2024: A year of many changes
A year of many changes
This year has seen many changes in employment legislation, starting on January 1 st with the ending of Covid holiday carry-over. Emergency rules on annual leave which were implemented in 2020 meant that workers could carry over four weeks of leave into the next two leave years if it wasn’t reasonably practicable for them to take them because of the effects of Covid. This has now been removed and employees who have ‘Covid carry-over leave’ accrued but have not yet taken it have until 31st March 2024 to use it. The rules remain the same for leave carried over for maternity or other family friendly leave, i.e. 5.6 weeks can be carried over to the following year and four weeks untaken leave due to long term sickness can still be carried over for 18 months after the end of the leave year in which it was accrued.
In April, as usual, there was the usual increase in minimum wage rates with the new NLW for those aged 21 and over increasing to £11.44ph, £8.60 for 18-20 year olds, £6.40 for 16-17 yar olds and Apprentices £6.40.
Also in April we also saw the following:-
- The introduction of Carers Leave.
- The requirement to have 26 weeks service before making a flexible working request was removed with employees now able to request flexible working from day one.
- Pregnant employees will have a right to enhanced treatment during a redundancy exercise.
- There will be a new method of calculating annual leave for irregular hours workers and part year workers.
- There are changes to the way partners of expectant mothers can take Paternity Leave.
Coming up in July:-
- There will be new rules on the method of consulting employees during a TUPE transfer.
- Employers in the leisure and tourist industries will be required to fairly allocate tips to workers.
And then from October:-
Employers will be obliged to proactively prevent sexual harassment within their organisations.
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