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Dame Sara Thornton has responded to the joint Home Office and Defra evaluation and review of the Seasonal Workers Pilot for 2019 which identified a number of issues for migrant workers on the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme.

The May Bank Holiday Weekend will be moved to Thursday 2 June and an additional Bank Holiday on Friday 3 June will create a four-day weekend to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s  Platinum Jubilee - the first time any British monarch has reached this historic milestone. But are you required to give workers additional holiday? It depends on your worker's contract - read on for more information.

A tribunal has ruled that a woman who stopped attending her workplace because she was scared of catching coronavirus was not discriminated against when her employer subsequently stopped paying her.

The 2021 Agricultural Wages Order for Wales, as consulted on in September 2020 and November 2021 is still under consideration by Welsh Ministers. In the interim the current Agriculture Wages Order 2020 will remain in place until a new Order is introduced.

On 19 January, the Prime Minister confirmed that Plan B measures in England will expire on 26 January and we will return to Plan A measures in our national response to the Omicron Covid-19 variant:

A man has admitted exploiting a vulnerable worker who lived in a six-foot shed on a caravan park for 40 years.

Estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK.