What's New?

As well as protecting people in work from being subjected to prohibited conduct to do with a protected characteristic the Equality Act has amended the following Acts:

• the Redundancy Payments Act 1990
• the Shops Act 2000,
• the Minimum Wage Act 2001,
• the Employment Act 2006
• the Control of Employment Act 2014

Some of the amendments are related to the main equality provisions while others are not.

On 1st January 2019 the Employment and Equality Tribunal (EET) replaced the existing Employment Tribunal. The new Tribunal will continue to deal with complaints under the Island's employment statutes, such as the Employment Act 2006 and it will also deal with complaints under the Equality Act 2017. Permissible complaints under the Equality Act comprise not only complaints about employment but also complaints about the provision of goods and services, premises, education etc. To this end new Tribunal Rules have been made which came operation on 1 January 2019.

On 1 October 2018, the Minimum Wage was increased. In particular there is now one rate payable to all workers over the age of 18 (except development workers), which is £7.85 per hour. The rate for those aged over the compulsory school leaving age, but under 18 will now be £5.85 per hour. Development workers will be paid £6.95 per hour.

Minimum Wage (Single Hourly Rate) Regulations 2018

Minimum Wage (Young Workers) Regulations 2018