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Rate | NMW Rate April 2023 | Annual Increase | Annual Increase |
National Living Wage ( 23 and over) | £10.42 | £0.92 | 9.7% |
21 – 22-Year-old rate | £10.18 | £1.00 | 10.9% |
18–20-Year-old rate | £7.49 | £0.66 | 9.7% |
16 – 17-Year-old rate | £5.28 | £0.47 | 9.7% |
Apprentice rate | £5.28 | £0.47 | 9.7% |
Accommodation offset | £9.10 | £0.40 | 4.6% |
Photos from the humanitarian trip to the Ukrainian women’s and children’s shelter in Poland Tommy Sprangle made last week.
Tommy is hoping to plan another trip in October before winter starts and donations of Christmas presents for the children and food are desperately needed as well as sanitary products, Nappies, etc.
A Big Thank you to everyone who has donated it was much appreciated by everyone back at the hostel.
If you would like to donate Please contact us on 07968 408817 or email [email protected].
Since Covid hit us the home office took a temporary change to the way employers were able to legally check right to work documents. These temporary measures will be ending in September so here is what you need to know to ensure from the 1st of October 2022, you are compliant with your employee right to work checks.
So what documents are you able to accept as part of your right to work checks?
I have included a link below which includes a full list of the right to work documents which are accepted by the home office to confirm an employee’s right to work.
Ensure when checking documents, you see the original and take a copy of the original right to work document, signing the document to confirm you have seen the original and dating the photocopy to confirm when you completed this check.
What if they do not have the correct documents or if I am still not sure if the documents are legit?
If after checking the documents you are still not 100% sure or if candidates are not able to provide original documents, then its worth using the link below.
You can make use of the home office employer checking service which will be able to assist in confirming if your employee or prospective employee as the right to work, using the link below.
Home office employer checking service:
https://www.gov.uk/employee-immigration-employment-status
My Employee has a share code, what do I need to do next?
If your employee or prospective employee has a share code, you simply can check the government website using the share code and it will be able to provide if that person has the right to work.
Once you have checked online. Print the confirmation and save within your employee records to confirm you have carried out the check or save digitally.
Check Share code:
https://www.gov.uk/view-right-to-work
So, what exactly is changing from the 1st of October?
During Covid the government put temporary measures in place to assist employers being able to check right to work documents remotely. This involved employer being able to check right to work documents over video call with the employee holding up the right to work document to the camera on a video call and sending a photocopy / photo to the employer for their records.
From the 1st of October this will stop, and employers will no longer be able to check the right to work documents without seeing the original in person or without using a IDSP service which is a third-party service provider which can check an employee’s right to work on your behalf.
Going forward there will be 3 ways you are able to confirm a candidate’s right to work to ensure you are compliant.
If checking documents from List A, you will not need to do any further checks on the individual. If checking documents from List B you will need to ensure you do, follow up checks to ensure the individual continues to have eligibility to work.
A list of home office approved providers at the link below.
Ensure you retain a copy of the digital right to work check for the duration of the individual’s employment and 2 years after this.
https://www.gov.uk/employee-immigration-employment-status
Where a right to work check has been conducted using the services of an IDSP on British and Irish citizens, a continuous statutory excuse will have been established and there is no requirement to see the documents listed above or to carry out a follow up check.
Where a right to work check has been conducted using the Home Office online service, the information is provided in real-time directly from home Office systems and there is no requirement to see the documents listed above.
Hopefully you are all up to speed but if you ae still not up to speed or want to have a chat with us on checking an employee’s right to work, then get in touch and we would be more than happy to assist.
3.8% or 1.29 million people were unemployed, a decrease from the previous quarter.
Record level of employment at 75.9%
8.7 million people are economically inactive, down 144.000 from the last quarter
Unemployment levels among young people remain high but have decreased to below pre- pandemic levels and decreased in the quarter (16-17 =21.3%/ 18-24 =9.1%
Vacancies continue to increase – up to 6,900 tp 1,294against the previous quarter and an increase of 498,000 from pre-pandemic.
Early estimates indicate 29.6 million payrolled employees in June, a rise of 874,000 people over the last 12 months and well above the pre-pandemic level.
Redundancies decreased slightly to a record low of 1.8 per thousand employees
Labour Market statistics
◼ 1.29 million people were unemployed, down on the previous quarter and slightly down on February 2020
◼ Long term unemployed has fallen to a record low
◼ Unemployment levels in young people have decreased to below pre-pandemic levels (16-17=22% / 18- 24=9.9%)
◼ 5.6 million people were claiming Universal Credit, of which 1.6 million were searching for work
◼ Vacancies increased to a record level of 1,288,000, an increase of 492,400 from pre-pandemic levels
◼ Payrolled employees increased to 29.6 million, 4.9% higher than March 2021
◼ Economically inactive rate has increased to 8.86 million, 487,000 higher than February 2020, driven by a rise in the over 50s
◼ Level of redundancies increased slightly to 2.7 per thousand employees well below pre-pandemic levels
National living wage – £9.50
21 to 22 Year old – £9.18
18 to 20 years old- £6.83
16 to 17 years old £4.81
Apprentice rate – £4.81
We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of the local community and our clients for the support they have given us. Our shipment is on its way and we have been busy sorting and packing again today. We are only receiving medicines, toiletries, Bandages, Ladies’ underwear, Children’s underwear, Toys, Batteries, Thank you once again Di & Team.