Save the date - UK employment law changes and key dates
12 March 2024
What's on the horizon? Helping to make sure you don't miss the upcoming changes to employment laws and key dates.
Just click on the links below to save these key dates to your calendar.
Key Dates
1 APRIL
- National Minimum and Living Wage rates increase (including the Apprentice Rate) and the National Living Wage will now apply to workers aged 21 and over.
1 APRIL
- Changes to holiday pay for irregular and part year workers.
1 APRIL
- Abolition of Shortage Occupation List and the introduction of the new Immigration Salary List (exact date to be confirmed).
4 APRIL
- Changes to minimum salary requirements for skilled workers.
4 APRIL
- The deadline for publishing gender pay gap data as at the snapshot date of 5 April 2023 (for private and voluntary sector employers with at least 250 employees).
6 APRIL
- The maximum week's pay used to calculate statutory redundancy payments will increase from £643 to £700.
6 APRIL
- Changes to unfair dismissal limits come into effect.
6 APRIL
- Prescribed rate of statutory sick pay increases from £109.40 per week to £116.75 per week.
6 APRIL
- Changes to the right to request flexible working come into effect.
6 APRIL
- Carer's leave introduced.
6 APRIL
- Changes to redundancy protections for family leave returners.
7 APRIL
- Increases to the prescribed rates of statutory shared parental pay, maternity pay, paternity pay, adoption pay and parental bereavement pay from £172.48 per week to £184.03 per week.
1 JULY
- Changes to TUPE consultation obligations introduced for small transfers.
1 SEPTEMBER
- Right to make Predictable Working request introduced (exact date to be confirmed).
26 OCTOBER
- New duty for employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of employees is introduced.
Further Information
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