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Government advertising campaign launches today to raise lowest paid workers’ knowledge of their rights ahead of the National Minimum and National Living Wage rates rise on 1 April
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
The independent LPC advises the government about National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates.
More than 350 employers have been named and shamed as the government publishes the largest ever list of national minimum and living wage offenders.
Employers and workers get to have their say on modern employment practices as government-backed Matthew Taylor Review team launches its UK tour.
New role will help small businesses resolve payment disputes with their larger customers
Guidance to help large businesses report on how quickly they pay their suppliers will be published today (31 January 2017).
Today the government is committing to making sure new and expectant mothers have sufficient protections from redundancy in the workplace.
Consumer Minister Margot James and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are supporting Register My Appliance Day with the Association of Manufacturers and Domestic Appliances (AMDEA).
Audit exemptions changes in 2012 are estimated to have brought about millions of pounds worth of savings for SMEs.
A review looking at the uses of limited partnerships in the UK has been launched.
Ten of the most bizarre excuses used by unscrupulous bosses found to have underpaid workers the National Minimum Wage have been revealed.
Sir David Metcalf has been named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement.
Sir Brendan Barber has been reappointed as chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Council.
Business ministers will be visiting independent businesses in their constituencies this weekend, in celebration of Small Business Saturday.
The government has set out measures to increase transparency of payment practices to support small firms.
The Taylor review on modern employment practices launches with a regional tour to discuss the UK’s labour market.
Business Minister Margot James speaks at the launch of the independent report by Sir Philip Hampton and Dame Helen Alexander.
A new legal protection for whistleblowers applying for jobs in the children’s social care sector has been announced.
The first meeting of a working group set up to deliver urgent recommendations to improve the safety of white goods has taken place.
A consultation to inform government's next state aid application for funding the Post Office has been launched.
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