HR Over The Years

As we celebrate international HR day on 20th May 2024, Croner looks back on the key policy changes that have happened throughout the years which has shaped how employers have supported/changed when it comes to staff management. 

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HR changes in 2020 

• CEO pay gap 
• Good work plan laws come into place 
• Pandemic starts 

HR changes in 2021 

• New immigration law 
• The end of the furlough scheme 
• The return of gender pay gap reporting 
• New IR35 requirements 
• More companies to produce modern slavery statements 
• Extended redundancy protection for pregnant employees 

HR changes in 2022

• Increase to the minimum wage and other statutory rates 
• Gender pay gap reporting 
• COVID-related changes 
• Flexible working 
• Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting 
• Data protection 
• Sexual harassment 
• Right-to-work checks 
• Modern Slavery Statement

HR changes in 2023 

• Statutory pay increases 

• Statutory Sick Pay. 
• Statutory Maternity
• Statutory Paternity
• Statutory Adoption
• Statutory Shared Parental
• Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay
• Lower Earnings Limit
• National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage
• Unfair Dismissal

• Flexible working bill 
• Tips law 
• Extra bank holiday 
• Gender pay gap reporting 

HR changes in 2024 

• Working time and holiday 
• Illegal workers 
• National Living Wage 
• Carer’s leave 
• Flexible working 
• Redundancy and pregnancy 
• Statutory payments increase 
• Transfer of undertakings 
• Allocation of Tips 
• Neonatal care leave (Expected October 2024)
• Harassment (Expected October 2024)
• Stable and predictable contracts (Expected Autumn 2024)
• Pensions (Expected in 2024)

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