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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.

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.

Older Legislation in Force

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).

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.

Increase in state pension age

Effective
2018–2028

The Government plans to increase the state pension age.

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.

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.

Revisions to the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework

Effective
3 April 2017

The Department for Education (DfE) has published the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework which will come into force on 3 April 2017.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reform of Special Educational Needs — Children and Families Act 2014

Effective
1 September 2014

The Children and Families Act 2014 contains reforms to adoption, looked-after children, family justice and special educational needs (SEN).

Special Educational Needs (Personal Budgets) Regulations 2014

Effective
1 September 2014

The Special Educational Needs (Personal Budgets) Regulations 2014 set out the criteria, technical conditions and usage of personal budgets under Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014. The nature of education, health and care (EHC) plans means that most of the Regulations are aimed at local authorities (LAs).

Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014

Effective
1 September 2014

The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 are made under the Children and Families Act 2014. They are applicable to England only.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Protection of Workers Bill

Effective
Second reading in Parliament due 1 March 2013

This Bill aims to protect workers from violence at work.

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.

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

Effective
November 2009

The Government published a major piece of legislation in February 2009 covering most of the responsibilities of the Departments for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), and Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). The Bill, at 225 pages, is the longest Bill ever published by these departments. It became law in November 2009.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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