while absent from work.

Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018

Reference
SI 2018/24
Effective
6 April 2020

The Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 entitles parents who lose a child under the age of 18 to two weeks' paid leave.

Agency Workers (Amendment) Regulations 2019

Reference
SI 2019/724
Effective
6 April 2020

These regulations amend the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 so that agency workers will no longer be able to opt out of their equal pay entitlements.

Employment Rights (Employment Particulars and Paid Annual Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Reference
SI 2018/1378
Effective
6 April 2020

These regulations require employers to provide all workers with a written statement of employment particulars on the day employment begins (currently the statement has to be provided within eight weeks).

ICE arrangements: threshold for request reduced

Effective
6 April 2020

The percentage of employees required for a valid request to set up information and consultation of employees (ICE) arrangements is to be reduced from 10% to 2%.

Providing a key information document to agency workers

Effective
6 April 2020

From 6 April 2020 all agency workers must be given a key information document before agreeing terms with an employment business.

Increases to statutory pay rates

Effective
5 April and 6 April 2020

All statutory pay rates will increase in April 2020.

Minimum wage increases from April 2020

Reference
SI 2020/338
Effective
1 April 2020

The National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage will increase with effect from 1 April 2020.

Coronavirus Act 2020

Reference
Chapter 7
Effective
26 March 2020 and on such dates as the Secretary of State will announce by future regulations

This Act introduces emergency powers to tackle the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. It gives powers and tools to the agencies and services involved in dealing with the virus including schools, hospitals and the police.

Working Time (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Reference
SI 2020/365
Effective
26 March 2020

This instrument amends regulation 13 of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) to ensure that workers for whom it is not reasonably practicable to take holiday due to the coronavirus situation can carry their holiday into the following two leave years.

The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Reference
SI 2020/304
Effective
17 March 2020

These regulations amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations 2020 in relation to the guidance with which a person self-isolating due to coronavirus needs to comply in order to claim Statutory Sick Pay.

The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Reference
SR 2020/32
Effective
13 March 2020

These regulations provide that a person who is self-isolating in line with government guidance relating to coronavirus is deemed to be incapable of work, and therefore is entitled to Statutory Sick Pay.

The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations 2020

Reference
SI 2020/287
Effective
13 March 2020

These regulations provide that a person who is self-isolating in line with government guidance relating to coronavirus is deemed to be incapable of work, and therefore is entitled to Statutory Sick Pay.

Older Legislation in Force

Decision (EU) 2019/584 taken in agreement with the UK extending the period under Article 50(3) TEU

Reference
Decision (EU) 2019/584
Effective
11 April 2019

An EU Decision has been published regarding an extension of the period before the UK leaves the EU.

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2019

Reference
Chapter 16
Effective
9 April 2019

This Act is somewhat unusual in that, rather than being put forward by the Government, it was proposed by MPs. It requires the Prime Minister to present her plan to request a delay to the Article 50 process, under which the UK is set to leave the European Union, in the form of an amendable motion and prevents her from suggesting any date before 22 May 2019.

Increases to statutory maternity pay and other statutory pay rates

Effective
7 April 2019

The Government has announced increases in the weekly rates for statutory maternity pay and other types of statutory pay from April 2019.

Employer contributions to auto-enrolment pensions increase to 3%

Reference
SI 2016/719
Effective
6 April 2019

On 6 April 2019 the minimum contribution employers are required to make to auto-enrolment pensions increases from 2% to 3%.

Payslips must state hours worked

Effective
6 April 2019

The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) Order 2018 requires employers to provide additional information about the number of hours that are being paid for within the itemised pay statement (payslip) of employees for whom pay varies according to the number of hours worked.

Right to itemised payslips extended to workers

Reference
SI 2018/529
Effective
6 April 2019

The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2018 extends the right to receive an itemised pay statement (payslip), which previously only applied to employees, to all workers.

Employment Rights (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019

Reference
SI 2019/731
Effective
6 April 2019 and 6 April 2020

These regulations introduce three changes. The first change increases the maximum financial penalty available for aggravated breach of a worker’s employment rights from £5000 to £20,000, this came into force on 6 April 2019.

Abolition of receipt checking for benchmark scale rate travel expenses

Effective
6 April 2019

A clause in the Finance Act 2019 removes the requirement for employers to check receipts when using the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) benchmark scale rates to pay or reimburse their employees’ qualifying subsistence expenses.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2019

Reference
SI 2019/324
Effective
6 April 2019

The increases to tribunal award limits from 6 April 2019 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2019.

Minimum wage increases from April 2019

Effective
1 April 2019

The Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommended increases to the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates.

The Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendments Relating to Flexible Working) Regulations 2018

Effective
1 April 2019

These regulations introduce two new types of flexible working (known collectively as “flexible service”) for those serving in the regular Armed Forces (the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the Army and the Royal Air Force).

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (Exit Day) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

Reference
SI 2019 No. 718
Effective
29 March 2019

These Regulations confirm that “exit day”, as used in previous legislation, now refers to either 12 April or 22 May 2019.

Large companies required to report on directors’ pay and probity

Effective
1 January 2019

The Companies (Miscellaneous Reporting) Regulations 2018 introduce new reporting requirements in order to build confidence in the way that large private and quoted companies are run.

The Time Off for Public Duties Order 2018

Reference
2018 No.665
Effective
1 October 2018

This Order amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA) to grant unpaid time off work to four groups of volunteers in the criminal justice system who monitor conditions of those in custody.

Investigatory Powers (Interception by Businesses, etc for Monitoring and Record-keeping Purposes) Regulations 2018

Effective
27 June 2018

These regulations come under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. Similar provisions are currently contained in the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000, which these new regulations will replace.

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

Effective
26 June 2018 and by regulations

The European Union (Withdrawal) Act repeals the European Communities Act 1972 (under which EU laws have effect in the UK) on the day the UK leaves the EU.

Trade Secrets Directive

Effective
9 June 2018

The EU Trade Secrets Directive was adopted by the European Parliament and Council on 8 June 2016. Member States have two years from this date to implement the directive, ie by 9 June 2018.

The Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018

Effective
25 May 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force on 25 May 2018.

Data Protection Act 2018

Reference
Chapter 12
Effective
25 May 2018

The Data Protection Act 2018 aims to modernise data protection laws in the UK to make them fit for purpose for an increasingly digital economy and society.

General Data Protection Regulation

Effective
25 May 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679 EU) (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC).

Regulations to protect whistleblowers applying for NHS jobs

Reference
2018 No. 579
Effective
23 May 2018

The Employment Rights Act 1996 (NHS Recruitment — Protected Disclosure) Regulations 2018 prohibit an NHS employer from discriminating against an applicant because it appears that the applicant has made a protected disclosure.

Changes to Scottish income tax bands

Effective
6 April 2018

The Scottish Parliament has set the following income tax rates and bands for 2018/19.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2018

Reference
SI 2018 No.194
Effective
6 April 2018

The increases to tribunal award limits from 6 April 2018 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2018.

Increases to employer contributions to auto-enrolment pensions

Effective
6 April 2018

On 6 April 2018 the minimum contribution employers are required to make to auto-enrolment pensions increases from 1% to 2%. A further increase to 3% will take place in April 2019.

Occupational pension costs and charges reporting requirements

Effective
6 April 2018

From 6 April 2018, occupational pension schemes which offer money purchase benefits are required to provide an illustrative example of the cumulative effect of costs and charges incurred by a member.

Changes to tax treatment of payments in lieu of notice

Effective
6 April 2018

Changes to the income tax and National Insurance treatment of payments in lieu of notice (PILONs) came into force on 6 April 2018.

Increase in state pension age

Effective
2018–2028

The Government plans to increase the state pension age.

Minimum wage increases from April 2018

Effective
1 April 2018

The Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommended increases to the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates.

Increases to statutory maternity pay and other types of pay

Effective
April 2018

The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2018 increases the weekly rates for statutory maternity pay and other types of pay from April 2018..

Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2017

Effective
10 March 2018

These draft regulations restrict the circumstances in which a relevant public sector employer can make deductions from its workers’ wages in respect of trade union subscriptions (commonly referred to as “check-off”).

Seafarers’ employment rights

Effective
January 2018

The Government has published guidance on when UK equality legislation and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) apply to seafarers.

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Charges and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Reference
2017 No. 774
Effective
1 October 2017

These draft regulations introduce a cap on early exit charges for members in occupational pension schemes who are aged 55 or over and therefore eligible to access “pension freedoms”.

Employers liable where employees facilitate tax evasion

Effective
30 September 2017

The Criminal Finances Act 2017 became law on 27 April. The Act introduces anti-money laundering measures and, significantly for employers, makes businesses liable for criminal acts committed by employees who facilitate or assist tax evasion by other individuals, eg customers.

The Childcare Act 2016 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2017

Effective
1 September 2017

These regulations bring into force the duty in the Childcare Act 2016 to secure 30 hours free childcare for working parents.

Employment tribunal fees banned

Effective
26 July 2017

On 26 July 2017, the Supreme Court declared that employment tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal fees are unlawful, under both domestic and EU law and has quashed the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013, on the basis that it prevents access to justice.

Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2016

Reference
2016/1137
Effective
6 April 2017

These regulations, which came into force on 19 December 2016, amend the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003.

Off-payroll working in the public sector: reform of IR35

Effective
6 April 2017

The draft provisions of the Finance Bill 2017 include changes that reform the off-payroll rules (often known as IR35) in the public sector.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2017

Reference
2017/175
Effective
6 April 2017

The increases to tribunal award limits from 6 April 2017 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2017.

Changes to salary sacrifice in the Finance Act 2017

Effective
6 April 2017

The Finance Act 2017 introduces changes that mean that benefits provided under “optional remuneration arrangements” no longer have the income tax and NICs advantages previously available under salary sacrifice arrangements.

Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017

Effective
6 April 2017

These regulations will apply to employers with more than 250 employees.

Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017

Reference
2017 No. 499
Effective
6 April 2017

These regulations require sponsoring employers who employ skilled migrant workers to pay a new immigration skills charge.

Changes to skilled migrant rules

Effective
6 April 2017

In response to reviews by the Migration Advisory Committee, the Home Office will introduce the following changes to the rules for skilled migrants coming to work in the UK.

Apprenticeship levy

Reference
SI 2017 No. 414
Effective
6 April 2017

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 introduce an apprenticeship levy on large employers.

Increase to statutory sick pay

Reference
Statutory sick pay
Effective
6 April 2017

The Government has announced that statutory sick pay will increase from £88.45 to £89.35.

Increases to statutory maternity pay and other types of pay

Reference
Statutory maternity pay
Effective
2 April 2017

The Government has announced increases in the weekly rates for statutory maternity pay and other types of pay from 2 April 2017.

Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017

Effective
1 April 2017

These regulations require certain prescribed persons to report annually on public interest disclosures (whistleblowing disclosures) that they receive from workers.

National Minimum Wage increases from April 2017

Effective
1 April 2017

The Government is aligning the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) so that both increase in April from 2017 onwards.

Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017

Reference
2017 No. 353
Effective
31 March 2017

These regulations are one of two statutory instruments that require employers to report on gender pay gaps in their organisations.

Public Sector Apprenticeship Targets Regulations 2017

Effective
31 March 2017

The Government has a target that the number of apprentices who start to work for a prescribed public body in England over the period 2017–2021 should be equal to 2.3% of its workforce.

Regulatory references in the financial sector

Effective
7 March 2017

The Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority have introduced new rules for employment references for senior bankers and certain other roles in the financial sector.

Trade Union Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional) Regulations 2017

Reference
2017/139 (C.14)
Effective
1 March 2017

These regulations bring into force the main provisions of the Trade Union Act 2016. The Act reforms the rules on trade union ballots for industrial action.

Industrial Action (Important Public Services) Regulations 2017

Effective
1 March 2017

As part of the Trade Union Act 2016, the Government is introducing a new 40% important public services threshold. This means ballots for industrial action in key public services sectors will need the support of at least 40% of those entitled to vote. (This is in addition to the new 50% participation threshold, which will require a turnout of at least 50% in all trade union ballots for industrial action.)

Trade Union Act 2016 (Political Funds) (Transition Period) Regulations 2017

Reference
2017/130
Effective
10 February 2017

The Trade Union Act 2016 makes changes to the Trade Union and Labour Relations Consolidation Act 1992 requiring new members to opt in if they wish to subscribe to the union’s political fund.

Enterprise Act 2016 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2017

Effective
1 February 2017

These regulations bring s.41 of the Enterprise Act 2016 into force on 1 February.

Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2016

Reference
SI 2016/1037
Effective
21 and 25 November and 1 December 2016

These commencement regulations bring into force various provisions of the Immigration Act 2016 in relation to employment.

Trade Union Act 2016 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2016

Reference
2016/1051
Effective
3 November 2016

These regulations provide for references to the 1992 Act to mean the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992; and provide for a review into electronic balloting.

National Minimum Wage increases from October 2016

Effective
1 October 2016

New National Minimum Wage rates will apply from 1 October 2016.

Pension auto-enrolment: dates for contribution increases changed

Reference
2016/719
Effective
1 October 2016

Pension auto-enrolment: dates for contribution increases change.

Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2016

Reference
2016 No. 603 (C.44)
Effective
12 July 2016

These regulations bring many sections of the Immigration Act 2016 into force on 12 July 2016. The following sections are most relevant to employment.

Immigration Act 2016: Labour market enforcement changes

Effective
12 July 2016

The Immigration Act 2016 includes provisions to establish a statutory Director of Labour Market Enforcement. The Director will produce an annual strategy and set priorities for enforcement bodies across the labour market and across the whole spectrum of non-compliance.

Immigration Act 2016

Effective
12 July 2016

The Immigration Act includes measures relating to employment.

Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Reference
SI 2016 No. 510
Effective
8 May 2016

These regulations amend the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 to prohibit employment agencies from generic recruitment advertising in another European Economic Area (EEA) country without also advertising the vacancy in Great Britain and in English.

Enterprise Act 2016

Reference
2016 c. 12
Effective
4 May 2016

This Act deals with a range of Government measures intended to support the growth of enterprise in the UK.

Trade Union Act 2016

Effective
4 May 2016

This Act amends the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation Act) Act 1992.

Pensions Act 2014 (Savings) Order 2015

Reference
2015 No. 1502
Effective
6 April 2016 and 6 April 2019

The Pensions Act 2014 abolishes contracting out for salary-related occupational pension schemes. It does so by repealing provisions of the Pensions Act 1993.

Finance Bill: Travel expenses of workers providing services through intermediaries

Effective
6 April 2016

The Finance Bill 2016 amends the rules in the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (ITEPA) on deductions from earnings made for travel and subsistence expenses, where a worker is engaged through an employment intermediary.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2016

Reference
2016 No. 288
Effective
6 April 2016

The increases to tribunal award limits from 6 April 2016 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2016.

Statutory pay rates frozen

Effective
6 April 2016

Rates for statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory shared parental pay and statutory adoption pay usually increase in April each year. This year the rates remain at the 2015/16 levels, that is £139.58 per week (or 90% of the person's average weekly earnings if that is less than £139.58).

New single-tier state pension

Effective
6 April 2016

A new single-tier state pension was introduced by the Pensions Act 2014. The new pension is payable to people reaching state pension age on or after 6 April 2016.

National Insurance Contributions abolished for approved apprentices

Effective
6 April 2016

To support the growth of high quality apprenticeships for young people, the Government has abolished employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for apprentices under the age of 25 engaged in government approved apprenticeship frameworks.

Penalties for unpaid employment tribunal awards

Effective
6 April 2016

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, section 150, introduces financial penalties for employers where they fail to pay sums due to the employment tribunal.

Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) (No.2) Regulations 2015

Reference
2015 No. 1677
Effective
6 April 2016

These regulations replace the Occupational Pension Schemes (Schemes that were Contracted-out) Regulations 2015. The problem with the latter regulations, which were published on 16 July 2015, was that regulation 28 and part of regulation 32 were not made according to the correct Parliamentary procedure.

Changes to employment tribunal postponement procedures

Effective
6 April 2016

The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 amend the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure.

National Living Wage from 1 April 2016

Effective
1 April 2016

From April 2016 workers aged 25 and over receive the National Living Wage — a new premium on top of the National Minimum Wage that takes their pay to £7.20 per hour.

National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Effective
1 April 2016

These regulations increase the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rate for adult workers aged 25 or over and rename this rate “The National Living Wage”. NMW rates for workers under 25 remain unchanged.

Pensions Act 2014

Effective
14 May 2014 and 6 April 2016

This Act creates a new single-tier state pension for people reaching pension age on or after 6 April 2016. A person entitled to the full state pension will receive a single weekly rate as set out in the regulations. This will replace the current state pension, which is made up of a basic and additional state pension.

European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015

Reference
2015 No. 2059
Effective
18 January 2016

These Regulations revoke and replace The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2007.

Exclusivity Terms in Zero Hours Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015

Reference
SI 2015 No. 2021
Effective
11 January 2016

Zero-hours contracts that prohibit workers from working under another contract or arrangement were banned on 26 May 2015. The ban was brought in by amendments to the Employment Rights Act 1996 via the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.

Draft Zero Hours Workers (Exclusivity Terms) Regulations 2015

Effective
To be confirmed

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 bans exclusivity terms in zero hours contracts.

Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Transparency in Supply Chains) Regulations 2015

Reference
SI 2015 No.1833
Effective
29 October 2015

These regulations require commercial organisations with a total turnover of at least £36 million to publish a slavery and human trafficking statement under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“the 2015 Act”). They also set out how the total turnover of a commercial organisation is to be calculated.

National Minimum Wage increases from October 2015

Effective
1 October 2015

New National Minimum Wage rates apply from 1 October 2015.

Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2015

Reference
2015 No.1329
Effective
26 May 2015

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2015 bring into force various measures introduced in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.

Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015

Effective
Expected by commencement orders

Relating to employment law, this Act will make reforms to: whistleblowing; employment tribunals: failure to pay sums; employment tribunals: postponements; National Minimum Wage; exclusivity in zero-hours contracts; and public sector exit payments.

National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015

Effective
6 April 2015

These regulations consolidate the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”), and subsequent amending regulations, to make the rules clearer and more workable for employers and employees. They do not introduce substantive changes to the rules.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2015

Reference
2015 No. 226
Effective
6 April 2015

The increases to tribunal award limits from 6 April 2015 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2015.

Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Transitional Provisions and Appropriate Independent Advice) Regulations 2015

Reference
SI 2015 No. 742
Effective
6 April 2015

These regulations include a requirement for employers to pay for independent advice for their employees if they try to persuade them to move from a defined benefit to a defined contribution pension scheme. The requirement follows the trend, in recent years, for employers to encourage employees to move from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes in order to reduce the employer’s pension liabilities.

Shared Parental Leave — Children and Families Act 2014

Effective
1 October 2014 and 5 April 2015

The Government’s proposals for introducing shared parental leave have been incorporated into the Children and Families Act 2014.

Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees (Amendment) Order 2015

Reference
2015 No. 414
Effective
25 March 2015

This Order makes minor amendments to the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1893), which sets out the fees payable in employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Criminalising enforced subject access

Effective
10 March 2015

Section 56 of the Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on 10 March 2015. From that date, employers who require applicants, employees or service providers to make subject access requests and disclose the results to them may risk prosecution. Subject access requests are commonly used to reveal details of any criminal convictions held by the requestor.

Pension Schemes Act 2015

Effective
3 March 2015 and via secondary legislation

The Pension Schemes Act introduces a new category of private pension scheme: “shared risk pensions”. Currently, there are two types of workplace pension: defined benefit schemes (also known as final salary schemes) and defined contribution schemes. Shared risk pensions (also known as defined ambition pensions) are being introduced to make it easier to share risk between employers, individual members and third parties.

National Insurance Contributions Act 2015

Effective
12 February 2015

To support the growth of high quality apprenticeships for young people, this Act abolishes employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for apprentices under the age of 25. The NIC relief will apply to earnings up to the upper secondary threshold (£815 per week for 2015 to 2016).

Education and Skills Act 2008

Effective
2013-2015

Since the beginning of the 2013/14 academic year, all young people are required to continue in education or training until the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. From the summer of 2015 this will be extended until their 18th birthday.

Income Tax (Recommended Medical Treatment) Regulations 2014

Effective
1 January 2015

Section 320C of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (inserted by section 12 of the Finance Act 2014) provides an exemption from income tax where an employer funds recommended medical treatment of up to £500 per employee per tax year where the recommendation is made to an employee as part of an occupational health service and is for the purpose of assisting the employee to return to work after a period of absence due to injury or ill-health. The Income Tax (Recommended Medical Treatment) Regulations 2014 set out additional requirements that a recommendation for medical treatment must meet in order for the tax exemption to apply.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013

Effective
Various dates in 2013 and 2014

This Act introduces changes in employment law and in relation to employment tribunals. Significant changes are itemised with greater detail both when in force and where forthcoming.

Maternity and Parental Leave etc (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Effective
1 December 2014 and 5 April 2015

These regulations change the provisions on unpaid parental leave, extending the existing unpaid parental leave regime to parents of children aged between 5 and 18.

Regulations on shared parental leave and pay

Effective
1 October 2014 and 1 December 2014

The Government has published thirteen sets of regulations that will bring the new shared parental leave and pay system into effect. The Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014 have been published in their final form, the rest of the regulations are currently in draft.

National Minimum Wage increases from 1 October 2014

Reference
2014 No.546
Effective
1 October 2014

National Minimum Wage rates increase from 1 October 2014.

Antenatal appointments: time off to accompany a pregnant woman

Effective
1 October 2014

The Children and Families Act 2014 introduces a new right for an expectant father or the partner (including same sex) of a pregnant woman to take unpaid time off work to accompany the woman to up to two of her antenatal appointments. The time off is capped at six and a half hours for each appointment.

Flexible Working Regulations 2014

Reference
2014 No. 1398
Effective
30 June 2014

These Regulations introduce measures, set out in the Children and Families Act 2014, to extend the right to request flexible working to all employees and to replace the statutory procedure for considering requests with a duty to consider requests.

Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Reference
2014 No. 847
Effective
6 April 2014

The Acas Early Conciliation rules came into force on 6 April 2014. Under transitional provisions early conciliation became compulsory on 5 May 2014.

Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

This Order sets out revised rates for the 2014/15 tax year for the automatic enrolment and re-enrolment earnings trigger and the qualifying earnings band.

Statutory Sick Pay (Maintenance of Records) (Revocation) Regulations 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

These regulations abolish the requirement, set out in the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (S.I.1982/894), for employers to maintain records of employees relating to sickness absence and payment of SSP.

Statutory Sick Pay Percentage Threshold (Revocation, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) Order 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

This Order abolished the Statutory Sick Pay Percentage Threshold Order 1995 (SI 1995 No.512) and the Statutory Sick Pay Percentage Threshold Order (Northern Ireland) 1995 (SR 1995 No.69) from 6 April 2014.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2014

Reference
2014 No. 382
Effective
6 April 2014

The increases to tribunal award limits from 6 April 2014 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2014.

Financial penalties for employers that breach employment rights

Effective
6 April 2014

Penalties of between £100 and £5000 may be imposed on an employer found to have breached any of the worker’s rights to which the claim relates where the employer’s behaviour in committing the breach had one or more “aggravating features”, eg the breach was deliberate or repeated.

Increase to Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Additional Statutory Paternity Pay from 6 April 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Additional Statutory Paternity Pay increased from a weekly rate of £136.78 to £138.18 on 6 April 2014

Increase to Statutory Sick Pay from 6 April 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

Under the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Order 2014 the weekly rate for Statutory Sick Pay increased from £86.70 to £87.55 from 6 April 2014.

Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) (Amendment) Order 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

This Order prescribes £20,000 as the maximum penalty that the Secretary of State may require an employer to pay for employing an illegal migrant worker.

Repeal of statutory questionnaire procedure

Reference
2014 No. 416 (C. 17)
Effective
6 April 2014

The Government has abolished the statutory questionnaire procedure (s.138 of the Equality Act 2010) that helps people to assess whether the treatment they have received from their employers amounts to unlawful discrimination.

Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2014

Effective
6 April 2014

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 amended the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 to introduce a requirement for prospective claimants to contact Acas before they are able to present a claim in the Employment Tribunal. Acas will then attempt to resolve the dispute in a process called early conciliation.

Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Participating Wife or Civil Partner of Self-employed Earner) Regulations 2014

Reference
SI 2014, No. 606
Effective
1 April 2014

Women who work in an unpaid capacity in the business of a self-employed spouse or civil partner, and who give birth on or after 27 July 2014, will be eligible to receive a weekly maternity allowance.

Regulation freeze extended to more small businesses

Effective
31 March 2014

For regulations that come into force after 31 March 2014, a new Small and Micro Business Assessment (SMBA) will extend the freeze to businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

Changes to Rehabilitation of Offenders Act

Effective
10 March 2014

Changes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, introduced by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into effect on 10 March 2014.

National Minimum Wage (Variation of Financial Penalty) Regulations 2014

Effective
7 March 2014

These Regulations amend the figures, specified in the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, which are used to calculate financial penalties for underpayment of the National Minimum Wage.

Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Effective
31 January 2014

Following its consultation on changes to the Transfer of Undertakings and Protection of Employment Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006), the Government has amended TUPE 2006. The Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (TUPE 2014) came into force on 31 January 2014. Changes to the Northern Ireland Regulation will be effective later in 2014.

Reform of fee remissions for employment tribunals

Reference
2013 No. 2302 (L. 21)
Effective
7 October 2013

The remission system ensures that access to justice is maintained for those people on lower incomes who would otherwise have difficulty paying a fee to use court or tribunal services. Such people can access court or tribunal services free of charge or at a reduced rate.

Repeal of third-party harassment provisions in Equality Act 2010

Effective
1 October 2013

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 repeals in the Equality Act 2010 the provision which makes employers liable for repeated harassment of an employee by third parties over whom the employer does not have direct control, such as customers or clients.

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

Reference
SI 2013/1471
Effective
1 October 2013

The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) require the responsible person must to notify, and subsequently send a report to, the relevant enforcing authority by an approved means in relation to fatal and certain non-fatal work-related accidents, specified diseases contracted by persons at work and certain specified dangerous occurrences.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Health and Safety) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013

Reference
SI 2013/1666
Effective
1 October 2013

The sole purpose of this Order is to remove references to s.47 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 that are no longer required.

Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Revocations and Amendments) Regulations 2013

Reference
SI 2013/1512
Effective
1 October 2013 and 6 April 2014

These regulations make revocations and amendments to legislation relating to first aid and docks using powers under the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974.

National Minimum Wage effective from October 2013

Effective
1 October 2013

The National Minimum Wage rates that apply from 1 October 2013 are as follows.

Immigration changes on 1 October 2013

Effective
1 October 2013

A number of immigration changes came into force on 1 October 2013.

Employee Shareholders — The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013

Effective
1 September 2013

The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 to create a new employee shareholder employment status.

Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013

Effective
29 July 2013

This Order introduces fees for claims made to an employment tribunal and appeals made to the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Change in the unfair dismissal compensatory cap

Effective
29 July 2013

Following its consultation on ending the employment relationship, the Government decided to introduce a 12 months’ pay cap on the compensatory award for unfair dismissal.

Settlement agreements and negotiations — changes to the law

Effective
29 July 2013

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 renames compromise agreements as settlement agreements and makes offers of settlement inadmissible in unfair dismissal cases.

Introduction of fees in employment tribunals

Effective
29 July 2013

The Government has introduced fees for employment tribunals from 29 July 2013.

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013

Effective
1 July 2013 — main provisions 29 July

These Regulations replace the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004.

Abolition of Agricultural Wages Board

Effective
25 June 2013

The Agricultural Wages Board was abolished on 25 June 2013.

Whistleblowing changes

Effective
25 June 2013

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 to ensure that individuals only make whistleblowing claims on matters of public interest from 25 June 2013.

Employment Appeal Tribunal judges to sit alone

Effective
25 June 2013

Under the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, proceedings before the Employment Appeal Tribunal are now heard by a judge alone since 25 June 2013.

Removal of the qualifying period for dismissal for political opinion

Effective
25 June 2013

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 amended the Employment Rights Act 1996 to remove the requirement for a qualifying period of service to bring an unfair dismissal claim where the reason for the dismissal was the political opinion or affiliations of the employee, from 25 June 2013. Normally, a two-year qualifying period is now needed to bring an unfair dismissal claim.

DBS “Update Service”

Effective
17 June 2013

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) introduced a new Update Service on 17 June 2013 that allows employers to carry out status checks on an individual’s DBS certificate, rather than having to apply for a certificate from scratch.

The Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Part 18) Regulations 2013

Effective
30 April 2013

These Regulations amend the Companies Act 2006 to facilitate employee shareholder status.

Employers must no longer consider old and minor criminal offences

Effective
29 April 2013

Employers can now only ask potential employees to provide details of convictions and cautions that the employer is legally entitled to know. If an employer takes into account a conviction or caution that is not disclosed on the certificate, they are acting unlawfully under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Increase to Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Additional Statutory Paternity Pay

Effective
7 April 2013

New benefit rates apply from April 2013.

Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2013

Effective
6 April 2013

This Order sets out revised rates for the 2013/14 tax year for the automatic enrolment and re-enrolment earnings trigger and the qualifying earnings band.

Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Reference
2013 No.521
Effective
6 April 2013 and 6 April 2014

These Regulations amend the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations (SI 2003/2682) (the 2003 Regulations) as necessary for the operation of HMRC’s Real Time Information programme (RTI) for the majority of employers from April 2013. For example, the amendments allow employers, in specific circumstances, to submit a return up to seven days after the payment is made to the employee. New reporting requirements have also been introduced.

Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment and Application of Schedule 38 to the Finance Act 2012) Regulations 2013

Reference
2013 No.622
Effective
6 April 2013 and 6 April 2014

The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment and Application of Schedule 38 to the Finance Act 2012) Regulations 2013 is a combined Statutory Instrument, which amended the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001 No. 1004) (“the SSCR 2001”) and brought into force certain parts of Schedule 38 to the Finance Act 2012.

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2013

Reference
2013 no.453
Effective
1 April 2013

This withdraws legal aid for most employment claims in England and Wales.

Welfare Reform Act 2012

Effective
On Royal Assent; two months after Royal Assent; and by Commencement Orders

The Welfare Reform Act 2012 outlines the changes proposed by the Government to ensure people in work are better off than the unemployed.

Withdrawal of legal aid for employment tribunal cases

Effective
1 April 2013

This Act withdraws legal aid funding for employment cases other than cases brought under the Equality Act 2010.

Parental Leave (EU Directive) Regulations 2013

Effective
8 March 2013

These regulations make two amendments to legislation in Great Britain in order to implement the Parental Leave Directive (2010/18/EU).

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012

Reference
2012 No. 3007
Effective
1 February 2013

The increases to tribunal award limits from 1 February 2013 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012.

DBS to replace CRB and portable checks to be introduced

Effective
1 December 2012 and June 2013

On 1 December 2012, the CRB merged with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to become the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Pensions Act 2008

Effective
By Order of the Secretary of State

From 2012, the Government proposes to provide access to a private pension to all employees aged between 22 and State retirement age, who are earning more than £5000 a year and are not currently enrolled in a workplace pension scheme.

Pensions Automatic Enrolment: Employers’ Duties

Effective
1 June 2012, 1 July 2012 and 1 October 2012

The Government has introduced four statutory instruments setting out the practical arrangements employers must make to automatically enrol eligible jobholders into a pension scheme.

Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2012

Reference
SI 2012/1536
Effective
1 October 2012

These regulations revoke the Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2007 and replace the detailed requirements for no smoking signs prescribed by those regulations with a requirement that at least one legible no-smoking sign must be displayed in smoke-free vehicles and smoke-free premises.

National Minimum Wage increases from October 2012

Effective
1 October 2012

There have been changes to some National Minimum Wage rates since 1 October 2012

Pensions Act 2008 (Commencement No. 14 and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2012

Reference
2012 No. 2480 (C. 97)
Effective
1 October 2012

This Order brings into force the part of the Pensions Act 2008 relating to stakeholder pension schemes. The Pensions Act 2008 amends the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 which brought in the employer’s duty to designate stakeholder pensions.

Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

Effective
22 September 2012

The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 includes a wide range of measures including legislative changes that amend the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and the Police Act 1997 Regulations, on which the CRB (now DBS) checking service is based.

Changes to criminal record disclosures and barring

Effective
10 September 2012

The Government has scaled back the criminal records and barring systems to ensure fair and proportionate regulation of those who want to work with vulnerable groups. The changes are included in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, which received Royal Assent in May 2012.

Pensions: Employers’ Duties (Implementation) Regulations 2010

Reference
No./Reference: 2010 No.4
Effective
1 September 2012

These Regulations set out the dates from which employers have a duty to arrange for jobholders to become active members of automatic enrolment pension schemes.

Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Effective
1 July 2012

These amendment regulations amend the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010 with regard to:

Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2012

Reference
2012 No. 1506
Effective
15 June 2012

This instrument sets out revised rates for the 2012/13 tax year for the automatic enrolment and re-enrolment earnings trigger and the qualifying earnings band. These rates were set initially in the Pensions Act 2008 with a requirement to review them every tax year.

Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012

Reference
2012 No.215
Effective
1 June 2012

These Regulations amend the Employers’ Duties (Implementation) Regulations 2010, the Employers’ Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations 2010 and the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010.

Unfair Dismissal and Statement of Reasons for Dismissal (Variation of Qualifying Period) Order 2012

Effective
6 April 2012

This Order increases from one year to two years the qualifying period of continuous employment needed to acquire the right not to be unfairly dismissed.

Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (Tribunal Composition) Order 2012

Effective
6 April 2012

This Order enables employment judges to sit alone when hearing unfair dismissal cases. It amends the Employment Tribunals Act 1996, which sets out the proceedings that may be heard by an employment judge without lay members.

Abolition of contracting out on a defined contribution basis

Effective
6 April 2012

From 6 April 2012, contracting out of the additional State Pension on a defined contribution basis will be abolished.

Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Reference
2012 No.822
Effective
6 April 2012

From 6 October 2013, all employers are expected tell HMRC about PAYE payments and deductions (tax, NICs, Student Loan repayments, etc) at the time they pay their employees, rather than at the end of the year as happens now. This is known as real time information (RTI).

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Effective
6 April 2012

These Regulations make the following amendments to the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004

Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Order 2012

Reference
2012 No. 334
Effective
6 April 2012

This Order corrects section 147 of the Equality Act 2010.

Apprenticeships (Form of Apprenticeship Agreement) Regulations 2012

Reference
2012 No. 844
Effective
6 April 2012

These Regulations prescribe the form of the apprenticeship agreement for England and Wales under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009.

Increase to Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Additional Statutory Paternity Pay

Effective
1 April 2012

The Government has announced the new benefit rates that will apply from April 2012.

Employment Tribunals (Increase of Maximum Deposit) Order 2012

Reference
2012 No.149
Effective
15 February 2012

From April 2012, the Government intends to increase from £500 to £1000 the maximum deposit that an employment tribunal can order a party to pay as a condition of continuing with proceedings.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2011

Reference
2011 No. 3006
Effective
1 February 2012

The increases to tribunal award limits from 1 February 2012 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2011.

Localism Act 2011

Effective
15 January 2012

The Localism Act 2011 requires local authorities and fire and rescue authorities to approve and publish annually at full council (for fire and rescue authorities, a meeting of members), a senior pay policy statement which authorities will be required to follow when setting senior pay.

Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations 2011

Effective
6 December 2011

These regulations provide for certain amounts that are chargeable to income tax to be treated as earnings for the purposes of National Insurance contributions (NICs).

Temporary Agency Workers’ Directive

Effective
5 December 2011

The Temporary Agency Workers’ Directive was formally adopted on 19 November 2008. The measure ensures that agency workers are treated equally in the workplace with regard to working conditions and employment rights.

Pensions Act 2011

Effective
3 November 2011

The Pensions Act 2011 introduces numerous changes, such as the increase of the State Pension Age to 66 for both men and women, the CPI, rather than RPI, is now used as the basis for statutory increases in occupational pension payments and payments from the Pension Protection Fund, and much more.

Change to NMW Regulations: Employed Students and the Accommodation Offset

Effective
1 October 2011

The national minimum wage (NMW) rules allow employers who provide accommodation for workers to count it as a benefit in kind towards payment of the NMW, up to a specified daily limit. Between January and April 2011 the Government consulted on whether to change the NMW rules on employer-provided accommodation in relation to students who work part-time for their educational institution.

Agency Workers Regulations 2010

Reference
2010 No. 93
Effective
1 October 2011

These regulations will give agency workers the right to equal treatment with permanent staff on pay, holidays and other basic conditions after 12 weeks in a job.

National Minimum Wage increases from October 2011

Effective
1 October 2011

The Government has announced that the National Minimum Wage rates will increase from 1 October 2011.

Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011

Effective
10 September 2011

The Equality Duty consists of a general duty and specific duties. The general duty applies throughout Great Britain both to public bodies and to any other organisation when it is carrying out a public function. The specific duties only apply to public bodies and are designed to help them meet the general duty. Specific duties differ between England, Scotland and Wales. (The provisions of the Equality Act 2010 do not apply to Northern Ireland.)

Agency Workers (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Reference
2011 No. 1941
Effective
1 September 2011

These Regulations amend the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 to correct drafting errors in regulations 3, 10 and 14 and Schedule 2. The errors in the regulations concern the meaning of agency worker, the provisions concerning permanent contracts providing for pay between assignments, and the liability of the temporary work agency and hirer. The error in the Schedule is a numbering error.

Bribery Act 2010

Effective
1 July 2011

The Government has published guidance to help commercial organisations understand the sorts of procedures they can put in place to prevent bribery.

Value Added Tax (Input Tax) (Amendment) Order 2011

Effective
1 May 2011

This Order removes the restriction on the right to recover VAT incurred on the business entertainment of overseas customers.

Equality Act 2010 (Guidance on the Definition of Disability) Appointed Day Order 2011

Reference
2011 No.1159
Effective
1 May 2011

The guidance explains what should be considered when deciding whether a person is a disabled person for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.

Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Reference
2011 No. 729
Effective
6 April 2011

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/729) implement the changes to the taxation of post-termination payments that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) announced at the end of 2010.

Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

Reference
2010 No. 729
Effective
6 April 2011

Under these Regulations, when a payment is made to a departed employee after his or her P45 has been produced (ie the payment is not included on the P45), tax at the full 20%, 40% or 50% rates must be deducted from the post-termination payment using the “0T” tax code.

Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011

Effective
6 April 2011

This Order sets out the list of public bodies to which the general Equality Duty will apply.

Basic state pension uprate

Effective
April 2011

From April 2011, pensions will rise each year by earnings, inflation or 2.5% — whichever is the higher.

Equality Act 2010 (Statutory Duties) Regulations 2011

Effective
6 April 2011

The Equality Duty (set out in the Equality Act 2010) is a duty on public bodies and others carrying out public functions to embed equality considerations into their day-to-day work, so that they tackle discrimination and inequality and contribute to making society fairer.

Increase in employee personal allowance and National Insurance contributions

Effective
6 April 2011

The personal allowance for basic rate taxpayers aged 65 and under is to increase by £1000 in April 2011 to £7475.

Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1643
Effective
2005

These regulations place a duty on employers to reduce the risk to their employees’ health from exposure to noise at work.

Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011

Effective
6 April 2011

Under the Equality Act 2010 and the Employment Rights Act 1996, dismissing a worker because he or she has reached retirement age does not constitute direct age discrimination and unfair dismissal. The Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations repeal and amend those Acts so that an employer will only be able to operate a compulsory retirement age where this can be objectively justified.

Employers can take positive action to improve diversity

Effective
6 April 2011

The Government brought into force section 159 of the Equality Act 2010 in April 2011.

New rules to stop tax-avoidance schemes for employee pay

Effective
6 April 2011

The June 2010 Budget announced that legislation would be introduced to tackle arrangements using trusts and other vehicles to reward employees that seek to avoid, defer or reduce tax liabilities.

Additional Paternity Leave

Effective
3 April 2011

Legislation on Additional Paternity Leave and Pay came into force in April 2010, in relation to children whose expected week of birth, or notification of being matched for adoption, begins on or after 3 April 2011.

New benefit rates from April 2011

Effective
Week beginning 3 April 2011

From April 2011 statutory maternity pay (SMP), statutory adoption pay (SAP) and statutory paternity pay (SPP) will increase from a weekly rate of £124.88 to £128.73. The weekly rate for SSP will increase from £79.15 to £81.60.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2010

Reference
2010 No. 2926
Effective
1 February 2011

The increases to tribunal award limits from 1 February 2011 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2010.

National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2010

Effective
1 January 2011

In response to a consultation held from February to May 2010, the Government has decided to amend National Minimum Wage Regulations to protect National Minimum Wage workers from potentially exploitative travel and subsistence schemes operated by employment businesses and umbrella companies.

Travel expenses can no longer count towards National Minimum Wage

Effective
1 January 2011

In response to a consultation held from February to May 2010, the Government has decided that action should be taken to protect National Minimum Wage workers from potentially exploitative travel and subsistence schemes operated by Employment Businesses and umbrella companies.

Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010

Effective
1 October 2010

The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 makes amendments to the Equality Act 2010 that arise as a consequence of the Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No.2) Order 2010.

Equality Act 2010 (Disability) Regulations 2010

Reference
SI 2010/2128
Effective
1 October 2010

These regulations supplement provisions in the Equality Act 2010 that provide protection from discrimination for disabled people.

Rise in National Minimum Wage

Effective
1 October 2010

The new rates of the National Minimum Wage came into force on 1 October 2010.

Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2010

Effective
1 October 2010

These Regulations increase the protection for work-seekers and reduce certain regulatory burdens on agencies.

Equality Act 2010

Reference
Chapter 15
Effective
1 October 2010

The Equality Act 2010 imposes a duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled persons to facilitate access to education, employment, housing, goods and services like shops, banks, cinemas, hospitals, council offices, leisure centres, associations and private clubs like the Scouts and Guides, private golf clubs and working men clubs.

Equality Act (Sex Equality Act Rule) (Exceptions) Regulations 2010

Effective
1 October 2010

The Equality Act 2010 requires occupational pension schemes to have a “sex equality rule” for the equal treatment of men and women. Under these regulations, certain rules, practices, actions and decisions relating to occupational pension schemes are excepted from this rule.

Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions for Pension Schemes) Order 2010

Effective
1 October 2010

This Order allows exceptions from the non-discrimination rule in the Equality Act 2010 as it applies to the protected characteristic of age for certain rules, practices, actions and decisions relating to occupational pension schemes. The exceptions applying to age also relate to payments by the employer to personal pension schemes.

Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No.2) Order 2010

Reference
SI 2010/1966 (C.104)
Effective
3 August 2010

The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No.2) Order 2010 commences further provisions of the Equality Act 2010.

National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

Effective
5 July 2010

The Government is introducing five statutory instruments, under the Pensions Act 2008, to establish the National Employment Savings Trust pension scheme (NEST).

Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2010

Reference
SI 2010/1736
Effective
5 July 2010

The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2010 has been issued.

Normal minimum pension age to rise

Effective
6 April 2010

Under the Finance Act 2004, the “normal minimum pension age” will increase from 50 to 55 from 6 April 2010. The normal minimum pension age is the age at which people can start receiving money from their occupational or personal pension schemes without paying extra tax.

Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010

Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations introduce a new entitlement for employees who are fathers or partners of mothers or adopters (of either sex) to take additional paternity leave in the first year of their child’s life or the first year after the child’s placement for adoption. The provisions have effect in relation to children whose expected week of birth, or notification of being matched for adoption, begins on or after 3 April 2011. However, employees are protected against detriment or dismissal attributable to the fact they took or sought to take such leave from 6 April 2010.

Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Birth, Adoption and Adoptions from Overseas) (Administration) Regulations 2010

Reference
2010 No. 154
Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations set out how employers can reclaim the additional statutory paternity pay they give their employees. The Regulations also establish employers’ duties with regard to record keeping and informing employees when employees are not entitled to the pay.

Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (General) Regulations 2010

Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations introduce a new entitlement for employees who are fathers or who are the partners of mothers or adopters to receive additional statutory paternity pay from their employers. The Regulations apply to children born or matched for adoption on or after 3 April 2011.

Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations specify that the lower earnings limit for Class 1 National Insurance contributions will increase from £95 to £97 on 6 April 2010.

Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2010

Effective
6 April 2010

These regulations set the weekly rate of payment of additional statutory paternity pay at the smaller of £124.88 and 90% of the employee’s normal weekly earnings.

Pensions Act 2007

Effective
6 April 2010

The Pensions Act 2007 contains powers to restore the link between the Basic State Pension and earnings, raise the State Pension Age to 68 by 2046 and aims to make the system fairer for women and carers by 2010.

Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

Reference
No./Reference: 2010 No. 137
Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations change the format and content of medical statements so they provide information that might help a patient return to work sooner.

Employee Study and Training (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2010

Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations relate to an employee’s right to request to spend time undertaking study or training. They say that the request must: be in writing, be dated and state the last date (if any) when the employee made a request and how it was submitted.

Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2010

Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations are being introduced to protect claimants who enter damages-based agreements relating to employment matters (such as those with no-win-no-fee lawyers).

Employee Study and Training (Procedural Requirements) Regulations 2010

Reference
No./Reference: 2010 No. 155
Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations relate to the employee’s right to request to spend time undertaking study or training. They set out how an employer must deal with such requests.

Employee Study and Training (Qualifying Period of Employment) Regulations 2010

Reference
SI 2010 No. 800
Effective
6 April 2010

These Regulations relate to an employee’s right to request to spend time undertaking study or training.

Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2010

Effective
4 April 2010

New rates for Statutory maternity pay (SMP), statutory adoption pay (SAP) and statutory paternity pay (SPP) come into effect on Sunday 4 April 2010.

Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010

Reference
No./Reference 2010 No. 493
Effective
2 March 2010

These regulations prohibit the compilation, use, sale or supply of blacklists containing details of trade union members and activists whose purpose is to discriminate against workers on grounds of trade union membership or activities.

Employment Rights (Revision of Limits) Order 2009

Reference
SI 2009 No. 3274
Effective
1 February 2010

This Order sets out the increases in awards of compensation that can be ordered by an employment tribunal with effect from 1 February 2010.

Working Time (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

Reference
2009 No. 2766
Effective
2 November 2009

The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/1567) amended the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) so that certain doctors in training can work up to 52 hours a week until 31 July 2011. Most doctors are restricted to a 48-hour week from 1 August 2009 (see Working Time Amendment Regulations 2003).

Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (No.2) Regulations 2009

Effective
12 October 2009

These regulations extend the purposes for which an application for an enhanced criminal records certificate can be made. Since 12 October 2009 applications can be made for any activity that is a “regulated activity” under the Vetting and Barring Scheme, established by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006

Effective
31 March 2010

The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 has been amended in preparation for the commencement of registration with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) in July 2010. The amendments have been made in response to recommendations by Sir Roger Singleton in Drawing the Line, his report on the Vetting and Barring Scheme which was published in December 2009. The changes affect who is covered by the Scheme.

Statutory Redundancy Pay Increase

Effective
1 October 2009

In the 2009 Budget, delivered on 22 April, the Government announced a one-off increase in the level of statutory redundancy pay, making the weekly rate £380 instead of £350 (as it had been from 1 February). This will make the maximum amount of statutory redundancy pay (20 years x 1.5 weeks x £380) £11,400.

National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Effective
1 October 2009

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2009 increase the minimum hourly rate of the national minimum wage from £5.73 to £5.80 per hour and the development rate from £4.77 to £4.83 per hour from 1 October 2009.

Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2009

Reference
SI 2009/2343
Effective
1 October 2009

These regulations increase the weekly amount a person can earn while still being entitled to employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit and other benefits.

Accession (Immigration and Workers Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Effective
29 April 2009

The Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) Regulations 2004 set up the workers registration system (WRS) regulating access to the UK labour market by nationals from eight of the States (“the A8”) that acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004.

Gangmasters (Licensing Conditions) Rules 2009

Reference
SI 2009/307
Effective
6 April 2009

The Gangmasters (Licensing Conditions) Rules 2009 have been issued.

Employers to use new P45 form

Effective
6 April 2009

From 6 April, employers have been required to use the new style P45 form. It was initially introduced by HM Revenue and Customs in October 2008 and was therefore already available before this date. Any old style P45 forms are now invalid.

Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (Tribunal Composition) Order 2009

Effective
6 April 2009

This Order adds holiday pay to the list of jurisdictions normally heard by an employment judge sitting alone.

Employment Act 2008 (ss 8, 9, 11, 12, 19 and Parts 2 and 4 of the Schedule)

Effective
6 April 2009

The Employment Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 brings into force the remaining provisions of the Act including ss 8, 9, 11,12, 19 and Parts 2 and 4 of the Schedule.

Increase in Statutory Sick Pay

Effective
6 April 2009

Statutory Sick pay has been increased from £75.40 to £79.15 on 6 April 2009.

Extension to Right to Request Flexible Working

Effective
6 April 2009

The right to request flexible working has been extended to parents with children aged 16 and under.

Employment Code of Practice (Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures) Order 2009

Reference
SI 2009/771
Effective
6 April 2009

The Employment Code of Practice (Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures) Order 2009 has been issued.

Health and Safety Information for Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Reference
SI 2009/606
Effective
6 April 2009

These Regulations amend the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989, which require information relating to health, safety and welfare to be given to employees by means of posters or leaflets in the form approved by the Health and Safety Executive.

Amended TUPE Regulations

Effective
6 April 2009

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 came into force on 6 April 2009 to take account of the changes made by the Employment Act 2008.

Amended rules on trade union membership

Effective
6 April 2009

The Employment Act 2008, s 19 changes the expulsion and exclusion rules relating to trade union membership by amending ss 174 and 176 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

Increase in Statutory Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay

Effective
5 April 2009

Statutory Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay has increased from £117.18 to £123.06 on 5 April 2009.

New restrictions on employing migrant workers

Effective
1 April 2009

Under new regulations that came into force on 1 April 2009, employers cannot hire tier 2 migrant workers unless the role has been advertised for a minimum of two weeks on JobCentre Plus.

Migrant workers — tier 4 (students)

Effective
31 March 2009

From March 2009 adults wishing to study in the UK must apply for a Tier 4 Student Visa. The tier 4 Student Visa replaces the current UK Study Visa and allows an adult student to study in the UK with a licensed sponsor on the Tier 4 register of sponsors.

Migrant Workers — duty to carry out follow-up checks

Effective
28 February 2009

Employers should be aware that new yearly checking procedures apply to migrant workers employed on or after 29 February 2008 and that the first follow-up checks must have been carried out at the end of February 2009 where the migrant worker was employed at the end of February 2008.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2008

Effective
1 February 2009

The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2008 sets out the new limits for statutory redundancy payments and employment tribunal awards from 1 February 2009.

Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008

Effective
16 January 2009

The Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 increases the maximum penalties relating to certain health and safety offences by amending section 33 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974.

Race Relations Act 1976 (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Effective
22 December 2008

The Race Relations Act 1976 (Amendment) Regulations 2008 came into force on 22 December 2008 and give full effect to the principle of equal treatment between persons, irrespective of race or ethnic origin within the area of employment (and other areas).

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
No./Reference: 2008 No. 2771
Effective
1 December 2008

These Regulations concern eligibility to hold office as either a President of the employment tribunals in England and Wales and in Scotland or as a chairman of an employment tribunal in England and Wales and in Scotland. They reduce the qualifying period for eligibility for appointment from seven to five years.

Skilled Workers Under the Points Based System — (Tier 2) Statement of Intent

Effective
27 November 2008

Tier 2 of the new points-based immigration system, relating to the recruitment of skilled workers, came into force on 27 November 2008.

Temporary Workers and Youth Mobility Under the Points Based System — (Tier 5) Statement of Intent

Effective
27 November 2008

Tier 5 of the new points-based immigration system concerns temporary workers and those coming to the UK under youth mobility schemes.

Energy Act 2008

Effective
26 November 2008

The Energy Act sets out a range of measures to address the challenges of tackling climate change and securing energy supplies.

Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Effective
27 October 2008

Under these regulations, since 27 October 2008 employers have no longer been required to provide detailed information about statutory sick pay (SSP) to leavers or when SSP cannot be paid. The Regulations aim to reduce costs for business, charities and the voluntary sector.

Fixed-Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Amendment Regulations 2008

Effective
27 October 2008

These amendment regulations enable agency workers with contracts of three months or less to have the same access to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) as other workers.

Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008

Effective
27 October 2008

These Regulations, made under the Welfare Reform Act 2007, introduce a new benefit, employment and support allowance (“ESA”), for claimants assessed as having “limited capability for work” because of a health condition or disability. ESA will replace Incapacity Benefit, and Income Support on the basis of incapacity.

Maternity and Parental leave etc and the Paternity and Adoption leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Effective
5 October 2008

These regulations came into force in July 2008 and apply to employees whose expected week of childbirth begins on or after 5 October 2008 and employees whose child is expected to be placed with them for adoption after that date.

Occupational Pension Schemes (Transfer Values) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Effective
1 October 2008

These Regulations make amendments to provisions about the calculation and verification of transfer values (the amount that may be transferred from one pension scheme to another).

National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
SI 2008 No. 1894
Effective
1 October 2008

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2008 increase the minimum hourly rate of the national minimum wage from £5.52 to £5.73 per hour and the development rate from £4.60 to £4.77 per hour from 1 October 2008.

Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
SI 2008 No. 1765
Effective
1 October 2008

These Regulations amend the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006

Effective
12 October 2008

The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 was published on 1 March 2006 and received Royal Assent on 8 November 2006.

Employment Act

Effective
13 November 2008

The Employment Bill received Royal Assent on 13 November and is now the Employment Act 2008.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Barring Procedure) Regulations 2008

Reference
SI 2008 No. 474
Effective
7 April 2008

The Independent Safeguarding Authority is being established to prevent those who are deemed unsuitable from working or volunteering with children and vulnerable people.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Prescribed Criteria) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008

Reference
2008
Effective
7 April 2008

The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 requires the Independent Barring Board (now the Independent Safeguarding Authority) to include those subject to existing restrictions in the new barred lists.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2008

Reference
2008 No. 473
Effective
7 April 2008

This Order, made under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, makes transitional provision in relation to those subject to existing restrictions relating to working with children or vulnerable adults.

Disability Discrimination (Public Authorities) (Statutory Duties) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
2008 No. 641
Effective
6 April 2008

These Regulations amend the Disability Discrimination (Public Authorities) (Statutory Duties) Regulations 2005.

Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Reference
No./Reference: 2007 No. 3575
Effective
6 April 2008

These draft regulations amend the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008

Reference
2008 No. 731
Effective
6 April 2008

These Regulations amend existing legislation governing an employer’s liability to a defined benefit pension scheme when it severs its link with the scheme.

Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

Reference
Chapter 19
Effective
6 April 2008

The Act creates an offence of corporate manslaughter in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and corporate homicide in Scotland.

Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
SI 2008 No.573
Effective
6 April 2008

These regulations make minor amendments to the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006.

Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2008

Reference
SI 2008
Effective
6 April 2008

Under the provisions of this Order, the rates of Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay, increase to £117.18 per week (or 90% of the person’s average weekly earnings if that is less than £117.18) on 6 April 2008.

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
SI 2008 No. 656
Effective
6 April 2008

Amendments that affect pregnancy and maternity leave will come into force through the Maternity and Parental Leave etc Regulations 1999 and will apply to women whose babies are due on or after 5 October 2008.

Gangmasters (Licensing Conditions) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2008

Reference
SI 2008 No. 638
Effective
6 April 2008

These Rules amend the Gangmasters (Licensing Conditions) (No.2) Rules 2006 which established the procedure for licensing gangmasters covered by the provisions of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 and the conditions that will apply to the licences.

Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007

Reference
2007 No. 1166
Effective
1 April 2008

These Regulations set out provisions relating to benefits, membership and contributions in the new Local Government Pension Scheme which will come into existence on 1 April 2008 and replace the Local Government Pension Scheme 1997.

Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008

Reference
2008 No. 238
Effective
1 April 2008

These Regulations set out transitional provisions relating to members of the Local Government Pension Scheme 1997, which is to be replaced by the new Local Government Pension Scheme from 1 April 2008.

Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (General Levy) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Reference
2008 No. 661
Effective
1 April 2008

These Regulations amend the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (General Levy) Regulations 2005.

Pension Protection Fund (Pension Compensation Cap) Order 2008

Effective
1 April 2008

This draft Order sets the cap on annual compensation payable to a person who has lost their pension and is covered by the Pension Protection Fund.

Occupational Pension Schemes (Levies) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Effective
31 March 2008

These Regulations amend the Occupational Pension Schemes (Levies) Regulations 2005.

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

Reference
2006 Chapter 13
Effective
29 February 2008

The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act, which was unveiled as a Bill on 22 June 2005 and enacted on 30 March 2006, will tackle illegal working through a new civil penalties scheme for employers by introducing fines of up to £10,000 per illegal employee, custodial sentences of up to two years and unlimited fines for those found knowingly to use or exploit illegal workers.

The Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) Order 2007

Effective
29 February 2008

This Order specifies the maximum penalty which may be imposed by the Secretary of State under section 15(2) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) Order 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 3290
Effective
29 February 2008

This Order was made under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 3570
Effective
1 February 2008

The increases to tribunal award limits from 1 February 2008 are set out in the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2007.

Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007

Effective
1 December 2007

The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007 brings into force those provisions of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 that create a new title of Employment Judge.

Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 2286
Effective
1 October 2007

These regulations amend the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002 in respect of the categories of person entitled to make a request under the statutory right for employees to request a contract variation to care for a child or an adult. The right is provided for in the Employment Rights Act 1996 as amended by the Work and Families Act 2006.

Childcare Act 2006

Reference
Chapter 21
Effective
Various dates in 2007

The Childcare Act, which sets out new provisions for young children’s care and education came into force in April 2007.

Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007/2079
Effective
1 October 2007

These regulations increase the statutory minimum for paid holiday entitlement.

Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007/2079
Effective
1 October 2007

The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007 amend the Working Time Regulations 1998.

Welfare Reform Act 2007

Reference
2007 Chapter 5
Effective
2008

The Welfare Reform Bill received Royal Assent on 3 May 2007 and builds on the Welfare Reform Green Paper and consultation “A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work”.

Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 765
Effective
1 July 2007

These Regulations, which apply only to England, provide exemptions from the smoke-free requirements of the Health Act 2006 and provide for most public and work vehicles to be smoke-free under that Act.

Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 923
Effective
1 July 2007

These Regulations are made under the Health Act 2006 and contain requirements which relate to the display of no-smoking signs in smoke-free premises and vehicles in England.

Health Act 2006

Effective
1 July 2007

The Health Act 2006 includes a requirement that all enclosed public places and workplaces will become smoke-free in England and Wales.

Smoke-free (Vehicle Operators and Penalty Notices) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 760
Effective
1 July 2007

These Regulations, made under the Health Act 2006 relate to smoke-free places (premises and vehicles) in England.

Sex Discrimination (Public Authorities) (Statutory Duties) (Scotland) Order 2007

Reference
SSI 2007 No.32
Effective
9 April 2007

This Order imposes specific gender equality duties on the Scottish public bodies and authorities listed in the Schedule to the Order.

Disability Discrimination (Public Authorities) (Statutory Duties) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Effective
6 April 2007

Summary

Work and Families Act 2006

Reference
2006 Chapter 18
Effective
1 October 2006; 1 and 6 April 2007

The Work and Families Bill received Royal Assent on 21 June 2006 and the Work and Families Act 2006 will deliver commitments outlined in the Ten Year Childcare Strategy and set out in the Government's response to the consultation “Work and Families: Choice and Flexibility” that closed on 25 May 2005.

Employment Equality (Age) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No. 825
Effective
6 April 2007

These regulations make various amendments to legislation so that it complies with the age strand of Directive 2000/78 EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and vocational training. They include the following changes:

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Public Authorities) (Statutory Duties) Order 2006

Reference
2006 No. 2930
Effective
6 April 2007

This Order imposes specific gender equality duties on public authorities listed in the Schedule to the Order.

Equality Act 2006

Reference
2006 Chapter 3
Effective
1 April 2007

The Equality Act 2006 came into force in April 2007.

Accession (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No.475
Effective
16 March 2007

These regulations amend the Accession (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2006 to allow Bulgarian and Romanian students to work full time during their vacations or as part of their vocational training and for four months after the completion of their studies without the need for authorisation.

Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006 (Commencement) Order 2007

Reference
SI 2007 No.153
Effective
20 February 2007

The regulations bring into force the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006. This act provides a new protection to emergency workers, making it a specific offence to obstruct or hinder emergency workers such as firefighters.

Disability Discrimination Act 2005

Effective
2005

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005, which will amend the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, comes into force in stages between 5 December 2005 and 4 December 2006.

Disability Discrimination Code of Practice (Goods, Facilities, Services and Premises) (Revocation) Order 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No.1966
Effective
2006

The Disability Discrimination Code of Practice (Goods, Facilities, Services and Premises) (Revocation) Order 2006 have been issued.

Employment Equality (Age) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No. 2931
Effective
1 December 2006

The Employment Equality (Age) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 set out how occupational pension schemes must comply with the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. These amendments bring into force more exemptions for employers and trustees of pension schemes to rely on in Schedule 2 of the regulations. From 1 December 2006, every occupational pension scheme will be treated as if it has a non-discrimination rule.

Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Reference
SI 2006/2523
Effective
1 November 2006

These regulations amend the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000 No. 1059) including the clarification and updating of certain references.

National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No. 4652
Effective
1 October 2006

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2006 increase the minimum hourly rate of the national minimum wage from £5.05 to £5.35 per hour and the development rate from £4.25 to £4.45 per hour from 1 October 2006.

Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Effective
1 October 2006

These regulations amend provisions relating to adoption leave in the current Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations and arise from the Work and Families Act 2006.

Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No.
Effective
1 October 2006

The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 mirror the introduction of these regulations in Great Britain and are necessary to implement the age strand of the EU Employment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) in Northern Ireland.

Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Effective
1 October 2006

These regulations, effective from 1 October 2006, arise from the Work and Families Act 2006 and amend the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002 to extend the right to request flexible working to carers of adults from 6 April 2007.

Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1541
Effective
1 October 2006

The Order reforms the law relating to fire safety in non-domestic premises in England and Wales.

Statutory Maternity Pay, Social Security (Maternity Allowance) and Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No. 2379
Effective
1 October 2006

The Statutory Maternity Pay, Social Security (Maternity Allowance) and Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 have been issued.

Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No. 1947 (NI 16)
Effective
26 July 2006 (and other appointed days)

This Order replicates measures in the Work and Families Act 2006. It covers statutory rights to leave and pay in connection with the birth or adoption of children, and the right for carers to request flexible working.

Disability Discrimination (Guidance on the Definition of Disability) Appointed Day Order 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No.1005
Effective
2006

The Disability Discrimination (Guidance on the Definition of Disability) Appointed Day Order 2006 has been issued.

Disability Discrimination (Guidance on the Definition of Disability) Revocation Order 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No.1007
Effective
2006

The Disability Discrimination (Guidance on the Definition of Disability) Revocation Order 2006 has been issued.

Disability Discrimination Code of Practice (Supplement to Part 3 Code of Practice) (Provision and Use of Transport Vehicles) (Appointed Day) Order 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No.1094
Effective
18 April 2006

This Order appoints 18 April 2006 as the coming into effect of the supplement to the Code of Practice on the duties under Part 3 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 entitled “Provision and Use of Transport Vehicles”, which was issued by the Disability Rights Commission on 11 April 2006.

Pensions Act 2004

Reference
SI 2004 Chapter 35
Effective
6 April 2006

Under ss. 269 and 284 of the Pensions Act 2004, payments made by employers and members to occupational pension schemes, and restrictions on commutation and age at which benefits may be received came into force on 6 April 2006 under the Pensions Act 2004 (Commencement No. 6, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2005.

Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No. 99
Effective
6 April 2006

The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2006 came into force on 6 April 2006.

Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006

Reference
SI 2006 No. 246
Effective
6 April 2006

The DTI published a consultation document, containing draft revised regulations, on the proposed revision of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (TUPE). Consultation closed on 7 June 2005. The revised TUPE regulations — the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 — were due to come into force on 1 October 2005 but due to the large volume of responses to the consultation exercise, the regulations came into force on 6 April 2006.

Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005

Reference
2005 asp 13
Effective
26 March 2006

The Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill received Royal Assent on 5 August 2005 and the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 came into force on 26 March 2006.

Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 3525
Effective
3 January 2006

These Regulations amend the sound power limits for certain equipment in the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations 2001.

General Product Safety Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1803
Effective
2005

These Regulations implement Directive 2001/95/EC on general product safety. They impose requirements concerning the safety of products intended for consumers or which are likely to be used by consumers.

Disability Discrimination (Public Authorities) (Statutory Duties) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2966
Effective
5 December 2005

Summary

Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2050
Effective
5 December 2005

This Order amends the Pension Schemes Act 1993 and subordinate legislation, making provision for surviving civil partners to receive pensions under contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes — tying in with the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc Provisions) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2053
Effective
5 December 2005

This Order makes amendments to provisions of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners — tying in with the forthcoming Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Civil Partnership Act 2004

Reference
Chapter 33
Effective
5 December 2005

The Civil Partnership Bill received Royal Assent on 18 November 2004 with implementation of the Civil Partnership Act on 5 December 2005.

Volatile Organic Compounds in Paints, Varnishes and Vehicle Refinishing Products Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No.2773
Effective
1 November 2005

These regulations were revoked by the Volatile Organic Compounds in Paints, Varnishes and Vehicle Refinishing Products Regulations 2012.

Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2571
Effective
31 October 2005

The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 have been issued.

Employment Relations Act 2004

Reference
2004 Chapter 24
Effective
1 October 2005

Measures contained in the Act came into force in 2004 and its implementation was completed on 1 October 2005.

Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1871
Effective
1 October 2005

This legislation amends the Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 to implement the Employment Relations Act 2004, s.36, which, by amending the Employment Tribunals Act 1996, section 10(6), provides that certain powers available to employment tribunals under employment tribunal procedure regulations for use in national security proceedings can be used in particular proceedings, whether or not they are Crown employment proceedings, if the tribunal considers it expedient in the interests of national security. The Rules also replace Form 1 (Notice of Appeal from Employment Tribunal) with a new version and make amendments to Form 3 (Respondent's Answer).

Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2464
Effective
1 October 2005

This Order amends the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 1999 by making changes to the list of prescribed persons to whom a protected disclosure can be made.

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1865
Effective
1 October 2005

The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 are effective from 1 October 2005 and amend the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004 (as amended by the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure (Amendment) Regulations 2005).

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 435
Effective
1 October 2005

The new tribunal claim form (ET1) and response form (ET3) are mandatory for all tribunal claims and responses from 1 October 2005. The final versions of the forms are available from the Employment Tribunals website.

Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2467
Effective
1 October 2005

The Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005 implement the amended Equal Treatment Directive (2002/73/EC) and are effective from 1 October 2005.

Working Time Regulations 1998 (Amendment) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 2241
Effective
1 September 2005

This order amends the application of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) to the police in consequence of the coming into force of section 158 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (the 2005 Act).

Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1676
Effective
2005

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2005 has been issued.

Control of Major Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1088
Effective
2005

These regulations have been revoked by the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No. 483).

Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1308
Effective
3 June 2005

The Regulations amend the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 ("the 2002 Regulations").

Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 1122
Effective
6 April 2005

This Order provides for the coming into force of s.49 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Work at Height Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005/735
Effective
6 April 2005

These regulations set out requirements for the management of risks from working at height.

Transfer of Employment (Pension Protection) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 649
Effective
6 April 2005

Under the Transfer of Employment (Pension Protection) Regulations 2005, new employers will be required to provide transferred employees with a substantial pension contribution in a business transfer where the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) apply.

Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 639
Effective
4 April 2005

These regulations implement Directive 2002/15/EC on the working time of persons performing mobile road transport services. Their main effect is to restrict mobile workers, notably drivers of commercial goods and passenger vehicles, to an average working week of 48 hours and an absolute average of 60 hours.

Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 639
Effective
4 April 2005

The new working time regulations for the road transport sector are scheduled came into force on 4 April 2005.

Health Protection Agency Act 2004 (Commencement) Order 2005

Reference
SI 2005 No. 121
Effective
31 January and 1 April 2005

This Order brings into force various provisions of the Act.

Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2004

Reference
SI 2004/3372
Effective
1 April 2005

These Regulations amend the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 with effect from 1 April 2005. The main changes are as follows.

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Effective
1 January 2005

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 was passed by parliament on 30 November 2000 and has been implemented in stages. Full implementation occurred on 1 January 2005. The Act gives individuals the right to access information held by public authorities, including:

Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004

Reference
SI 2004 No. 752
Effective
1 October 2004

Statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures came into force on 1 October 2004 with the aim of encouraging resolution of disputes in the workplace. All employers should have in place minimum statutory procedures for dealing with dismissal, disciplinary action and grievances in the workplace, and inform their employees. The procedures will also apply to certain redundancy and retirement situations and non-renewal of fixed term contracts.

Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003

Reference
SI 2003 No. 3319
Effective
6 April 2004

These regulations came into force on 6 April 2004 and replace the previous regulations governing employment agencies. They introduce new safeguards requiring employment agencies to vet temps who work with vulnerable groups, such as children, the elderly and the infirm.

Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Reference
SI 2004/573
Effective
1 April 2004

These Regulations make various amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 with effect from 1 April 2004, with the exception of regulations 27 to 32 (changes to the dispute resolution procedures), which took effect from 1 June 2004. The main changes are as follows.

Framework Employment Directive

Reference
2000/78/EC
Effective
2 December 2003

The Council Directive establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (or the Framework Employment Directive) laid down a general framework for combating discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation as regards employment and occupation, with a view to putting into effect the principle of equal treatment in the Member States.

Directive 2003/88/EC concerning working time

Reference
Directive 2003/88/EC
Effective
23 November 1996 and 1 August 2003

The original Working Time Directive 93/104/EC was amended by Directive 2000/34/EC and the two were then consolidated and replaced by Directive 2003/88/EC.

Equal Pay Act 1970 (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Reference
SI 2003 No. 1656
Effective
19 July 2003

These regulations introduced the following key changes from 19 July 2003: compensation may be backdated to cover six years instead of only two, and the time limit for bringing a claim is extended to six months from the date of discovery if the employer deliberately concealed facts.

Directive 2000/43/EC on race

Reference
Directive 2000/43/EC
Effective
19 July 2003

A companion to Directive 2000/78, which covered wider issues of discrimination, the Council Directive implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (or the Race Directive), dealt solely with race and ethnic origin. It prohibited discrimination in the areas of vocational training and employment, social protection and access to and provision of services.

Sex Discrimination (Indirect Discrimination and Burden of Proof) Regulations 2001

Reference
SI 2001 No. 2660
Effective
12 October 2001

The Burden of Proof Directive, which was adopted on 15 December 1997, was extended to the UK in 1998 (Directive 98/52). It was finally implemented by the Sex Discrimination (Indirect Discrimination and Burden of Proof) Regulations 2001.

Acquired Rights Directive

Reference
2001/23/EC
Effective
16 February 1979 and 17 July 2001

In light of a number of rulings given by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concerning the original Acquired Rights Directive (and its amendment, 98/50/EC), the legal concepts were clarified by 2001/23/EC which gave the authoritative definition of a transfer of undertaking as being when “there is a transfer of an economic entity which retains its identity, meaning an organised grouping of resources which has the objective of pursuing an economic activity, whether or not that activity is central or ancillary”.

Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000

Effective
2 April 2001

The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 came into force in April 2001. Its main functions are to:

Human Rights Act 1998

Reference
1998 Chapter 42
Effective
2 October 2000

The Human Rights Act 1998 received Royal Assent in 1998 and came into force on 2 October 2000. Since coming into force, the Human Rights Act has made fundamental civil and political rights and freedoms enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) enforceable in the UK's courts.

Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999

Reference
SI 1999/3232
Effective
1 January and 13 May 2000

These regulations were revoked and replaced by the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017.

Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000

Reference
SI 2000/128
Effective
21 February 2000

These regulations impose safety requirements with respect to pressure systems used or intended to be used at work. They also impose safety requirements to prevent certain vessels from becoming pressurised.

Directive 97/23/EC concerning pressure equipment

Reference
97/23/EC
Effective
29 November 1999

Directive 97/23/EC (known as the Pressure Equipment Directive or PED) entered fully into force in the UK on 29 November 1999.

Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Reference
SI 1995 No. 2587
Effective
28 July 1999

The Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (which replace the 1995 regulations of the same name) came into force on 28 July 1999.

National Minimum Wage Act 1998

Reference
1998 (Chapter 39)
Effective
1999

The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 came into force on 1 April 1999. It provides for a single national minimum wage (NMW). It covers all workers employed under a contract, including part timers, contract workers and home workers.

Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998

Reference
SI 1998 No. 2307
Effective
5 December 1998

These Regulations impose health and safety requirements with respect to lifting equipment.

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

Reference
SI 1998 No. 2306
Effective
5 December 1998

These Regulations impose health and safety requirements with respect to the provision and use of work equipment.

Working Time Regulations 1998

Reference
SI 1998 No. 1833
Effective
1 October 1998

These regulations give employees rights over their maximum working time, the length of night work, rest breaks and annual leave entitlements.

Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998

Reference
1998 Ch 8
Effective
Various

The Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (Chapter 8) came into force in stages throughout 1998 and 1999 in the main. The Unfair Dismissal Arbitration scheme provision came into force in May 2001.

Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998

Reference
SI 1998 No. 494
Effective
1 April 1998

These regulations draw a line between the responsibilities of the HSE and the local authorities for enforcement of the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974.

Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996

Reference
SI 1996/551
Effective
1 April 1996 and 31 October 1996

These regulations provide for the preparation and acceptance of safety cases in respect of the conveyance of gas in a network and impose requirements in respect of gas escapes and the composition and pressure of gas.

Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996

Reference
SI 1996 No. 1513
Effective
1 October 1996

These regulations provide for further implementation, within Great Britain, of Council Directive 89/391/EEC (the “Framework Directive”) on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the health and safety of employees at work.

Employment Rights Act 1996

Effective
1996

The Employment Rights Act 1996, which came into force on 22 August 1996, consolidated most of the existing law on individual employment rights. Most of these rights were previously contained in the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 which had been much amended by subsequent Acts.

Young Workers Directive

Reference
94/33/EC
Effective
22 June 1996

The Council Directive on the protection of young people at work applied to all young people with an employment contract or in an employment relationship defined by national law in force.

Directive 92/85/EEC on new and expectant mothers

Reference
Directive 92/85/EEC
Effective
19 October 1994

This directive — Council Directive on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (10th individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) — laid down that exposure of such workers to certain risks must be avoided by provisionally adjusting their working conditions or hours.

Collective Redundancies Directive

Reference
98/59/EC
Effective
22 February 1977 and 26 August 1994

The Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies (or the Collective Redundancies Directive) required that any employer contemplating collective redundancies must hold consultations with workers' representatives with a view to reaching an agreement. These consultations had to at least cover ways and means of avoiding redundancies or reducing the number of workers affected and mitigating the consequences, in particular by recourse to accompanying social measures aimed at redeploying or retraining those workers made redundant.

Workplace Directive

Reference
89/654/EEC
Effective
31 December 1992

This Directive (the Council Directive concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace (first individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)) defined the term "workplace" to mean the place which houses workstations and any other place within the area of the undertaking to which the worker has access in the course of his or her employment.

Directive 90/269/EEC on manual handling

Reference
Directive 90/269/EEC
Effective
31 December 1992

Within the context of this directive — the Council Directive on the minimum health and safety requirements for the manual handling of loads where there is a risk particularly of back injury to workers (fourth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC — manual handling of loads referred to the transporting or supporting of a load, by one or more workers, including lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling or carrying an object which involved a risk of back injury.

Control of Explosives Regulations 1991

Reference
SI 1991 No. 1531
Effective
1 January 1991

These regulations make provisions for controlling the acquisition and keeping of explosives. With some specified exceptions, the acquisition or keeping of explosives except in accordance with an explosives certificate is prohibited. Explosives certificates are issued by the chief officers of police, if satisfied as to the fitness of the applicant and the other matters specified in the regulations. The transfer of explosives is restricted and the handling, etc of explosives by, and related employment of, prohibited persons is precluded. The descriptions and quantities of explosives that may be kept for private use are limited. Occupiers of a factory or magazine licensed under the Explosives Act 1875 are required to appoint an individual to be responsible to them for security. Further information from the Stationery Office.

Health and Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1990

Reference
SI 1990 No. 1380
Effective
8 August 1990

These Regulations give the protection for and duties of employees as defined in the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 to those who are provided with “relevant training”.

Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986

Reference
SI 1986 No. 1510
Effective
1 January 1986

Statutory powers to control pesticides are contained within Part III of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (FEPA). The Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 (COPR), as amended, set out the mechanism by which the requirements of the FEPA are to be achieved. The COPR define, in detail, those types of pesticides that are subject to control and those that are excluded; prescribe the approvals required before any pesticide may be sold, stored, supplied, used or advertised and allow for general conditions of sale, supply, storage, advertisement and use, including aerial application, of pesticides.

Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981

Effective
In force

The law relating to transfers of undertakings stems from a 1977 European Directive (77/187/EEC) that was designed to safeguard employees’ rights when businesses (or parts of businesses) are taken over. The directive was implemented in the UK by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (TUPE).

Equal Pay Directive

Reference
75/117/EEC
Effective
19 February 1976

Under the Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women (or the Equal Pay Directive), Member States were required to abolish all discrimination between men and women arising from laws or regulations which did not comply with the principle of equal pay. They had to take the necessary measures to ensure that provisions appearing in collective agreements, wage scales, wage agreements or individual contracts of employment which were contrary to the principle might be declared null and void. They had also to ensure that the principle was applied and that effective means were available to take care that it was observed.

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