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Employment weekly: Budget 2024, NLW uplift to 21+, sexual harassment duty, redundancy and pensions rulings, Data Use and Access Bill, TUPE to Ofcom, immigration rollout, gender pay gap

Published on: 31 October 2024

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In this issue:

  • Horizon scanning
  • ESG and sustainability: employment issues
  • Pay
  • Pensions
  • Prohibited conduct (discrimination etc)
  • Prohibited conduct protection at work
  • Diversity and gender pay gap
  • Financial services and banking: employment issues
  • Data protection and employee information
  • TUPE and asset purchases
  • Redundancy
  • Immigration
  • Europe—EU – Ireland
  • Dates for your diary
  • Trackers
  • New Q&As
  • Employment resources on Lexis+®
  • Daily and weekly news alerts

Horizon scanning

Autumn Budget 2024 – key Employment announcements and views from the market

On 30 October 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, confirmed, as anticipated, rises to employers’ National Insurance contributions (NICs), alongside increases to the national living wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) from April 2025. Also noteworthy for employment lawyers are a larger Employment Allowance, anti-avoidance measures aimed at the umbrella company market, and clarification of the tax position of statutory neonatal care pay. See: LNB News 30/10/2024 67.

ESG and sustainability: employment issues

The ‘washing’ phenomenon—what UK businesses need to know

Driven by market forces and evolving regulation, ESG credentials have, in recent years, moved firmly onto the boardroom agenda...

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