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2006 saw employers acquiring to grips near age favouritism and the new TUPE polity. Here, we exterior at what is in stock for 2007.

Work and families

Last July we looked at the Work and Families Act 2006 when the careful Regulations were unmoving in order of payment. We now have the ultimate magazine of the Regulations. The key changes to the law are as follows.

The new rules will utilise to employees whose babies are due to be given birth or placed for blessing on or after 1 April 2007.

Extension of parenthood quit period

Under the new Regulations all expectant team will be entitled to 52 weeks go away when their babies are calved.

Notice spell for instrument from pregnancy leave

Employees who choice to arrival to carry out faster than the end of their act maternity time off time will be essential to bequeath their leader 8 weeks make out.

Statutory Maternity Pay period

The enactment physiological state pay period of time will augmentation to 39 weeks from April 2007 - 6 weeks at 90% of pay and 33 weeks at the lying face down charge per unit (£108.85). The Government has proclaimed that it intends to develop the pay time period to one yr by the end of this Parliament (2009/10).

Keeping in touch days

The Regulations permit an employee on parenthood set off to agree next to their leader to employment for up to 10 days during their check out of in need delivery the be off to an end. This is to let workers to go to habituation courses or concern or skills updating minus prejudicing their parenthood move.

Reasonable Contact

Under the Regulations, employers are entitled to trade name 'reasonable contact' with human resources during parenthood depart.

Flexible working

The law at contribution provides that parents near 26 weeks' resource who have family underneath six (or nether 18 if the youngster has a disability) are qualified to utilise to toil flexibly. The Act extends this correct to carers of adults from 6 April 2007. The least resource measurement (26 weeks) will loiter the same.

An worker will be suitable to breed a substance to tough grind flexibly if he or she is compassionate for or expects to thought for an fully developed to whom they are wed or who is their partner (living equally) or well-bred domestic partner or who is a 'near relative', or an full-grown who lives at the one and the same code as they do. 'Near relative' will plan the employee's parents, parents-in-law, mature child, fully grown adopted child, siblings (including in-laws), uncles, aunts, grandparents or step-relatives.

There is no up-to-date message to widen this word-perfect to parents of family elderly linking 6 and 17 who do not have a poor shape.

Smoke-free toil places

Under new legislation, literally all capsulated and considerably included workplaces essential be smokeless from 1 July 2007 (there are a few deeply limited exemptions). This will include joint venture cars and other occupation vehicles. Designated 'smoking rooms' will no longer be allowed.

Employers will obverse fines if they permit personnel to aerosol at their workplace or if they fall short to salute fair no-smoking signs. Failure to demonstration a no-smoking representation will incur a fabulous of up to £1000 or a settled penalisation catch sight of of £200. Failing to prohibit smoking in what should be a smokeless situate will incur a impressive of up to £2,500.

Information and consultation

From 1 April 2007 the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 will increase the duty to sort going spare a standing on ceremony substance and investigation manner to all businesses employing at smallest possible 100 human resources.

New revenue enhancement of compensation

Any hand who is below the belt dismissed on or after 1 February 2007 will be competent to profess a highest compensatory trophy of £60,600. The charge of statutory repetitiousness pay will boost up to £310 per period (from the existing horizontal of £290 per week). The new maximal amount of a act repetitiveness costs will be £9,300.

New revenue enhancement of statutory pay

From 1 April 2007, the mean charge of Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption pay will be £112.75 per time period.

The time period charge per unit of Statutory Sick Pay will advance on 5 April 2007 to £72.55 (the current charge per unit is £70.05).