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Childcare Counsel - Employment Law changes 2020

Our new team of lawyers from Morgan LaRoche offer advice on a range of legal issues. This month, Hannah Dahill, director, covers the changes set to take place with employment law, mostly from April
Hannah Dahill
Hannah Dahill

1. Contracts of employment:

a. Employers will have to provide employees with a contract on or before day one of employment. At the moment this can be provided within the first eight weeks.

b. Contracts will need to be provided to employees and workers. Currently, workers are not legally entitled to a contract. (A worker is someone who works or undertakes to perform personally work or services for the business.)

c. The information required to go into these contracts is expanding to include training and benefits.

2. Changes to holiday pay calculations – currently if staff have variable hours, to calculate holiday pay an average is taken of hours worked and pay received over the last 12 weeks. From April, employers will have to take an average over the previous 52 weeks of employment.

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