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Tribunal orders Phoenix Healthcare and Rentacar 24/7 to pay unpaid wages

Employee Benefits

An employment tribunal has ruled that Phoenix Healthcare and Rentacar 24/7 must pay £2,912.19 He resorted to recording his working hours on paper, and then sending a photo of this via WhatsApp to his employer Hussein or one of the office team. His employment was then terminated in February 2022. for unpaid wages.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Many aspire to work at companies like Google, not just due to the pay they offer but because there seems to be no dearth of provisions for engaging employee and employer relationships. The focus on employee welfare started post-World War II when retirement and pension plans appeared as the biggest forms of employer care.

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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

In the US (source: US BLS Current Population Survey, quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted 2002 and 2022 extracted June 2022): The employed non-farm labour force age 65 and over has increased by 2.5 times since 2002 Nearly 20% of persons 65 and older is now employed in the labour force Nearly a third of persons aged 65 to 69 is employed 36.4%

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DOL – New Electronic Disclosure Guidance for Pension Plans under ERISA

AssuredPartners

Citing their desire to comply with Executive Order 13847 (08/31/2018) which affirmed the Federal Government’s policy to expand access to workplace retirement plans for American Workers—Federal Regulators understand that complex regulations are a hurdle and a burden for Employers, and that more needs to be done to reduce those burdens.

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These Employment Laws Work to Safeguard Pay Equity for All

HR Digest

Employment laws are constantly evolving and pay equity remains a hot topic of discussion. While stable sounds like a positive word, their research implies that the pay inequality between men and women is similar to the numbers from 2002, with women earning 82 percent of what their male counterparts earn.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

To forestall this eventuality, the majority of North American workers’ compensation jurisdictions adjust periodic payments (sometimes called workers’ compensation pensions or permanent disability payments) to account for increases in the cost of living. This policy, however, is far from universal among US workers’ compensation systems.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

Workplace Insight

One, TauRx, based in a former bus depot, is trying to develop a treatment for Alzheimer’s and has raised over $800m since its founding in 2002. It also laid out changes to planning rules to free-up lab space and create a route for the East West Rail line, to improve connections between Oxford and Cambridge.