Budget 2016 Round Up – What do employers need to know?

The Chancellor’s Budget today revealed a few surprises. However the key aspects for employers were the introduction of compulsory national insurance contributions (NICs) on termination payments over £30,000, and an increase in the threshold for personal tax contributions. The Chancellor claimed this was “a budget for working people” and announced that from April 2017, the tax threshold will rise to …

Zero hours contracts – exclusivity clauses banned

Zero hours contracts have been a hot topic for some time and you may recall the Government conducted a consultation exercise about them back in 2014.  The main conclusion reached from that consultation was that exclusivity clauses in zero hour’s contracts needed to be addressed. The usual aim of a zero hours contract (also known as a casual or bank …