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The news broken by the BBC Panorama investigation about refugees and children alleged to be working in Turkey on clothes for Marks and Spencer and ASOS, whatever the facts are found to be, highlights the challenge of supply chain management and risk to big brands of being linked with such accusations.

Back in February we reported that the EAT had dismissed an appeal from British Gas against the finding that the Working Time Regulations can be interpreted so as to be compatible with the EU Working Time Directive, with the effect that results-based commission payments should be included in the calculation of holiday pay.

Compliance with the National Minimum Wage is a legal obligation, make sure you are in the know and don’t fall foul of the law.

In the news this week, it was announced that seventeen homeworkers are to sue both Sevacare and Haringey Borough Council over an alleged failure to pay national minimum wage.

Since it was announced in the July 2015 Budget, the National Living Wage (NLW) has received much comment, both negative and positive.

Following its announcement in this year’s Budget that some benefits-in-kind (provided via salary sacrifice schemes) will start to attract tax and NI contributions, the Government has launched a Consultation to gain a wider understanding of the impact this could have.

In July last year, we reported that the Government had launched a consultation on simplifying the tax treatment of termination payments. After some delay, it has finally published its response along with draft legislation which sets out the changes it has decided to make.

Labour leadership candidates Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith go head to head on employment law reform in a race to become, (or in Jeremy Corbyn’s case, remain) the next Labour leader.

A feature of current times is stress of uncertainty, with justification of course as national and global events seem to be increasingly unpredictable and destabilising.

The European Court of Justice has recently reaffirmed, in the case of in Sobczyszyn v Skola Podstawowa w Rzeplinie, that where a worker is unable to take their annual leave before the end of the holiday year due to sickness they will be entitled to carry it over to the following holiday year.