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With changes to the Employment Act 2006 coming in from 1^st April 2024, we have updated our literature accordingly.

Guides:

A guide to Zero hours contracts

Itemised Pay Statements

Writ…

Sadly there have been  a number of businesses either closing or downsizing in recent weeks.

If you are impacted by this in anyway, either as an employee or an employer, and have any questio…

New Minimum Wage Rates

Tynwald has recently approved the following rates, to come into effect from 1 April 2022:

We’ve had a lot of queries about annual leave recently and thought it would be helpful to issue a brief update covering the two main issues we have been asked about.  This is probably becaus…

The Isle of Man Employment and Equality Tribunal issues "best practice" guidance in regards to Payslips.

Employers have had to issue an itemised pay statement to employees when they get pai…

The Annual Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2020.

Tynwald has approved the Regulations which will come into force on 7th June 2020.

The Amendment to the Regs.  will apply where a worker has n…

The overall guidance remains that employers must take necessary steps for all employees to be able to work from home, and working from home should be promoted where possible.

In light of th…

Employers and their staff have a joint responsibility to ensure that everyone in work is able to work safely. This is of particular interest at the moment, as more businesses begin to open a…

Most of the team are working from home and there is only one person going into the office. When that person is in, they can only answer the phone one call at a time.

So, if you are calling …

We are receiving a significant number of enquiries around Coronavirus and therefore have produced some information below around making changes to contracts of employment.

We will frequen…

Would you like some free training on the Equality Act?

If so then please let us know as we are going to deliver an overview of the Act starting in early January to cover the following:-

New Minimum Wage Rates

Tynwald has recently approved the following rates, to come into effect from 1 October 2019:

With the introduction of the first protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2017, as of the 1st January 2019 the Employment Tribunal is now known as Employment and Equality Tribunal.

T…

New Minimum Wage Rates

Tynwald has recently approved the following rates, to come into effect from 1 October 2018:

Protecting an employer's reputation.

Employees, whether the public face of an organisation or behind the scenes are clearly the key to an employer's reputation i.e. how it is perceived b…

From 1st June 2017 the minimum rates will be as follows.

For a worker:

• Aged 25 years and over - £7.50
• aged 21 years and over - £7.20
• aged 21 or over, receiving training accredited by t…

With effect from the 1st August 2016, increases have been made to the maximum amount of a weeks pay and to the maximum amount of the compensatory award in Employment Tribunal claims for unfa…

In October 2015 the Employment Act was changed to make it unlawful for an employer to deduct the cost or to receive payment for a work permit fee from an employee. The change means that an e…

Zero hours contracts normally mean there is no obligation for employers to offer work, or for workers to accept it.

Most zero hours contracts will give staff 'worker' employment status.

Ze…

From October 2015 it is unlawful for an employer to deduct money from an employees wages or to receive payment from an employee in regard to a work permit fee.

This means that even if you h…