It looks deceptively all quiet on the new employment law front, other than the usual April updates to statutory payment rates. However the end of the year could see the biggest shake-up in employment law for years if the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is enacted and comes into force. We are also seeing the Government giving its support to a range of private members’ bills in order to implement a number of earlier policy commitments, which were expected to be included in an Employment Bill.
Employers should prepare for increases on the following dates:
1 April 2023 – National Minimum Wage
• Increase in the national living wage (for workers aged 23 and over) from 9.50 to 10.42 per hour.
• Increase in the national minimum wage for age 21 – 22 from 9.18 to 10.18 per hour.
• Increase in the national minimum wage for age 18 – 20 from 6.83 to 7.49 per hour.
• Increase in the national minimum wage age 16 – 17 from 4.81 to 5.28 per hour.
• Increase in the apprentice rate from 4.81 to 5.28 per hour.
2 April 2023 – family-related statutory pay
• The statutory payment rates for statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay, statutory shared parental pay, and statutory parental bereavement pay, increase from 156.66 to 172.48 per week.
6 April 2023 – statutory sick pay
• The rate of statutory sick pay increases from 99.35 to 109.40 per week.
6 April 2023 – statutory redundancy pay
• The statutory cap on a week...
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