1 June, 2012 · 1:56 pm
New publications – May 2012
- BIS Guidance on the Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act, which suspends restrictions on Sunday trading hours for large shops in England and Wales for the duration of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games and shortens the usual notice period that must be given by employees to opt out of Sunday working.
- Guide on apprentices, including how an employer should go about finding funding, recruiting, developing and evaluating apprentices, published by the Chartered Insurance Institute.
- Acas guide on how to handle difficult conversations.
- HMRC has published its risk assessment guidelines used to check compliance with IR35. It has also published a joint consultation paper with HM Treasury proposing that organisations which engage “controlling persons” (persons with control over a significant proportion of the organisation’s employees and/or budget) should be required to deduct tax and national insurance contributions under PAYE from payments to such persons. The consultation ends on 16 August 2012.
- A new HS client briefing on boardroom diversity and positive action is available here. On the same topic, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has this week published a report produced by Cranfield University on the board appointment process, the role of executive search agencies and gender-related obstacles.
