There’s no statutory reason for Cathay Pacific to stop flying in typhoons, and it does fly if it’s safe to. However, when the T8 signal is raised, Hong Kong’s citizens are advised to go home and public transport starts winding down. At T10, people aren’t allowed to wor...
The ACA from ICAEW is an internationally recognised leading business and finance qualification. With exam centres and tuition providers now in many countries, students no longer need to come to the UK to become an ACA.
Welcome to Money, Sky News' consumer and personal finance hub. Today: A reader wants to know her rights in a dispute with a taxi firm in our weekly Money Problem; and Spain is set to reduce its working week, so we look at how it compares with the UK and elsewhere....
Work practices have changed and businesses are facing new challenges. Many companies are finding that their existing office is no longer suitable for their needs and are enabling hybrid working to support their teams who prefer to spend part of the week
In this type of overtime, employees are assured of their payment with or without services. This is because payments under the guaranteed overtime also cover services rendered on work hours of popular holidays and emergency call-in duty.
Always factor in gross pay, benefits, tax and National Insurance withholdings for each employee. You also need to considerStatutory Sick Pay(SSP), statutory pay for parents (maternal/paternal leave), tips, bonuses, pensions, and suspensions as they apply. ...
British fathers are being urged to join a world first "dad strike" in a protest about statutory paternity leave, which campaigners say is the least generous in Europe. The strike, organised by the campaign group The Dad Shift, argues that women will continue to face discrimination if low tak...
While bank holidays are not a statutory entitlement, employers can choose to include them as a part of the annual leave allowance or offer them as additional leave. With eight bank holidays in the UK a year (a couple more in Northern Ireland) it’s something you need to consider for all...
How much annual leave can a UK employee carry over? What does the law say? Employees must take all four weeks of EU statutory leave during their leave year. If they don't, these will be lost. The 1.6 weeks (or eight days if you work full-time) that the UK adds to this statutory...
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