Following on from our post last week on new employment rates and limits (click: here), the Presidents of the Employment Tribunals in England & Wales and Scotland have issued guidance updating the so-called Vento bands. The Vento bands provide guidance on the amount of compensation to be awarded by Tribunals for injured feelings in
The annual increases to employment rates and awards are higher than in recent years.
The statutory minimum amounts employers must pay to their staff and maximum awards available at the Employment Tribunal are increasing from 6 April 2022. This is not a surprise, given the annual nature of the increases. What is surprising, though, is
Various pieces of legislation came into force in early April 2019. The common, and unsurprising, theme among all these legislative changes is that they increase the statutory minimum amounts employers must pay to their staff and increase awards available to the Employment Tribunal. We have set out below a summary of these key increases all