Employment law is legislation that regulates the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees. From the tax year commencing 6th April 2024, several changes to employment law have taken effect. In this article, ClouDoc outlines the updates you need to be aware of.<\/p>\n
In the 2024\/2025 tax year, the minimum wage has risen from \u00a310.42 to \u00a311.44 for workers over the age of 23 and from \u00a37.49 to \u00a38.60 for workers aged between 21-22. For employees under the age of 18, including apprentices, the minimum wage rose from \u00a35.28 to \u00a36.40.<\/p>\n
The rates of statutory sick pay have increased from \u00a3109.40 per week to \u00a3116.75 per week.<\/p>\n
The statutory rate for maternity and adoption pay has increased from \u00a3172.48 to \u00a3184.03 per week. In England, Scotland and Wales, employees are now able to split their 2 weeks paternity leave more flexibly.<\/p>\n
The Carer\u2019s Leave Act 2023 came into effect on 6th April 2024, requiring employers to make provisions for carers to take at least 1 week of unpaid leave per year.<\/p>\n
Employees are now able to make 2 requests per year for flexible working, starting from their first day of employment.<\/p>\n
Employees taking maternity, adoption or shared parental leave now have redundancy protection for a minimum of 18 months.<\/p>\n
If you have any questions, don\u2019t hesitate to contact us on 0330 808 0050 or email support@caredaily.co.uk.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Employment law is legislation that regulates the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees. From the tax year commencing 6th April 2024, several changes to employment law have taken effect. In this article, ClouDoc outlines the updates you need to be aware of. Changes to Pay Rates National Minimum Wage and Real Living Wage In the 2024\/2025 tax year, the minimum wage has risen from \u00a310.42 to \u00a311.44 for workers over the age of 23 and from \u00a37.49 to \u00a38.60 for workers aged between 21-22. For employees under the age of 18, including apprentices, the minimum wage rose from \u00a35.28 to \u00a36.40. Statutory Sick Pay The rates of statutory sick pay have increased from \u00a3109.40 per week to \u00a3116.75 per week. Family Friendly Payments and Entitlements The statutory rate for maternity and adoption pay has increased from \u00a3172.48 to \u00a3184.03 per week. In England, Scotland and Wales, employees are now able to split their 2 weeks paternity leave more flexibly. Carer’s Leave The Carer\u2019s Leave Act 2023 came into effect on 6th April 2024, requiring employers to make provisions for carers to take at least 1 week of unpaid leave per year. Flexible Working Requests Employees are now able to make 2 requests per year for flexible working, starting from their first day of employment. Protection From Redundancy Employees taking maternity, adoption or shared parental leave now have redundancy protection for a minimum of 18 months. If you have any questions, don\u2019t hesitate to contact us on 0330 808 0050 or email support@caredaily.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compliance","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caredaily.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}