| 1 | Auto-enrolment and new employer pension duties: a quick ... The main points about new legal requirements that mean all employers in the UK must automatically enrol eligible jobholders in a pension scheme from a date after 1 October 2012. Under a five-and-a-half-year staging process, employers must enrol eligible jobholders in a qualifying pension scheme or the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), unless they are already members of a qualifying scheme. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Auto-enrolment and new employer pension duties: overview This practice note gives an overview of the employer pension reforms that came into force on 30 June 2012 and will eventually require all UK employers to auto-enrol eligible workers in a pension scheme and make mandatory minimum contributions. The note summarises the key employer pension duties and looks at how implementation of the reforms is being staged over several years. It explains which workers are eligible for auto-enrolment, the right to opt out of a scheme once a jobholder has been auto-enrolled and the right of a worker not eligible for auto-enrolment to opt in. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Auto-enrolment and new employer pension duties: toolkit A toolkit to direct users to the PLC Pensions materials dealing with legal and practical issues arising in relation to the pension auto-enrolment reforms. The toolkit covers key action points that employers should take to prepare for the new regime. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Bonus toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key materials on PLC relating to bonuses. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Joint Employment: Overview This Note provides an overview of joint employer relationships. It discusses the tests applied to determine whether a joint employer relationship exists under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). It also discusses the risks of being a joint employer and related best practices. It addresses federal law, but will be useful to employers in all states. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Pay and benefits: toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key maintained PLC content on pay and benefits, including links to all the relevant materials. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 7 | Pension rights on a TUPE transfer: a quick guide A quick, practical guide for practitioners advising on how to deal with the pensions rights of employees subject to a business transfer. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 8 | Wage and Hour Claims Toolkit Resources to help employers comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), prevent and defend against wage and hour litigation, and respond to the US Department of Labor (DOL) wage and hour audits. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 9 | Wage and Hour Law: Overview This Note provides an overview of employers' rights and obligations under federal wage and hour law, governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). This Note addresses federal law. For information on state law requirements, see the State Q&A Tool under Related Content to the right. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 10 | Are you looking for EU law content on this topic? A practice note explaining where to find EU law content from a topic page. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Auto-enrolment: a guide to using the Pensions Regulator's ... A guide to the standard-form employer letter templates published by the Pensions Regulator. The templates are intended to enable an employer to discharge its statutory duty to provide information to its workers about pension auto-enrolment. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | Bonuses A note explaining the possible types of bonus scheme, the obligations to disclose directors' bonus arrangements, corporate governance issues relevant to bonuses, and bonus issues on termination of employment. It also deals with equal opportunities issues, including the effect of maternity leave on bonus entitlement. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Child Labor Law A Note discussing child labor law under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its implementing regulations. This Note addresses federal law regulating the employment of minors. For information on state law requirements, see the State Q&A Tool under Related Content to the right. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Compensable Time A Practice Note discussing increasingly common class actions based on an employer’s failure to recognize and count certain hours worked as compensable. It outlines how employers should minimize risk, paying particular attention to those employee activities that are most frequently the subject of litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) and Portal-to-Portal Act. The Note also suggests that employers should review their own practices, to become aware of the various jurisdiction-specific factors that help determine whether those tasks should be compensated. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | Conducting an Internal Wage and Hour Audit A Note addressing wage and hour audits under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This Note addresses preliminary issues private employers should consider, common wage and hour issues to evaluate, options for responding to problems discovered during the audit and best practices going forward after the audit. For information on requirements under state wage and hour laws, see the State Q&A Tool under Related Content to the right. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 16 | Defending Wage and Hour Collective Actions A Practice Note discussing the key issues employers face in defending wage and hour collective actions brought under Section 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (29 U.S.C. § 216(b)). This Note also covers state-law class actions brought under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). For more information on state law wage and hour requirements, see the State Q&A Tool under Related Content to the right. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 17 | Employment issues on pensions auto-enrolment A note considering the employment law implications of new requirements to automatically enrol eligible jobholders in a pension scheme from October 2012. In particular, the note summarises the different categories of worker and how they are affected by auto-enrolment and the requirements for employers to comply with their auto-enrolment duties. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 18 | FAQ: How do share options work? A selection of common questions asked about share options. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 19 | Independent Contractor Classification A Note explaining the independent contractor classification, including the benefits of the classification and the penalties for misclassification. This note addresses federal law. For information on state law requirements, see the State Q&A Tools under Related Content to the right. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 20 | Interns, Trainees and Volunteers A Note addressing interns, trainees and volunteers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This Note discusses the proper classification of interns, trainees and volunteers under the FLSA, including when they must be paid and best practices for private, for-profit employers. This Note addresses federal law. For information on requirements under state law, see the State Q&A Tool under related content to the right. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 21 | Maternity pay and benefits A practice note dealing with pay and benefits during maternity leave, including statutory maternity pay (SMP), contractual maternity pay, pay rises, bonuses, pensions and other contractual entitlements. For detailed information on other aspects of pregnancy and maternity leave, see Practice note, Pregnancy and maternity leave: the legal framework. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 22 | National minimum wage A note on the national minimum wage covering who is entitled to the NMW, how to determine whether the NMW has been paid, including what does and does not count towards NMW pay, and how working time is measured for the purposes of the NMW. The note also deals with the penalties for failure to pay the NMW and the remedies available to workers who have not been paid the NMW. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 23 | Pensions for employment lawyers An outline of the pensions issues that may be encountered by employment lawyers in their practice. The note explains the various types of pension schemes and their tax treatment, as well as looking at the pensions aspects of transactions. Links are also given to further practice notes dealing with pensions in the employment contract, compensation for pension loss, changing pensions terms and discrimination in providing pensions. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 24 | Pensions in the employment contract This practice note looks at the typical provisions in an employment contract that relate to pensions and the legal issues that arise when employers want to make changes to pensions terms. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 25 | Pensions issues on a TUPE transfer A note on the issues that arise in relation to pension arrangements on a relevant transfer which is subject to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006. For a discussion of the case law affecting this area, see Practice note, TUPE: pensions cases. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 26 | Revised remuneration code: frequently asked questions A revised version of the remuneration code, then part of the Handbook of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) came into force on 1 January 2011. This note sets out key information about the revised code in a set of frequently asked questions. This note is not maintained and relates to the revised FSA code as it stood in 2011. Since 1 April 2013, the remuneration code (which is still SYSC 19A) has been part of the Handbooks of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). A new practice note on the current remuneration code is under development. | Practice notes | 21-Jun-2011 |
| 27 | Salary sacrifice arrangements This practice note is a guide to the use of salary and bonus sacrifice arrangements. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 28 | The Fluctuating Workweek Method of Paying Overtime under ... A Note addressing the fluctuating workweek method of calculating overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This Note addresses requirements for using the fluctuating workweek method, how to calculate overtime using the fluctuating workweek method, and using the fluctuating workweek method to calculate damages in wage and hour misclassification cases. This Note addresses federal law. For information on requirements under state wage and hour law, see the State Q&A Tool under related content to the right. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 29 | Unlawful deductions from wages This note outlines the protection given to workers in relation to deductions from their wages under the Employment Rights Act 1996 and explores some of the key issues raised by the legislation. | Practice notes | Maintained |