Employee Benefits
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill has received Royal Assent as of this month. Kate Palmer, HR advice and consultancy director at Peninsula, said: “Sexual harassment is unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
Employee Benefits
JUNE 24, 2024
Ian Stanley is registered as legally blind and was diagnosed with Bardet Biedl syndrome in 2010. They also advised designating a support worker or offering a high visibility vest, and that the Royal National Institute for Blind People or Access to Work could have been consulted for adjustments funding.
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Employee Benefits
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Where employers previously did not need to consult with workers before giving their decision, they will now be expected to, and to provide their response within two months instead of three. Although businesses do not have to agree to a request, they should remember legislation such as the Equality Act 2010.
Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa
JANUARY 31, 2023
Any amounts contributed while a participant is ineligible must be included in the participant’s taxable income and are subject to an additional 10% excise tax. Absent additional guidance, participants’ contributions to their HSAs during this period may be subject to the applicable income and excise taxes. cut scheduled for 2024.
Employee Benefits
AUGUST 30, 2023
Employers will also have to consult with the employee if they decline a request. Employees who are sick will likely trigger any employer or statutory sick pay , while care should always be taken around anyone with a disability or who is pregnant to discount any related illnesses to avoid claims under the Equality Act 2010.
Employee Benefits
MARCH 15, 2023
Hunt added that occupational health supports provided by employers were of the utmost importance, and the government would therefore bring forward two new consultations on how to improve its availability, as well as doubling the funding for the small companies subsidy pilot.
Employee Benefits
JANUARY 24, 2023
It outright rejected five of the Committee’s recommendations, including to consult on making menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, and to pilot a specific menopause leave policy. Making menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 would have given women clearer protection.”
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