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Employment Law Octoberfest?

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It’s here again, the second of the two days in the year when the government introduces new legislation and regulation and increases rates and allowances. Instead we could have been in Munich having some real fun.

Saturday saw the introduction of the long-awaited (and feared) Agency Workers Regulations.  Opinion on them varies between them being a fundamental step in ensuring fairness in the workplace to one of the greatest threats to the UK’s reputation as being a friendly place for businesses to do, well, business.  More on this in a later blog post, but here is the BBC’s report on it.

Work ’til you drop

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Dumbledore - final salary pension scheme?

The Government announced last week that the Default Retirement Age is to finally be abolished from next year. This means that by October 2011 it will no longer be lawful for employers to demand that their employees retire at 65. The previous government announced it was going to review the issue last year  veryshortly before the final hearing in the Heyday saga (and did so probably to avoid losing the case and face).