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August 2018
Hello there!
Welcome to the August Mentor monthly round-up. Here’s our summary of the other important and relevant new stories we’ve shared this month. If you find them helpful, please follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter, so that these, and other useful stories will go straight to your news feed. We want to make sure we’re sharing the things that you want to know about. So, if there’s something you want to hear from Mentor’s range of experts about, please email us at info@mentor.uk.com |
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Best regards
The Mentor Team
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Apprenticeship starts down by a third
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The number of people starting an apprenticeship fell by 34% in the academic year 2017/18, prompting calls for an “urgent reassessment” of the system. |
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Holiday pay and term-time workers: the 12.07% challenge
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Full-time workers should be treated less favourably than term-time workers when calculating holiday pay, according to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), as in the recent case of Brazel v the Harpur Trust. |
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Business committee calls for smaller companies to publish gender pay gap
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The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has published a report calling for the gender pay gap reporting initiative to be extended to include firms with 50 employees or more. |
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Pensions: the state of play
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The ageing workforce can't be put out to pasture just yet, and employers are having to shoulder some of the pensions burden.
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New manslaughter sentencing guidelines increase jail terms
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Employers found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after a workplace fatality are likely to face stiffer jail terms under a new guideline published by the Sentencing Council. |
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Immigration: a necessity for British business?
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With Brexit set for March 2019, we take a look at what businesses in hospitality, farming and technology think it will mean for them. |
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