Employment and pensions

Welcome to our latest Coffee Break looking at the latest legal and practical developments impacting employers

Looking ahead to 2023: Supreme Court ruling on holiday pay and pipeline of legislative reforms

2022 has been a year of continuing uncertainty as businesses address the pandemic, political turmoil at home and abroad, and wider economic concerns. While we have seen some limited statutory regulation introduced this year, for example around strike rules and exclusivity clauses, 2023 looks set to see a number of proposed reforms potentially progressed through Parliament – albeit in many cases through private members' bills (some of which have been backed by the government).

These reforms include:

• Extending the statutory right to request flexible working to all employees from day one of employment, alongside some changes to the current rules around making statutory requests (Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill 2022-23);
• A new right for carers to take a week's unpaid leave in a 12 month period to care for a dependant with a long-term care need (Carer's Leave Bill 2022-2023);
• A right to one week's leave where a child receives neonatal care (Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill 2022-23);
• Extending the existing rules providing specific protection on redundancy during maternity, adoption and/or shared parental leave, to those who are pregnant, and for an 18 month period after an employee returns from maternity, adoption and/or shared...

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