Senior solicitor Andrea Corr, in leading Thames Valley law firm Blandy & Blandy’s Employment Law team, summarises changes coming into effect from April 2022 that will affect both employers and employees.
From 1 April 2022, both the National Living Wage (those aged 23 and over) and the National Minimum Wage (for those aged 16 – 22) are to increase. The new hourly rates and increases are as follows:-
Family Leave
For statutory family leave, which encompasses Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) and Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) the weekly rates will increase to 156.66 per week (from 151.97) on 3 April 2022 (the first Sunday in April).
Statutory Sick Pay
All eligible employees (and some workers) are entitled to receive Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). From 6 April 2022, the rate will increase to 99.35 per week (from 96.35). For eligibility purposes, the lower earnings limit (LEL) will increase from 120 to 123 per week; this will represent the first increase to the LEL for two years.
Statutory Redundancy Pay
The cap on the value of a week’s pay, which is used to calculate Statutory Redundancy Pay for employees earning above that amount, will increase to 571 per week (from 544) with effect from 6 April 20222.
The overall maximum Statutory Redundancy Pay, based on 20 years’ service at an age multiplier of 1.5, therefore increases to 17,130 (from 16,320).
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