The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 was expected to come into force on 1st July 2024 but the Government has now announced that this will be delayed until 1st October 2024. Many hospitality workers rely on tips to top up their pay and are often left without any effective recourse if businesses don’t pass on service charges from customers to their staff.
At the beginning of the pandemic (almost four years ago now), workplaces across the nation had to vacate office premises and work from home until told otherwise. This bizarre new way of working on mass completely shocked both employers and employees, forcing a quick and sudden adaptation of operation and equipment. Suddenly PCs became laptops, meetings turned virtual and team catch ups took the form of Zoom quizzes. Looking at the way in which workplaces operate now, we have to credit (or blame) our COVID working practices for the flexibility that employees and workplaces have now and often expect. With a large majority of employees in the UK now able to work from home for at least half the week, the hybrid working model seems to have been a welcomed adjustment from the employee perspective!
Over the next week, we will provide you with a series of short blogs on the key employment law changes that are being introduced at the beginning of next month. This blog will specifically focus on the changes to the law in relation to redundancy that are due to come into force on 6th April 2024. This is the fifth and final blog in our series; please find the blogs on other upcoming changes here.
Over the next week, we will provide you with a series of short blogs on the key employment law changes that will be introduced at the beginning of next month. This blog will specifically focus on the changes to law in relation to annual leave and holiday pay that are due to come into force on 1st April 2024. This is the fourth blog in our series; please find the blogs on other upcoming changes here.
